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...Making those losing streaks so painful for the players is how easily avoidable they have been. The 2005-06 team’s skid began with two last-second losses to Cornell and Princeton, while two years ago, the Crimson fell to Princeton in double overtime despite 33 points from Housman as the first of its five straight losses...
...contention at season’s end, the team must avoid the long losing streaks that have plagued the team in Ivy play. Two years ago, Harvard dropped five straight games in February, while last season, it lost seven in a row on top of another seven game skid in non-league play. The pressure falls to the three seniors to keep the team strong should adversity arise this year, but they know what needs to be done...
...Harvard field hockey team traveled to Hanover, N.H. on Saturday to face Dartmouth in its penultimate game of the season. The Crimson had won the last four meetings in Hanover and looked to snap a current four-game losing skid. The contest, which featured a total of only five shots on net, was a defensive struggle, but the Big Green (6-9, 4-2 Ivy) broke through on a penalty stroke late in the second half to defeat the Crimson (6-10, 2-4 Ivy), 1-0, on Dartmouth’s Senior Day. Most of the game was marked...
...uncertainty among our number, though, might be borrowed from the Quakers, say, rather than the Catholic Church. At present, we offer occasional confessional attempts at self-correction—from Room 13 counseling to the Writing Center, and other very worthy resources—aimed at slowing an errant skid off our prescribed upward track...
...When presenting suggestions, anything parents can do to emphasize more immediate payoffs will be more effective," he says. To persuade a teen to quit drinking, for example, he suggests stressing something immediate and tangible - the danger of getting kicked off the football team, say - rather than a future on skid...