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Still, losing its title hopes did not dampen the excitement for Crimson football. With the 126th playing of The Game left on the slate, Harvard ensured a memorable closure to the 2009 season. After spotting Yale a 10-0 lead through three quarters, the Crimson orchestrated a furious comeback—punctuated by a pair deep touchdown passes from Winters to senior Matt Luft and junior Chris Lorditch—that left the crowd at the Yale Bowl in shock. With Winters’ pair of bombs and a little help from a questionable fake punt call by the Bulldogs...
After the nonconference slate ended, attention turned to the race for the Ivy League title. With perhaps the strongest field in its history, the Ancient Eight had three contenders—all of which won at least 21 games—in Cornell, Princeton, and Harvard. The Crimson cruised in most of its 10 conference wins, with an 82-79 overtime thriller at Yale and a 67-66 comeback at Penn as the only tight contests...
...team still has the historic Harvard-Yale Regatta, the IRA national championships, and a trip for the varsity and freshman eights to the Henley Royal Regatta in England ahead on its slate...
...there's more: a Slate magazine article dating from 2000 (with which Blumenthal cooperated) reports that Blumenthal served as captain of the swim team during his time at the College—except, as the Times reports, Blumenthal wasn't on the swim team and made no effort to correct Slate's erroneous claim...
...qualify for Nationals, each team had to take on long-standing area rivals at the New England Regional tournament last weekend. To make the Nationals cut, each team had to place within the top two in the region. The Red Line swept its slate, which featured Tufts and Middlebury—both of whom got the upper hand earlier in the season. With the sweep, the Red Line can expect its highest-ever bid in the postseason. Quasar polished off Stonehill and Tufts—both of whom also beat Quasar in the regular season—clinching its first...