Word: sloppyness
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Perhaps the greatest sign for this year's Crimson was the efficiency in clears out of the backfield. Sloppy transition out of the defensive end plagued Harvard all of last year, especially towards the end of the season when the team dropped seven straight to finish at 3-10.
"It's always tough against a team like Yale to play to your opponent's level," Catlin said. "It was a sloppy game, but we played much better against Princeton."
The end result of the injuries and sloppy play on both offense and defense was a 15-8 Roger Williams win in the first game.
The first five minutes of Friday's game were split evenly between the two teams, with sloppy play on both sides and neither team controlling much of the play, but Crimson superiority was clearly evident before the first period was even halfway over.
The Quakers (16-7, 7-2) were in the driver's seat after a 78-76 win over Harvard on Feb. 11 made them the only unbeaten Ivy team. But Penn has struggled in its three games since then. Completely drained from the game against the Crimson, Penn was sloppy...