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When Harvard coach Tim Murphy picked his cornerbacks at the start of 2003, Keith Howell didn’t crack the starting lineup. Or the second string. When Murphy scoured his roster for depth when both his starters—Gary Sonkur and Benny Butler—fell victim to injury, he didn’t call Howell’s name. And when Murphy looked ahead to his defensive backfield of the future, Howell wasn’t one of the rising stars likely to make an impact...
...junior cornerback’s skills haven’t been honed in the past year. They have. But almost overshadowing that improvement has been the enormous growth in Howell’s confidence. And Murphy has certainly taken notice, promoting Howell above Sonkur and Danny Tanner, Butler’s primary backup last season...
Howell, who lines up opposite Sonkur, will have to if the Crimson secondary is to maintain the level at which it played last season. Butler, whom Harvard lost to graduation and Howell now replaces, was a first-team All-Ivy selection and the crux of an over-worked pass defense...
...Harvard’s cornerbacks, Keith Howell (6’0) and Gary Sonkur (5’9), cede fewer inches to opposing wide receivers than Crimson defensive backs have in the past, making O’Neil’s margin for error even smaller than last year, when Sonkur and Benny Butler ’04 (5’8) prowled the defensive backfield...
Freshman Danny Tanner is the odds-on favorite to slide into Butler’s position after seeing time in eight contests last year, including starts when Sonkur and Butler were hobbled by injury in the second-half of the season, but sophomore Keith Howell and freshman Raffael DeLuca drew mention from Murphy as possible candidates to watch...