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...selection show will air tonight at 5:30 on ESPNews, and the Harvard players will be nervously watching and awaiting the results.“I just hope we get a chance to get a chance to make up for this loss, because I feel like we could do special things in the tournament,” Clark said.“Now we just have to wait,” Akpan added. “Hopefully we get lucky.”—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...summer to be the dominant team we all saw perform last November at the Yale Bowl.But in the end, Murphy is right: this isn’t a dominant team. Yes, the Crimson is 8-1 and steps it up where and when it needs to, like on special teams this weekend, something that has plagued it all season. Although that was just about the only area in which Harvard bested its counterpart. But that’s about it. Harvard does the little things it needs to squeak by—a forced fumble...
...midfield. When all was said and done and Harvard escaped with the 24-21 victory, Murphy was just glad to see it end. “Relief,” Murphy said of his emotion after the game. REVERSAL OF FORTUNE Of the three phases of the game, special teams has consistently proven to be Harvard’s Achilles’ heel. But on Saturday, Penn was the one troubled by its kicking unit. “That was a huge part of the game, huge part of the field position game,” Murphy said...
...tight games, how a team’s defense and special teams perform often decides the winner. That was precisely the one-two punch that carried the No. 18 Harvard men’s hockey team (4-2-0, 4-2-0 ECAC) to victory in its 1-0 win over No. 19 St. Lawrence Saturday night at Bright Hockey Center. The most exciting part of the game for the Crimson defense came in the last part of the second period and carried through the intermission into the third. Harvard had committed two penalties and faced...
...Friday night. “I was very pleased with the effort,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “We definitely played more disciplined, stayed out of the box, and it was a team game, as opposed to just a special teams game, and I think it reaped benefits. I really felt that staying out of the box really allowed us to establish a good solid team game.” Consistent play up and down the line contributed to Friday night’s win—four different players scored...