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...younger win. Dawson is the legend riding off into the sunset; McLeod is the young challenger taking aim at his new record two years down the line. Polhemus is a talented and mobile (and scandal-touched) junior signal-caller like O’Hagan, but lags behind the Crimson starter in big-game polish. Harvard head coach Tim Murphy and Bulldogs skipper Jack Siedlecki, assistants together at Lafayette in the early 80’s, have three and a half Ancient Eight titles between them; Murphy has three of those.Upstart Yale, however, picked fifth in the preseason media poll...
...learn from its mistakes in tight situations and use its experience to its advantage. “We all know that this is our last year so we’re not going to be distracted,” said senior Siddharth Suchde, Harvard’s first position starter. “You really know when to focus more, and during what parts of the year [the matches are more crucial],” Oren said. “In the past we would lose some really close games, but this year I think [our experience] is going...
...wide receiver D.J. Shooter ’07—whose overtime fumble tarnished the memory of a sparkling first-quarter touchdown in last year’s loss to Harvard—or McCarthy, a four-year starter, or the much-maligned Siedlecki, tomorrow may be about redemption...
...well. Once again, his actions speak of the consistency and hard work that are a model for his teammates.“I don’t think we’ve had a bad snap in the thirty or so games that he’s been the starter,” Murphy says.Harvard will be counting on Fernandez’s sure-handedness when it takes on Yale tomorrow.Fernandez will need to be on top of his game, protecting quarterback Liam O’Hagan and newly-crowned rushing king Clifton Dawson from the Bulldogs defense. Fernandez...
...Crimson has plenty of talent in sophomore guards Emily Tay and Niki Finelli and junior guard Lindsay Hallion. They also have experience in co-captain Kyle Dalton, and potential in junior guard Jessica Knox. The numbers are there where the experience is not: Hallion is the only returning starter in the backcourt, and she missed all of her first season with a torn ACL.This young Harvard squad—the Crimson has just two seniors on the roster, and five of the team’s 12 players are sophomores—inherits an Ivy League that graduated all three...