Word: stretch
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...Vermont, respectively. The Crimson quickly demonstrated its desire to take the game to the Rams, albeit a tad bit anxiously—Harvard drew three offsides calls in the first fifteen minutes. “Coach wanted us to start off by trying to get in behind them and stretch the defense,” junior forward Andre Akpan said. “But they had eight or nine players back and it wasn’t a very big field, it was very difficult to find spaces.URI’s defensive formation forced Harvard head coach Jamie Clark...
...this girl score.’” The tie is all the more impressive considering Harvard’s recent schedule of games. The Crimson has now played four games in just one week, traveling from coast to coast, California to Boston, to complete this grueling stretch. But the Crimson battled through, going 2-1-1 over the week in an effort indicative of the team’s endurance and confidence. “We’re showing a lot of toughness to go through the stretch that we have had,” Harvard coach...
...hard we need to work to get to the next level,” co-captain Chris Clayton said. “All the guys were playing well and rallying fine, but we need to work on closing out points, especially ones that we’ve worked to stretch out.” No. 69 Clayton notched an impressive personal win, beating No. 12 Nate Schnugg of Georgia 6-4, 6-2, a win sure to boost his confidence and aggressiveness. Harvard’s players ran out of steam as matches progressed, losing just enough consistency, pace...
...nationalist, he failed to see the roots of Bolshevik violence in the repressive habits of his beloved prelapsarian Romanov Russia. And his smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic nationhood. Any honest obituary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn must take into account his shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian...
...stay cohesive and on the same page as a group.”But both she and Leone focused on the offensive side of the ball as the one that most wants progress—and the one that should see steady improvement as the Crimson begins a stretch of four games in the next eight days. Harvard will host Davidson today and Wisconsin Sunday at Ohiri Field. The Wildcats have earned ties in each of their last three games, while the Badgers are riding a four-game win streak and are coming off an overwhelming 4-1 win over...