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Over the final 19 games of the year, Harvard went 10-9, including road wins over Cornell and Brown, a win over Princeton, and a home sweep of the Bears and the Bulldogs...
...with calamity, Harvard rallied in the weeks that followed, crushing defending champion Penn, 31-10, to secure the league crown, then routing Yale at home, 35-3, to close its historic run and establish itself as the only class whose members defeated the Bulldogs four years running. (Harvard did sweep Yale from 1912-1915 and 1919-1922 but, because freshmen were not allowed on the varsity at that time, only the members of the Class of 2005 actually won on four occasions...
Freshman Geoff Rathgeber won the 200- and 400-yard individual medleys, Cole swept the 200-, 500-, and 1,650-yard freestyles, and senior James Lawler finished first in the 100- and 200-yard butterflies. With Cromwell’s sweep of the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes, the Crimson left no doubt that Harvard would be a challenger in every race and every distance. Harvard beat Princeton 225-128 and Yale...
...blow not just to the weekend warriors-who were more accustomed to tornado cleanup than fighting-but to their families and Bradford's civic life as well. The town's big projects-to update the water system, jail the local methamphetamine dealers and make a clean sweep of the junk in people's yards-slowly stalled. Given fears for the town's soldiers, it was as if Bradford held its breath for the year they were in combat, hanging on every newscast, every e-mail and call home. "Nothing progressed," says Farrah Chambliss, 28, wife of police chief Josh Chambliss...
...completing a season sweep of Northeast Conference champion Quinnipiac, the Harvard baseball team wrapped up a round of semi-casual warm-ups against the Bobcats and launched towards the NCAA Tournament at full steam...