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...yard line with 4:03 remaining in the game. A pair of rushes by Dawson got the Crimson to the Harvard 29, but not without a casualty. Junior wide receiver Corey Mazza went down with an injured ankle after getting tangled up with Dawson as the tailback dove for the first down in traffic, and had to be helped off the field...
Much of the pre-game speculation had been focused on Hartigan, a large, bruising tailback who, like Dawson, is on the Payton Award watch list. The 6’2, 220-lb. back had 115 yards on 29 carries, but managed only four yards per carry and rarely broke for a large gain for a day that his coach Phil Estes deemed “average...
Harvard’s coverages weren’t nearly so favorable to Brown tailback Nick Hartigan, who was limited to 115 yards on 29 carries and no touchdowns. And even those numbers were inflated by two rushes of 18 and 26 yards that obscure precisely how ineffective he was, down-to-down, particularly in the first half, when he managed just 29 yards on 13 carries...
...Junior tailback Clifton Dawson had a bounce in his step as he decelerated in the endzone after cruising in for the two-point conversion to put Harvard up 28-21 and give the Crimson a lead it would not cede...
...Holy Cross offense relied heavily on one man, tailback Steve Silva, whom Harvard effectively contained. Silva rushed for only 37 net yards on 16 carries, with one touchdown. He was a return threat nevertheless, with 69 yards on three kickoff returns...