Word: tailback
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Last week—one day before the Crimson trounced Stony Brook, 41-17, in its first scrimmage—Murphy emphasized the need to approach the season one game at a time and affirmed his commitment to 5’3 junior Nick Palazzo as his starting tailback...
After Palazzo, the Crimson have only a pair of unknowns, sophomore Nick Carrington and freshman Mike Montgomery, at tailback...
...last weekend of October and Harvard’s perfect season was on life-support as the Crimson trailed the Big Green 21-0 midway through the third quarter. All-Ivy senior quarterback Neil Rose and senior tailback Josh Staph, the team’s leading rusher, were injured and could only look on helplessly as the dream season spiraled into a nightmare. Junior tailback Nick Palazzo was playing with a nagging hamstring injury...
...Crimson scored two plays later when Rose found senior tailback Josh Staph over the middle for a 30-yard TD. The 28 points were enough for the eventual victory, which clinched Harvard’s first Ivy title in four years and the 10th in school history...
...turned out that Uncle Sam did want the lightning quick 150-pound tailback, who was famous for his bullet-like passes—which were said to come at receivers so hard that coaches asked him to ease up when he first joined the Crimson squad...