Word: tailbacks
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...junior tailback cut up the left side, spun out of a tackle, and found open grass. He made it past the first-down marker and kept running, carrying the ball to the Harvard 49. And just like that, the Crimson was in control...
...fourth and four midway through the fourth quarter, the Crimson, down 10-0 and back at its own 30, decided to go for it. After wasting its first two downs on incomplete passes and with the third good for only six yards, Harvard turned to junior tailback Gino Gordon—the team’s leading rusher for the past two seasons...
...fourth quarter, Harvard’s defense had finally figured out Yale sophomore tailback Alex Thomas, as sophomore Sumner Webster and senior Ryan Barnes had thwarted his past two attempts. Yale was stuck at fourth and 22 on its own 25-yard line...
...captain Jordan Culbreath, the league’s top returning tailback, went down in Week 2 when a sprained ankle led to a diagnosis of aplastic anemia, and co-captain linebacker Scott Britton was felled in Week 5 by a season-ending knee injury...
Harvard also didn’t take many risks with its play-calling, sticking mainly to runs up the middle from its tailback tandem of junior Gino Gordon and freshman Treavor Scales to move the ball up the field, a strategy that wasn’t as successful as it had been throughout the season...