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...third quarter, scoring on a touchdown plunge by senior running back Clifton Dawson on the opening drive. Junior quarterback Liam O’Hagan then connected with junior Corey Mazza for a 15-yard touchdown that gave Harvard a 28-24 lead. After a series of punts, the Crimson appeared to be driving for an insurance score when, with 6:31 to play in the fourth quarter, a trick-play pass from sophomore wideout Chris Sanders was intercepted. The Tigers promptly drove on the short field, only to face third-and-four at the Crimson 39. A third-down pass...
With tailgates ostensibly shut down by halftime, the Yale Bowl boasted a final attendance of 53,213, the most of any collegiate football game in New England this year...Although the Crimson was 5-of-15 in third-down conversions on the day, it managed to convert on all three of its fourth-down attempts. The Bulldogs, on the other hand, finished the day 10-of-22 on third down...With five straight wins in the Harvard-Yale rivalry, the Crimson now has its longest streak in the 122-year history of the Game...Saturday was not only the first...
...Harvard football team held by overwhelming margin at the end of its game at Columbia on Saturday. The Crimson led or held its own in a few crucial categories—rushing (227 yards to the Lions’ minus-18), total offense (435 yards to 201), and third-down conversions, for example (4-of-8 to 7-of-18). But while the Lions led on passing and dominated on kickoff returns, they rarely had either momentum or field position, thanks to a severe and chronic case of butterfingers. Over the course of the game, Columbia turned the ball over...
...last time the Crimson converted a lower percentage of its third-down chances than its opponent? At Yale on November 22, 2003, the first win in its 13-game streak that ended Saturday...
...Crimson’s aerial futility came in the absence of wide receivers Corey Mazza and Rodney Byrnes, both sidelined with injuries. Where last week O’Hagan had an automatic third-down target in Mazza, this week he had a largely inexperienced receiving corps and a Lehigh defense that stymied Harvard’s running game...