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After another physical but scoreless first half, much like the Crimson's match-up against Columbia last week, the tide turned for the better...
Harvard's decision to decrease the level of commitment it asks of early applicants goes against the tide of admissions policies at most elite colleges, which have increasingly asked that early applicants show a firm intention to matriculate if accepted...
...hour before the biggest game of his life, Joe Aleffi lay on his back inside the Swarthmore College field house, staring at the ceiling. Aleffi, a senior running back for Swarthmore's football team, the Garnet Tide, had spent the morning listening to Metallica and trying to calm himself. "This is the most excited I've ever been for a game," he said. "I had trouble sleeping last night." Other Swarthmore players nearby strapped on their pads in silence. The night before, one had gone to the center of the field to meditate alone in the darkness...
Football at Swarthmore has often felt like an exercise in solitude, and in futility. Coming into the season-opening game against Oberlin, the Garnet Tide had been defeated in 28 straight games--the longest losing streak in college football. Their last win was in 1995, and the final score, 2-0, sounded like that of a soccer match. The school had since considered dropping football altogether. Players quit the team in droves. Only a handful of students showed up to watch Saturday home games. But at this intensely cerebral Quaker college, there has been a revived interest in the fortunes...
Like most Swarthmore contests, the game became a mismatch, but this time the Tide turned. Leading 14 to 6 at half time, Swarthmore scored three touchdowns in the third quarter. With the score 42 to 6, coach Alvanos rested the starters, including Aleffi, for the first time in their careers. By then some Swat backers were waxing philosophical about the losing streak. Aleffi's father John, 52, has traveled from Clark, N.J., for every Swarthmore game in the past three years. "I'll tell you," he said, "this has been a tremendous test of character...