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Sunday was a blue day for the Harvard field hockey team. The Crimson (0-9, 0-2 Ivy) met no southern hospitality when it arrived at the No. 4 Blue Devils’ (8-3) North Carolina home turf. With the greatest offensive showing of any Harvard opponent thus far, Duke defeated the Crimson 5-2, asserting its position as the nation’s fourth-ranked team. “It was a great opportunity for us as a team,” junior defender Devon Shapiro said. “We really just tried to concentrate on ourselves...
...cloth that might be used to wipe sweat off,” he said. Pier also did not rule out the notion–advanced by the New England Journal of Medicine in a 2003 study of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams–that artificial turf fields of the sort recently installed in Harvard Stadium could enhance the likelihood of infection. “If the artificial surfaces are more likely to cause abrasions than [a] natural surface…it probably does contribute to transmission,” he said. McLeod did specifically state that...
...game is always an intense match-up. We came out strong yesterday, but Brown held us and eventually finished with a goal. I believe we will learn from this game and come out even stronger against Providence.” Harvard will look to validate itself on its home turf Wednesday as it faces No. 16 Providence under the lights at 7 p.m. —Staff writer Courtney M. Petrouski can be reached at petrousk@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson (5-3-0, 0-1-0 Ivy) played Penn (5-2-0, 1-0-0 Ivy) this Saturday on the Quakers’ home turf, Rhodes field, only to have a rough time of it and lose to Penn by a final score...
...This year, despite reports during the summer that construction was behind schedule, the turf was down in time for Harvard’s 31-14 opening win over the Crusaders—but not without a little bit of trouble...