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Entering camp as a sophomore, Wahlberg was one of several competitors for the quarterback job vacated by Rich Linden ’00 and Brad Wilford ’00. Impressed by his live arm and overall athletic ability, football coach Tim Murphy slated the untested Wahlberg as the starter for the season opener against Holy Cross. But when he was intercepted three times while completing only four of his first 16 pass attempts, the sophomore was benched in favor of then-unknown junior Neil Rose, who took the job and ran. Sitting idle and discouraged on the sidelines, Wahlberg...
...Football definitely wasn’t turning out the way I wanted it to,” remembers Wahlberg. “And growing up playing baseball since I was like four years old, it was already hard for me to take a year off from...
Unwilling to watch another baseball season go by, Wahlberg decided to approach Walsh. Though the flame-throwing righty was not officially recruited by the Harvard baseball program out of high school, Walsh maintains that he was aware of him, and had hoped that he would attempt the switch. Offered a spot on the Crimson nine if he wanted it, Wahlberg quickly made the decision to play baseball—and only baseball...
...decision I had to make to either be mediocre at both sports, because I would have to divvy up my time, or try to excel at one,” Wahlberg explains. “And I think the direction I went was towards baseball, because I thought that I could maybe have a career after school in baseball. In football I was physically hindered in some ways, height-wise especially...
...choice was one that might have seemed unnecessary to Harvard athletes of decades past, as both Walsh and Wahlberg will testify. While Crimson history is loaded with quarterback/pitchers—most notably Milt Holt ’75, who garnered All-Ivy honors in both sports—the days in which an Ivy athlete can realistically star in two major sports have for the most part passed...