Word: walk-on
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...Murphy’s first practice with the Crimson, she showed up in her own T-shirt and sneakers. All the other players wore Harvard-issued gear from head to toe. Murphy was the outsider, the unknown walk-on fighting for a spot, as anonymous as they come—at least until practice started...
...asked about my godson, who had just begun his freshman year at Wake Forest, where he was hoping against hope for a walk-on nod from the terrific baseball program there. Bo had been at two or three of the recent post-season games, as had his mom, and was a true-blue Red Sox devotee...
Murphy, who finished the season third in the league in steals at 2.31 per game and fifth in assists with 3.74 a contest, proved on Saturday to be the feisty, unrelenting spark-plug who came to Harvard four years ago as a walk-on and without a varsity spot...
...fans cheered the former walk-on and the international sensation in the same breath, two players who arrived as freshmen with little in common and who left as seniors and champions...
Dalton notes the contributions of a third sophomore, walk-on guard Julia Pederson, as especially important...