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...decision to also abstain from the Division I-AA playoffs, a move that Orleans became well-known for defending. The argument voiced by the Ivy League’s presidents, then and now, is that football is just different from other sports, and that the pursuit of gridiron glory would encourage Ivy schools to cut academic corners in pursuit of highly skilled athletes...
...after the deep ball, catch the ball in traffic and come down with it, and make plays after the catch.As his high school’s single-season and career leader in touchdowns, receptions, and all-purpose yards, Richards is certainly no stranger to success and stardom on the gridiron. This coming Saturday, he will finally get his chance to show what he can do. ADAM CHRISSISWhile many incoming football players will spend their rookie season learning the playbook and working out in the weight room, freshman wide-out Adam Chrissis will instead be gearing up as a starter...
EASTON, Penn.—There’s no better cure for a heartbreaking defeat than a perfectly executed victory.With the painful loss to Brown last weekend, Harvard football (2-1, 0-1 Ivy) returned to the gridiron at Lafayette (3-1, 1-0 Patriot) to notch a 27-13 win—the eighth consecutive Crimson victory over the Leopards.“We’ve won eight in a row against these guys, but it seems like they’re the hardest team to game plan for every year,” Harvard coach...
What hasn’t happened for the Lafayette football team, however, is beating the Harvard Crimson on the gridiron since its 17-7 victory in 1996. Tomorrow, head coach Frank Tavani will lead his squad against the visiting Crimson (1-1, 0-1 Ivy League), hoping to come out on top for the first time in his nine-year tenure. Not surprisingly, the Leopards enter this game with a chip on their shoulder...
...Jake “Suck it” Segal ’09, Ryan “Hack Attack” Hackett ’09, and Clement “Rocks” Wright ’09 on the gridiron that was Leverett tower courtyard—from the two big trees to the steps.We played, and drank, and tackled, and muddied ourselves, and slid, and fell, and caught, and charged, and frolicked, and jumped, and killed, and then, I got knocked out. It was perfect.It was transcendent.And it made all the misery—of the weather...