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...feel as if we are having a bad run of luck,” Craig said. ”We’ve played a lot of close games in these past seven, and for small reasons we lose these close ones.” Three of its losses??against Cornell, Rhode Island, and then the Big Green on Saturday—all ended with a goal in the last minutes of play by the opposing team to clinch the win. In its tie with the Tigers, Harvard also surrendered the tying goal in the last minutes...
...past few weeks I traveled campus noticing the lull, the quiet almost-ignorance that accompanied one of the worst spells of Harvard football in recent memory, two straight losses??one badly, one to an Ivy doormat—before the recent righting of the ship. Where was the dismay, the outrage, but mostly the surprise? Besides the usual complaints over lack of student fan participation, it struck me as the symptom of either a disappointing lack of context, the assumption among many students that at such an elite academic institution, the team should be bad, blind...
When captain Robbie Burmeister’s injury prevented him from starting in the men’s water polo contest against Brown last Thursday, Harvard—sporting a shaky 2-7 record and five straight losses??was surely nervous about its prospects for victory. Defense would be especially crucial to the team’s success against the Bears, for the Crimson had already dropped four one-goal games this season...
Given all the obstacles the squad has had to overcome this season—a vicious slew of injuries, scheduling difficulties, deflating losses??it felt strangely just that the natural elements would conspire against...
...finally getting back on the field after two straight rain outs against Columbia and Cornell over the weekend. Anticipation, however, soon turned into dejection as the Crimson (15-17, 6-4 Ivy) saw itself fall behind the Big Red early in both games en route to two devastating losses??2-9 and 1-3—that shattered its hope of garnering the Ivy title...