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...that fact that makes the scope of Pizzotti’s career all the more notable. Never the most athletic guy on the field, Pizzotti waited in the wings for Harvard record-holders like Fitzpatrick to graduate, played alongside the Ivy League’s all-time leading rusher in Clifton Dawson ’07, and emerged from the shadows of two superstars to lead the Crimson to consecutive championships in his final two seasons. Though he played with—and learned from—the best, it was when Pizzotti took the reigns himself that Harvard truly...
...mind as he enters this year’s edition of the game. Although he started off more slowly this fall, the back has hit his stride at a time when Harvard’s D has begun to falter. A previously unstoppable force, it has allowed a rusher over 100 yards in three of the last five matchups...
...McNally—went 16-21 for 132 yards while rushing for a team-leading 89 yards on 15 tries.The league’s weekly defensive honor was taken by another Quaker, as senior defensive back Britton Ertman led a suffocating defense that held Tiger Jordan Culbreath, the leading rusher of the Ivies, to 57 yards and forced a key fumble.The low-scoring contest epitomized Penn’s smashmouth style of football.“They obviously have not been a prolific offense,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “But if you play great...
...number of opportunities to put this game away, [and] we didn’t do it.”That stop before the half precipitated a marked improvement from the Crimson’s defense in the second half. After allowing Culbreath, the Ivy League’s leading rusher, to run for 118 yards and two scores in the first half, Harvard held him to just 36 second-half yards and no scores.“I felt like they did a really good job scheming us up, and it showed in the first half,” Schultz...
...game. Before the break, the Tigers offense ran all over Harvard, only to see the game ripped from their grasp with a stronger second-half performance from Harvard that limited Princeton to just two field goals.Until week five, the Crimson defense hadn’t allowed a single rusher more than 100 yards in a game since 2005. Then last Saturday, Lehigh senior Matt McGowan posted 105 yards on the ground, breaking the three-year streak.Fixed on the idea that the way to beat Princeton was to stop its league-leading rushing attack, Harvard knew...