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With his team soaring and tacklers clasping air as he bursts by them, Tomlinson, a quiet leader actually stressed out by attention, has recorded the best single-season performance for a back in football history. "By far," says Emmitt Smith, the league's all-time leading rusher--for now. Tomlinson is the best ever, gushes Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer. That means better than Red Grange, Jim Brown, Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Heck, Tomlinson even completed two of his three passes--both for touchdowns--and is a garish seven out of 10, with six TD tosses, in his career. With...
...short-field opportunities. After a sack of Pizzotti pinned Harvard at its own 3-yard line junior punter Matt Schindel muffed his attempted punt out of bounds, where the ball was whistled out at the 8. On the next play McLeod, who finished the season as the leading Ivy rusher, took a handoff and ran around right tackle into the end zone, giving Yale a 27-7 lead...
...123rd edition of The Game, one of college football’s most storied rivalries, at Harvard Stadium tomorrow because: a. Its running back and quarterback, Clifton Dawson and Liam O’Hagan, are a more talented and experienced version of Yale’s own rusher-passer duo—Mike McLeod and Matt Polhemus. b. Its defense, ranked first in the nation in fewest rushing yards allowed and sacks per game, is far superior.c. It is playing at home, where it is unbeaten in 2006, outscoring its opponents 112-51. d. It has not lost...
Connecticut defector Berg, a disruptive two-time All-Ivy defender who picked off Jeff Mroz ’06 in triple overtime last year, is Harvard’s only hope of stopping the nation’s fourth-leading rusher. Often lining up over the center, Berg will usually be out of the reach of star tackle Ed McCarthy ’07, which could mean in the face of McLeod...
...protecting quarterback Liam O’Hagan and newly-crowned rushing king Clifton Dawson from the Bulldogs defense. Fernandez “has always managed to raise his level when it’s needed,” says Dawson, the Ivy League’s all-time leading rusher. “He’s one of the most reliable players.”This reliability will be missed next season on the Crimson’s gridiron, as the economics major departs eventually headed for the business world, although Fernandez hopes another team will require his talent...