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...games and to finish the season undefeated, a feat that Harvard football had not achieved for a century. With a soon-to-be NFL draftee, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, at the helm, and a young but dazzling Clifton Dawson ’07 in the backfield, the Bulldogs hardly stood a chance. By the time most of the crowd pulled itself away from the Ohiri Field tailgate, Harvard had turned The Game into a rout, taking a 21-0 lead after a 53-yard punt return by wide receiver Brian Edwards...
...really just had no answers offensively,” Siedlecki said after the game. “They seemed to be in our backfield every play, whether we were running or throwing. Obviously it got us completely out of our style of play…They had all the answers, no question. They got it going. They were as balanced as could be with everything that they...
...field, and spreading the defense by mixing in a healthy dose of screens and draws. On defense, Murphy called a ton of blitzes—harnessing the speed of his front four and the aggressiveness of his linebackers while trusting his veteran secondary—to get into the backfield and boggle the Bulldogs’ attack. In the end, the most plausible rationale is a clichéd one in the any-given-Saturday mold. Harvard played its best game of the season. Yale played its worst. The fact that the Crimson played its A-game with the championship...
...McLeod managed just 50 yards on 20 carries. “Our number one goal is to stop [McLeod] and make them do things they don’t want to do,” Bagdis said. “These guys in the middle, they were in the backfield all day long.”Against the number one scoring offense in the league the ‘D’ allowed just 109 yards of total offense—66 rushing, 43 passing—and zero offensive scores. Harvard’s two-plus-year streak...
...really just had no answers offensively," said Yale head coach Jack Siedlecki. "They seemed to be in our backfield every play, whether we were running or throwing. I don’t know how many plays our defense had, but they were out there...