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...fearing a rare offensive pass interference call—the referee shocked everyone by calling a defensive penalty. The Crusaders scored their first touchdown on the very next play. And that was only the first of four pass interference calls against the Crimson on the day. On the next drive, senior wideout Corey Mazza was called for offensive pass interference when he collided with a corner while running his route. As a result, the Crimson went three and out and was forced to punt. Harvard was charged with 11 total penalties on the day for 109 yards, while the Crusaders...
...seconds remaining gave Holy Cross a 31-28 win on Homecoming Day in front of 10,942 partisans at Fitton Field in Worchester, Mass.For the Crimson, meanwhile, the pass spoiled an otherwise sterling late-game effort by the defense. After giving up 24 unanswered points on four straight drives spanning the end of the second quarter and beginning of the third, which turned a 14-0 Harvard lead into a 24-14 deficit, the Crimson defense stiffened and stopped Holy Cross on four consecutive drives in the third and fourth quarters. When junior linebacker Glenn Dorris took down Randolph...
...sixth straight season-opening win against Holy Cross, it was not O’Hagan who Murphy called on. Instead, it was Ho, who ran the ball for nine yards on three consecutive carries before Harvard punted the ball away to a Crusader offense poised to orchestrate the winning drive. “We just didn’t slam the door shut when we could,” O’Hagan said. “We had a few opportunities to do that. We just didn’t get it done today.” It will...
...difficulty in conducting this type of research comes in determining the direction of causality, and past research has not been able to assess one star’s effect in isolation, Elbrese wrote in her paper, titled, “The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies...
...surge was conceived of as a drive to take control of the streets, particularly Baghdad, in order to allow Iraq's elected politicians a safer environment in which to forge the vital compromises on issues ranging from reintegrating members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party into government and security structures to the sharing of oil revenues - in short, to negotiate their way to a stable power-sharing arrangement. That, quite simply, has not happened, nor is there any sign that it's likely to. The reason the politicians have failed to agree is not the violence on the streets...