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...couldn’t be prouder of them,” Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. “And I give Harvard credit for coming up with some big plays when they had to, and certainly they are a very good football team.” The opening kickoff set the tone when Penn’s Matt Tuten got flagged for a late hit on the kick return, taking 10 yards off of Chris Wynn’s return. On the whole, there were 13 flags on the day. The Crimson tallied five, accounting for 58 yards...
...Penn's Chris Wynn on the kickoff returns it to the Quaker...
...local obsession, but it’s paid huge dividends.That said, I hope you haven’t paid attention to the Crimson’s special teams this season—or last, for that matter. Harvard currently sits last in the league in punt returns, kickoff returns, and net punting, a year after finishing third, seventh, and seventh in those categories (in fairness, the squad’s kickoff coverage has been excellent).This weakness has the potential to become especially visible this weekend, when Harvard travels to Penn. The Quakers lead the league in kick returns...
...play for its final contests at Penn and against Yale at home. The Quakers’ top returner, defensive back Chris Wynn, averages about 20 punt return yards per game and 50 kick return yards per game, and Penn leads the league in both average punt return and average kickoff return. The Bulldogs’ Gio Christodoulou has 170 punt return yards—including a 71-yard touchdown return—on top of 174 yards of kickoff returns, and Yale is third in the league in average punt return. By comparison, Knowlin has just 103 punt return yards...
Pledging to take shorter showers, buy organic food, and boycott bottled water, nearly 4,000 members of the Harvard community have signed the 2008 Sustainability Pledge within five days of its kickoff. The pledge has come a long way since its inception in 2002 as a “Go Cold Turkey” campaign in which roughly 1,000 students promised to reduce their carbon footprint during Thanksgiving Break. In a campus-wide e-mail last Wednesday, Director of Sustainability Heather A. Henriksen said the importance of the pledge is two-fold: “It commits individuals...