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...this is why the fans have been showing up in $38 Morris jerseys available at the Stadium; why, in addition to scouts from across the NFL, ESPN GameDay and Sports Illustrated and hundreds of normally apathetic fans have shown up as well...
Morris doesn’t run from his surprising fame. He seems to enjoy it—he keeps one of his uniforms in his common room and once posed for a campus magazine dangling playfully from the goalpost—but is guarded when asked about the NFL, about his role on the team, about agents and scouts. He’ll open up more when talking about the game, whatever the game is at the moment. Here it’s basketball, and Morris’ eyes light up as he talks about hitting the courts for pickup...
...industry” has heard a lot from Harvard lately—Birk and Kacyvenski head a list of recent Crimson NFL signees that approaches double digits. In the decade before Murphy’s arrival in 1994, not one Harvard player had signed...
...just the successful pros who advise Morris about how to run the gauntlet. Terrence Patterson ’00 was Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his protegé take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter there...
...through time, let’s go a bit further back, back to the 1970s and to the man who held most of Harvard’s receiving records before Patterson and Morris were born. Pat McInally ’75, was selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft and made his living as, of all things, an All-League punter. McInally had been the Crimson’s highest-ever Crimson selection until Kacyvenski in 2000. The laws of physics don’t change over time, presumably, and so it makes sense to ask someone...