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...England Patriots beat the point spread and kept their slim hopes for a playoff berth alive with a 16-10 win over the defensively awesome Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta yesterday...
Speaking of splits, it was a split of the two-game Penn series last year that most likely cost Harvard the elusive ECAC playoff berth. After dispatching Penn easily 6-2 at Watson early last season, the Crimson let a 3-0 lead go out with the Zamboni in a 4-3 loss at Philadelphia in late February...
Langton, the new chief of Harvard's soccer contingent, is also psyched for next season. Jimmy, who anchored the Crimson defense this past fall, hopes to steady the uneven keel which caused the team's remarkable comeback from a dreadful 1976 campaign to fall short of a playoff berth. "My role is to keep our concentration level up," the friendly native of State College, Pa. said after his election. "Our intensity dropped a few times this year--like against Tufts and Williams. My job is to maintain a certain level, to achieve some consistency," he explained...
...hang on to your zambonis because it's going to be even tighter this year. Aside from B.U., who wooed every top high school player East of Oshkosh, and Cornell, who has some sort of deal going with the Ottawa high school system, the race for the other six playoff spots should resemble a Bruno Sanmartino-George Steel Texas Death Match...
...tonight with a crucial Ivy League contest against Dartmouth. You should recall that last March the Woodsmen handed the Crimson a 2-3 upset, gaining the winning goal with eight seconds remaining in the third period, pounding Harvard into ninth place in the ECAC and eliminating the Crimson from playoff contention...