Word: second-half
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...tremendous first half,” Caples said. “They were beating us off the ball. We were a very different second-half team. We were able to change the momentum...
Instead, it left the momentum-changing plays to the defense, which forced two second-half turnovers that quickly turned into 14 Crimson points. The first play—a fumble recovery by junior defensive tackle Matt McBurney—also turned the momentum of the game...
With the offense grinding the clock down and scoring just seven second-half points, the pressure on the defense began to mount as Cornell attempted its late game push. But the Harvard defense was equal to the challenge, surrendering just seven rushing yards and 109 yards of total offense in the second half...
Harvard took 13 second-half shots to Cornell’s six, but Mahoney made seven saves to keep the game deadlocked...
Even though Fitzpatrick attempted a grand total of just seven passes once the Crimson led by three TDs, Harvard didn’t have a single drive longer than three minutes. If you take out Corey Mazza’s 64-yard TD reception—the only second-half reminder of the Crimson’s big-play character—there was no drive longer than 18 yards. In the final three quarters, there were only five first downs, compared with six three-and-outs...