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...lost a game as a starter since junior high school and would later gain most fame as the inspiration for the character of B.D. in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. A powerful Yale team had defeated an emerging Harvard unit narrowly the year before, setting the stage for a showdown for the Ivy League championship...
...could have been. Harvard (5-4, 3-3 Ivy) is much better than its record, which will be either 6-4 or 5-5 after the Game. It doesn't take much imagination to see that Crimson could also be 6-0 in the Ivy League heading into its showdown with Yale...
Harvard's win against the Dartmouth set the Crimson up for another showdown against Princeton, whom it had beat in the regular season in three easy games. Because the Crimson was now playing in the consolation bracket because of the earlier loss in the tournament to the Tigers, Harvard would have had to win its fifth-round match against the Tigers and then another best-of-three-game tie-breaking match in order to decide the champion...
...Harvard offense can repeat anything close to the performance they had last week when they scored three goals against the Ivy's top-rated defense, Saturday's match up with Drexel shouldn't be anything more than a tune-up for the anticipated showdown with Dartmouth...
...Given the overall strength of B.C. in every position, the Crimson isn't taking its showdown with Eagles lightly, despite beating BC 4-0 earlier this season...