Word: weirdness
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...didn't work out that way. Harvardlost to Columbia, 21-19, in the season opener, and if all of us didn't realize it was going to be a weird season after that game, we were suckers. Twelve points spearate the Crimson from an 8-0 season, if you can believe that...
Coach Joe Restic and the Multiflex had to bear a lot of the blame for that loss (along with Weird Incident Number One of the year--a two-point conversion on a trick play by the Lions). The three halfback offense seemed ineffectual at the time, and it looked even worse after the next week's results came in: a 10-0 trouncing of UMass with fullback Matt Granger in the power...
Then came the Dartmouth win; Weird Incident Number Two at Princeton when sure victory evaporated with a fluke fumble...
...offense took charge late in the game (the injury-torn defense had once again failed), only to see victory slip away as dusk descended on Soldiers Field. 31-30, the final tally read, as Gary Bosnic's 30-yd. field goal attempt in the fading light sailed just wide (Weird Incident Number Three...
...White Knight's and the Fawn's, both played by Ben Schatz, when the script, music and acting combined to explore the depths of gooey and contrived sentiment. The Fawn sequence was marred not so much by the flowery romanticism of the song as by the Fawn's weird behavior upon discovering that Alice is a human child. He runs off stage acting as if he were trying to keep himself from commiting an unnatural act, and only the most jaded could fail to be repelled by the whole scene. The same bizarre love interest insinuates itself in the White...