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...Witt??s first Harvard football memory, however, would leave him disappointed. “My first game as a Harvard player was on the JV practice field against Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in front of about 12 people who were maybe relatives of the kids from WPI,” he says. For a recruited athlete accustomed to a successful team and a devoted following, this was not the college homecoming that seemed to have been promised, ordained. “Literally the closest thing I can relate it to is when I first started playing football, when...
...close game against Holy Cross, an injury to the quarterback prompted Witt??s entry—“thrust into the fray,” as he put it—“me, who had never really even been considered as a player.” The Crimson went on to win, Witt threw for his first touchdown, and when his team arrived in Providence for a much-anticipated match-up against Brown, Witt was penciled in as starter. Things were looking up. Though Witt was the fifth Harvard player to start as quarterback...
...wasn’t the injury alone that prompted Witt??s departure. Football at Harvard was just not his brand of football. The lack of enthusiasm from students, the Ivy League restrictions, the impossibility of seeing an NCAA playoff spot: for Witt, it all led to a second-tier level of competition that was not reflected in the talent or devotion of the players themselves...
...sophomore, O’Hagan started every game except the first (when junior Richard Irvin began under center), and it took him the better part of five games to get on track.But five games of experience may not even be necessary to lead the Crimson into a strong season. Witt??s numbers last weekend suggest the young starter may be more up to the task than anyone previously believed. “You’d think that it would throw off the consistency and the continuity and the execution of the offense, but it wasn?...
...team that’s playing their third game was very challenging.” It certainly didn’t seem that way. All but three of Harvard’s points were scored on drives engineered by Pizzotti’s backup, sophomore Jeff Witt. It was Witt??s first extended game time, but you wouldn’t have been able to tell by the quarterback’s efficient 7 for 13, 105-yard performance, which included a 17-yard touchdown pass on the second half’s opening drive...