The Crimson (3-3-1, 3-3-0 ECAC) and the No. 4 Wildcats (8-1-4, 4-0-1 Hockey East) renewed their rivalry last night at Bright Hockey Center, and the perennial powers battled to a 1-1 tie.
But this fall, the seniors’ turn finally arrived, and the linebackers of the class of 2010—Jon Takamura, Conor Murphy, Sean Hayes, Nick Hasselberg, and J.B. Monu—has seized the opportunity.
As the 2010 Vancouver Games approach, five alums from Harvard women's hockey—all veterans of at least the 2006 Olympics—are hoping to get another chance to represent their countries on the biggest athletic stage of all.
When the Crimson’s top men’s lightweight crew pushes off at this weekend’s Head of the Charles Regatta, it will hold three men who showed up at the boathouse looking to try something new and found a passion that would dictate the course of their college careers.
Harvard football (6-2, 5-0 Ivy) went down to New York on Saturday and scored on its first two possessions on its way to a 34-14 thrashing of Columbia (2-6, 1-4) at Robert K. Kraft Field.
Harvard women's hockey stuck with the Golden Knights, scoring first, but couldn’t hold on as Clarkson rallied to hand the Crimson a 2-1 defeat in its home opener.
It used to be that a date with Cornell was a near-guaranteed win for the Harvard women’s hockey team. The Crimson had the Big Red’s number of late, winning 10 straight contests over the last three seasons—including sweeping Cornell out of the last two conference playoffs.
And when Harvard traveled to Ithaca last weekend, the cards seemed to be stacked in its favor. The Crimson was picked to finish second in the ECAC this year; the Big Red was expected to finish seventh. Plus Cornell’s biggest threat, forward Rebecca Johnston, is away from the team this season to train with the Canadian Olympic squad.
But this time, history didn’t repeat itself.
In a 42-21 blowout—a gap which could have been much bigger if Harvard head coach Tim Murphy hadn’t given his second team an entire quarter’s worth of playing time—it’s hard to find fault with the Crimson. But in Saturday’s matchup with Dartmouth, there was one area where the Big Green was clearly dominant—special teams.
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