Harvard Varsity Club NEWS & VIEWS of Harvard Sports

Volume 51 Issue No. 1 www.varsityclub.harvard.edu August 28, 2008 Crimson Gridders Looking To Defend Ivy League Title in 2008

by Kurt Svoboda 15th-year head coach Tim Murphy seem primed to continue that Director of Athletic Communications string of success in the 2008 season, although competitive foes led by Brown and Yale will threaten for league supremacy. Twenty- The anticipation of Harvard’s 135th season surrounds the nine Major H award winners return from last year, including an return of 15 starters from 2007 as well as 11 returning All-Ivy impressive 22 starters from 2007. League selections for the defending Ivy League-champion Crim- A defense that has been ranked near the top of Division I in son. Unabated by two close setbacks early in the 2007 campaign, each of the past four seasons will be bolstered by 18 returning Harvard spun off seven consecutive victories to finish the season letterwinners and eight starters from a year ago along with a pair undefeated in Ivy League play, capped by a rousing 37-6 victory of starters from 2006 who missed last year. Harvard finished the over previously unbeaten and 11th-ranked Yale in the 124th play- season ranked in the nation’s top five in five different statistical ing of The Game. categories including turnover margin, passing efficiency defense Losses have been few and far between in Cambridge over and rushing touchdowns allowed with just four. the last six years, as The offense, meanwhile, welcomes back 12 players who start- Harvard has amassed a ed at least one game in 2007 and features a pair of All-Ivy League combined 48-11 record quarterbacks to go with eight returning skill position contribu- in that span including tors. Senior signal-callers Chris Pizzotti and Liam O’Hagan were two undefeated sea- ranked first and second in the Ivy League in passing efficiency last sons, three undefeated season and enter their final year to the relief of many around the Ivy championships league. The pair has already etched their names among Harvard’s and what can, without leaders in numerous passing categories and will be helped by the question, be termed as return of a talented offensive line and athletic running backs and the most consistently wide receivers. successful program in Fans will note that Harvard’s 2008 schedule consists of the the Ivy League dur- same opponents that the Crimson faced in each of the last three ing that stretch.The years. Seven of the 10 games will be against Ivy League oppo- Crimson has registered nents as the Ancient Eight continues to see the gap between the at least seven wins in league champion and the last-place schools tighten. The three each of the last seven nonleague games, meanwhile, are against the consensus choices years, making Harvard as the top three teams in the Patriot League, including the season- the first team in the opener against a Holy Cross squad that has been tabbed as that history of Ivy League conference’s favorite by some prognosticators. football to post such Here’s a look at how the Crimson shapes up by position: a string of successful Offense Preseason All-American junior James Williams. seasons. Senior QBs Pizzotti and O’Hagan have combined to start 28 dspics.com Harvard and Continued on page 6 New Expanded Ticket Area at Harvard Stadium This fall when you head to Harvard Stadium on football gamedays you will immediately notice some changes. In an effort to cooperate with the City of Boston, and in doing so create a more enjoyable environment for fans, Harvard has expanded the ticket area and instituted new reentry policies for home football games. The enlarged area (see map) will now include space around Harvard Stadium, including the grass courtyard between the Murr Center and the Bright Hockey Center, as well as the walk- way between the Murr Center and Harvard Stadium. Within this area fans will be treated to more concession and entertainment options throughout the game. The new expanded ticket area will give fans a place to go in light of the Stadium’s new no re-entry policy. Starting this season, fans who depart the new expanded ticket area will not be allowed to return unless they purchase a new ticket. Fans will be allowed to leave Harvard Stadium and return, but only if they remain within the ticket area. Fans are encouraged to take advantage of the new concession and entertainment vendors that will now align the courtyard and walkway. Lastly, parking lot tailgating will close at the start of the football game. This will be applicable to all Harvard parking lots. Post game tailgating will be permitted after day games, but like last year, not after the September 19th night game. Parking lots open two hours prior to kickoff. Come early to tailgate then head into Harvard Stadium and enjoy the day New ticket area shown above in RED. Ticket area will include from there. While these changes were made in consultation with vendors selling a variety of food, drinks and merchandise. Go the City of Boston, we hope they will also enhance the gameday to gocrimson.com/fancenter/gameday for the most up to date experience for all the fans at Harvard Stadium. For questions or information. comments please contact the Athletic Department at 617-495-2206. Fall Sports Preview Women’s Soccer Field hockey • Head coach Sue Caples adds a class of six talented freshman • Harvard looks to continue the turnaround it started last from across the globe to a roster full of experienced veterans as season, when it had the nation’s fifth-most-improved record, Harvard looks to again compete for an Ivy championship. going 10-6-1 in Ray Leone’s first year as head coach. The • The Crimson is led by a strong senior class, all five members Crimson brings back most of its weapons on both ends of the of which started throughout last season. Forwards Tami Jafar field, returning 88 percent of its scoring and five All-Ivy League and Kayla Romanelli look to build on all-league seasons in 2007, performers, including goalkeeper Lauren Mann. Jafar shared the team lead with five goals last season, earning se- • Mann, a second-team All-Ivy selection in 2007 and the league lection to the All-Ivy second team. Romanelli, a team co-captain, Rookie of the Year in 2006, started all 17 games in net a year ago garnered all-league honorable mention, also netting five goals and made a league-best 76 saves en route to nine shutouts, also a and setting up two others. conference high. • Kylie Stone, the Crimson’s other co-captain, entered last sea- • Senior co-captain Nicole Rhodes and junior Lizzy Nichols son without a career start but earned the full-time job in the pre- give Harvard experience and skill at defense as both garnered season and went on to start 16 games, shut out two opponents All-Ivy honors and started all 17 games last fall. Nichols and earn year-end recognition as the team’s most-improved received All-Ivy and NSCAA All-Northeast second-team ac- player. She ranked in the top half of the Ivy League in colades, while Rhodes, one of only two three-time captains in conference (1.37) and overall (1.80) goals-against average. Crimson history, earned honorable mention, as the Crimson • Francine Polet has started the last 35 games on the Crimson surrendered only 13 goals all season. Senior co-captain Allison back line and has also aided the offense on penalty corners. She Keeley has started 27 games in her Crimson career and will scored three goals and added three assists last season, on the bolster the defense after returning from an injury. way to Academic All-Ivy honors. Classmate Abbie Harpstead is • Katherine Sheeleigh, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year and also entering her third season as a starter. a Soccer Buzz freshman All-America third-team honoree, was • The veterans and newcomers will look to jell in time for the Harvard’s leading scorer as a rookie, tallying eight goals and season opener, Sept. 5 at home vs. Holy Cross. 16 points. The NSCAA All-Northeast second-team selection ranked second in the Ivy League in scoring and was a two-time Sailing Ivy Rookie of the Week. At midfield, sophomore All-Ivy League • Harvard returns its entire starting lineup, led by All-America second-team performer Gina Wideroff finished second on the skipper Megan Watson. Watson, then a junior, placed third in squad with five goals and 12 points. the New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship, going • Harvard begins the 2008 season with a trip to southern Cali- on to a ninth-place. fornia to face Long Beach State Sept. 5 and Loyola Marymount • She is joined by partner Meghan Wareham, who was thrust Sept. 7. into A-division duty as a freshman last season. Junior Liz Pow- ers and sophomore Quincy Bock handled much of the B-divi- Men’s Tennis sion work a year ago. • For the coed team Alan Palmer sailed well late in his rookie • The defending league-champion champion Crimson will be season and should compete for the Crimson’s open A-division road warriors this fall, with eight tournaments away from home skipper position. Sophomore Tedd Himler and junior Drew listed on the schedule after starting the academic year by hosting Robb are Harvard’s top returning singlehanded performers, the Harvard Open Sept. 7. having placed sixth and seventh, respectively, at last year’s New • Seven Crimson players earned All-Ivy accolades in 2008, and England Singlehanded Championship. five are back this fall. Rising seniorSasha Ermakov earned • The Crimson opens the season Sept. 13-14 at Yale for the Harry first-team doubles honors and classmate Chris Clayton was Anderson Trophy. named to the singles first team. SophomoreAba Omodele-Luc- ien garnered All-Ivy honorable mention at singles and doubles Men’s Soccer as a rookie. Sophomore Alex Chijoff-Evans and junior Michael Hayes also received honorable mention for doubles. • The Crimson is starting a new era with the arrival of new head • Harvard is slated to send players to the Brown Invitational and coach Jamie Clark but is not starting from scratch. Clark comes Napa Valley Collegiate Invitational a week after the Harvard to Cambridge by way of Notre Dame, where he served as an Open and will compete in the Northeast Invitational Sept. 19-21 assistant coach the last two seasons, and New Mexico, where he in Flushing, N.Y. was an assistant from 2001 to 2005. • Clark’s team enters the season ranked 26th nationally by Col- Men’s & Women’s Cross Country lege Soccer News. The Crimson went 12-4-2 last year, reaching the NCAA tournament for the second straight year and climbing • Each Harvard team returns a strong group of runners in head to No. 6 in the national rankings. Harvard welcomes back eight coach Jason Saretsky’s third season. Both squads will look to starters, six seniors and four All-Ivy League performers. improve further in 2008 following their best finishes in recent • Junior Andre Akpan and senior Michael Fucito have both years last season. The men’s squad brings back three of its top been named to the watch list for the Hermann Trophy, given five scorers from a year ago, while the women’s team is led by a annually to the nation’s top player. Both players have also been outstanding sophomore class that will look to be even more suc- named preseason All-Americans by College Soccer News after cessful with a year of collegiate running under its belt. earning second-team All-America and first-team all-region and • The men’s fifth-place finish at Heps was its best since 2001. The All-Ivy honors a year ago. women also took fifth, their best team showing since 1999. • Junior Kwaku Nyamekye, a second-team All-Ivy selection last • Sophomore Daniel Chenoweth emerged as the Crimson men’s season, and senior John Stamatis, who garnered All-Ivy honor- No. 2 scorer a year ago and was the team’s second finisher at able mention, also return. Nyamekye scored four goals last fall, both the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (16th) and the while Stamatis had two goals and four assists. Altogether, Har- NCAA Northeast Regional Championships (34th). Senior An- vard returns 91 percent of its offense from a year ago. drew Lipkin was the next Harvard runner across the line in both • The season gets underway Sept. 5 at the Duke/Nike Classic, those races, placing 24th at Heps and 37th at Regionals. Chas Two days after taking on the host Blue Devils, Harvard faces Gillespie was 40th at the regional meet and took 35th at Heps another Atlantic Coast Conference team in North Carolina State. (25:33.0) as a sophomore in 2007. • Six of the Harvard women’s seven runners at Regionals Women’s Tennis were freshmen at the time. Claire Richardson was Harvard’s • Senior Beier Ko and sophomore Samantha Rosekrans will be top runner at the meet, finishing 22nd. Richardson picked up back in action after earning All-Ivy League selection last season. second-team All-Ivy honors and was named to the all-region Ko garnered first-team all-league honors while Rosekrans team for her top-25 showing. Richardson also placed 19th at earned second-team recognition. The pair also received All-Ivy Heps (18:12.9), 12th at the HYP meet and finished a season-high honorable mention in doubles. fifth at the UAlbany Invitational. Jamie Olson also put together • Harvard adds five freshmen to a roster including five veter- as strong rookie campaign as she was Harvard’s top finisher at ans. The newcomers will have their first chances to compete Heps (13th) and Albany (fourth). collegiately Sept. 19-21, when the Crimson sends athletes to the • The Crimson opens its 2008 campaign Sept. 20 with the Iona Columbia Invitational and the William & Mary Fall Invitational. Meet of Champions. The race will be held at Van Cortlandt Park Harvard will also compete at the Cissie Leary Invitational Sept. and is the first of five meets scheduled to be run in New York 26-28 in Philadelphia. City. 2 Crimson in Beijing: Harvard Athletes Capture Four Medals at 2008 Olympics by Tim Williamson next 500. The Canadians held off Great Britain in the final stretch Assistant Director of Athletic Communications for the win in 5:23.89, while the British took second in 5:25.11. Former Radcliffe rower The world’s best athletes came Michelle Guerette ’02, who together in Beijing for two weeks was coached by Harvard men’s this past August for the 2008 Sum- lightweight coach Charley Butt, a mer Olympic Games. Harvard, four-time Olympic coach, earned which has qualified athletes at a comeback victory to earn a every modern Summer Olympics, silver medal in the women’s was well-represented at these 29th single sculls. Guerette, an Olym- summer games, as nine current and pian with Team USA in 2004 as former student-athletes, represent- well, found herself in fifth at the ing the United States, Canada and midway point of the race, but Israel, competed in fencing, rowing clocked the quickest final two and tennis. 500-meter splits to come within It was an Olympics to remem- a hair of the gold medal, finish- ber for Harvard as the Crimson ing only 0.44 seconds behind contingent took home four medals, Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria. including two gold, and earned In the final 500 meters, Guerette memorable victories while repre- and two-time Olympic champion senting their respective nations. USA Olympic silver medalists for fencing (left to right): Erinn Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus Emily Cross ’08-09, a member Smart, Hanna Thompson and Emily Cross ‘08. were neck-and-neck before of the United States fencing team, Timacheff/FencingPhotos.com Guerette overtook her for the was one of two current Harvard silver. Neykova paced the rowers athletes that participated in the Olympics. Cross, an individual in 7:22.34, Guerette was second in 7:22.78, while Karsten took the NCAA champion in 2005 and a member of Harvard’s NCAA team bronze in 7:23.98. championship in 2006, took a year off from school in an attempt to That was my best race ever,” Guerette exclaimed after the qualify for the Olympics in the foil. The native of New York, N.Y., race. “I knew that when I was with everyone at the 1,000, that was also had to battle an ankle injury this past year, a difficult task for good. I knew that it would be hard for everyone to hold that pace. a sport that requires its athletes to have skilled balance. The effort At the end, I was just (saying) ‘Keep it together. Don’t let up.’ I just paid off for the rising senior as she earned a spot on Team USA in gave it everything I had. It was better than my best race.” the individual and team foil events. In one of the biggest upsets of the Olympics, former Harvard After falling in the round of 32 in the individual competition, tennis standout James Blake, playing for the U.S., advanced to the Cross set her focus on the team foil in the hope of bringing home a semifinals in men’s singles after upsetting No. 1 Roger Federer of medal. The U.S. team was seeded seventh out of eight teams and Switzlerand. Blake, the No. 8 seed, waited out a 3 hour, 35 minute had to face Poland, the defending world champions, in the quar- rain delay before knocking off Federer in straight sets, 6-4 and 7-6 terfinals. In that opening round, Cross scored seven touches as (2). The first-time Olympian, who was the nation’s top collegiate the Americans earned a close, 31-30, upset victory over the Polish player in 1999 before turning pro after his sophomore season, had squad, advancing Team USA to the semifinals against Hungary. previously won only a single set in his previous eight meetings Cross put in a dazzling performance against Hungary, as she against Federer. Even though Blake did not finish with a medal, won all three of her bouts and led the Americans with 16 points. he was a part of Olympic history and provided one of the Ameri- In fact, Cross earned a 7-1 win over Edina Knapek in the eighth can highlights in Beijing. bout, giving Team USA an insurmountable 33-19 lead with only In other events, Patrick Todd ’02, a six-time national team one match remaining. The U.S. held on, 35-33, clinching America’s member for the U.S., rowed in the men’s lightweight four for the first-ever medal in the women’s foil at the Olympics, quite a feat second straight Olympics. Todd and his teammates finished 11th for an American team that was a large underdog in each of the this year with a mark of 6:07.79. Meanwhile, twins Cameron ’04 first two matches. and Tyler Winklevoss ’04 placed sixth in the men’s pair in their “We had our moment when everything came together for us, first Olympic appearance. The brothers, who are two-time senior and luckily it happened at the best time possible,” said Cross, who national team members, reached the final for the U.S. after racing paced the U.S. with 31 touches during the team tournament, held from fifth to second in the last 500 meters of their semifinal. In the at the National Convention Centre. championship, the duo finished with a time of 7:05.58. In the gold medal match against No. 1 ranked Russia, Cross In the women’s individual epee, Noam Mills ’12, who de- opened with a 2-1 win over Victoria Nikichina, but the Russians ferred her admittance to Harvard to compete with Team Israel at proved to be too strong in the long run, emerging with a 28-11 the Beijing Games, suffered a 15-8 defeat to Laura Flessel -Co victory and the gold medal. Still, the U.S. earned its silver, and in lovic of France in the round of 32. Mills, however, will strive to the process, Cross became the first Harvard fencer ever to win an continue to improve and should be back in the 2012 Olympics in Olympic medal. London. “This is a tremendous moment for Harvard fencing,” Harvard Harvard has another athlete competing at Beijing this year, head coach Peter Brand explained. “Seeing Emily win a medal as recent graduate Beth Kolbe ’08 is a member of the U.S. Para- after coming back from an injury and going through rehabilitation lympic Swimming Team that will compete at the 2008 Paralympic is just amazing. Before embarking on this journey, Games Sept. 6-17. Kolbe is Emily told me she didn’t want to simply participate in one of 18 women named the Olympics, she wanted to bring home a medal.” to the U.S. squad and will The Crimson struck gold twice in Beijing as a swim in the 50 freestyle pair of classmates, Caryn Davies ’05 and Malcolm and 50 backstroke events. Howard ’05, became Olympic champions in the final All of these athletes rowing events of the 2008 Olympiad. On a cloudy will return with memories day at the SY Rowing-Canoeing Park, Davies, who of this tremendous experi- was an All-American rower for Radcliffe, leading the ence and will certainly black and white to the national title in 2003, stroked be proud of their accom- the U.S. women’s eight. The boat led at every split en plishments in Beijing. route to a 1.88-second victory and the gold medal, the They are members of first for the U.S. in this event since 1984. The U.S. fin- a distinct group of the ished with a mark of 6:05.34, while the Netherlands world’s greatest athletes, clocked in at 6:07.22. and have represented the The men’s eight immediately followed the wom- Olympic Silver medalist Michelle Guerette ‘02 with very best in themselves, en’s race, and Howard, who was part of three national her coach (and Harvard men’s lightweight crew coach) their families, Harvard championships at Harvard, and the Canadian crew Charley Butt in Beijing. photo by Cory Bosworth and their respective coun- led throughout the race for the title. Canada held a tries. 0.77-second lead after the first 500, 2.58 after 1,000 and 2.23 in the

3 Crimson Commentary

by Michele McLaughlin who at 28 was the nation’s youngest head coach at a major college, Assistant Director of the Harvard Varsity Club at Georgetown University in 1949, was also an assistant coach at Yale University and Boston University. et another season is upon us here at Harvard. The teams ***** are back on the fields getting ready to work hard to bring On November 5th at the Harvard Club of New York City titles to Cambridge. Like always we’d like to take this Harvard Director of Recreational Rowing Dan Boyne will be giv- Yopportunity to welcome all the new faces to the Harvard ing a talk about his new book “Kelly: A Father, A Son, An Ameri- Athletics family. This summer we also said goodbye to Varsity can Quest,” about Olympic sculling champions John B. Kelly Sr. Club Assistant Director Ellie Humphries ‘04. Ellie worked for and Jr. He is also the author of “Essential Sculling” and “The Red the Varsity Club and the Friends groups for the past two years. Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water.” If She will be sorely missed as she heads off to pursue a graduate you’d like to attend the event, and are not a Harvard Club of New degree back home in Seattle, WA. Replacing Ellie will be Kristen York member contact Eric Sigward ‘68 at [email protected], Schmidt. Kristen has served as the Varsity Club Staff Assistant for to arrange to get on the HCNY guest list. Club members can call the past two years. With that experience she will certainly bring 212-827-1200, ext. 4 or email [email protected]. a great amount of knowledge to the position. Good luck to both Ellie and Kristen! ***** From the random acts of kindness department, a vintage This issue highlighting the Harvard Athletics presence in Harvard Varsity Club sign (pictured below) was returned by Beijing could not be complete without mention of Michael Graff a gentleman claiming to be Phil McCabe. Phil made a brief ‘73. Graff has served as the Chairman of US Water Polo for the appearance at the Club, saying he was pleased that the sign past 18 months. He has done a tremendous job—inheriting a was now back where it belonged, and quietly exited. The sign program that had coaching issues, a staffing scandal and was in a was stolen from its original perch outside the Varsity Club’s financial deficit. Graff’s guidance catipulted US Water Polo to a Carey Cage office decades ago. A smaller replacement was place where both the men’s and women’s teams were able to bring quickly made and hung outside Carey Cage, but would soon home silver medals in Beijing. For the men, it was the first medal fall prey to more treasure seekers. Various reports had one for since 1988. or both signs hanging in fraternity houses at MIT, but these ***** rumors were never substantiated. In any event, we would like Another Harvard alum was making himself heard in Beijing to express a sincere thank you to Phil, or whoever you may this past summer. If you’ve tuned in to any of NBC’s coverage of really be...we really like having our sign back! - Bob Glatz ‘88 soccer in Beijing, you’ve most likely heard the voice of former Har- vard soccer standout and NBC color analyst Shep Messing ‘72. A two-time All-American for the Crimson in the early 1970s, the eccentric Messing was a member of the first American soccer team ever to qualify for the Olympics at the Munich Games in 1972, and later achieved fame as the goalkeeper for the star-studded New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL). ***** We are saddened to report the passing of former Freshman Football coach Bob Margarita. Margarita was a former star half- back at Medford High (MA) and Brown University and was on top of the professional football world in 1945 after finishing third in rushing in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears. The following season he joined the Harvard coaching staff as an as- sistant coach in order to be closer to home to help care for his first son, Bobby, who was fatally afflicted with spina bifida. Margarita, Men’s Water Polo Women’s Volleyball • The Crimson looks to build on third-place finishes at both the • The Crimson looks to vault up the Ivy League standings this Northern Division and Eastern Championships last fall en route season, the 16th for head coach Jen Weiss, who stands one win to a winning season in 2008. shy of the 200-victory plateau. • Returning to the Crimson are All-Northern Division play- • The squad is led by junior co-captains Katherine Kocurek ers Jay Connolly and Bret Voith. Connolly was honored as the and Lily Durwood. Kocurek, the libero, set the team record for Northern Division’s first-team all-league goalkeeper while Voith digs in a season with 520 in 2007, breaking the previous mark by earned a spot on the second team. Connolly, a senior co-captain, more than 100. She is Harvard’s career leader in career digs per will provide stability between the pipes after ranking second game (5.09) and holds the top two single-season marks for digs nationally in saves last season with 312. Voith, a sophomore, per game (5.59 in 2007, 4.44 in 2006). Durwood ranks fifth in ranked second on the team with 41 goals and 27 steals and school history with 1,426 career assists after notching 895 (9.62 paced the Crimson with 21 assists during his rookie season. per game) last season. • Spencer Livingston, Harvard’s leading goal scorer with 48 last • Senior Kathryn McKinley gives the Crimson experience and year, returns for his junior season. Livingston also had a team- versatility on the outside. She ranked second on the team last bestClifton 16 kickouts Dawson drawn ‘07 and was among the club leaders with season with 251 kills and 298 digs and ranks 10th on the Harvard 14 ejectionsdspics.com and 13 steals. Senior co-captain David Tune, who career list with 850 digs. tallied 17 goals and led Harvard with 22 ejections, and junior • In the middle, Weiss added three six-foot freshman to go with Egen Atkinson, who was fifth on the team with 20 scores, are sophomore Alyssa Fletcher who tallied 60 blocks last year. also key returnees on offense. • The season gets underway Sept. 7 at Fairfield. The Crimson • Harvard begins its season with the short trip down Memorial returns home the following weekend to host Long Beach State, Drive for the Cambridge Invitational, Sept. 12-14 at MIT. American and Central Connecticut in the Harvard Invitational. Men’s Golf Women’s Golf • Juniors Greg Shuman and Danny Mayer are coming off 10th- • Fresh off its first Ivy League championship, the Crimson looks and 11th-place finishes, respectively, last year at Ivies. Mayer to establish itself as a consistent force atop the league. had a team-low 75.81 scoring average last season, followed by • Harvard returns a pair of its All-Ivy League performers in Shuman at 76. Then-junior Michael Shore was third on the team senior Emily Balmert, who placed second at last year’s Ivy tour- with a 76.78 average, just ahead of then-sophomore teammate nament, junior Claire Sheldon, who took third. Senior Ali Bode Peter Singh. and junior Sarah Harvey are back after finishing 11th and 15th, • Over the summer, rising sophomore Louis Amira fired rounds respectively, at Ivies. of 68 and 73 at Worthington Manor Golf Club in Urbana, Md. to • Sheldon competed for the U.S. Golf All-Star team in Asia over qualify for the USGA Men’s Amateur Championship. He played the summer. Incoming freshman Christine Cho qualified for in the prestigious tournament in August at Pinehurst Country and competed in the USGA Junior Girls Championship and the Club in Pinehurst, N.C. USGA Women’s Amateur Championship. • The Crimson will play in four tournaments this fall, starting • The Dartmouth Invitational is the first fall tournament for Har- with the McLaughlin, Sept. 19-20 at the Bethpage Red Course. vard. It takes place Sept. 13-14 at the Hanover Country Club. 4 2007-08 Varsity Club Contributors

The finanacial support of Varsity Club members is essential to recent improvements at the Club, increasing support to the Friends Groups and to the continued growth of the Varsity Club endowment. We would like to thank all of our members and give special acknowledgement to those below who have given $100 or more in addition to their dues in fiscal year 2008 (July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008).

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Stephenson ‘64 Zimmerman Jr. ‘68 Joel R. Landau ‘59 Charles J. Egan Jr. ‘54 Caleb Loring Jr. ‘43 Richard J. Sterne ‘68 Lewis D. Lowenfels ‘57 Francisco J. Elizalde ‘54 Jeffrey A. Lowin ‘65 Geoffrey M. Stiles ‘79 $500 - $999 Peter L. Malkin ‘55 Drew R. Engles ‘87 Michael C. Lynch ‘74 Alan A. Stone ‘50 Thomas G. Aubin ‘88 Stephen R. Malley ‘00 Stephen Ezeji-Okoye ‘85 B. Lane MacDonald ‘88 Tadhg Sweeney ‘61 Richmond W. Theresa M. Moore ‘86 Charles S. Faulkner II ‘57 Demarest L. Graham R. Taylor Jr. ‘49 Bachelder ‘50 Joseph J. O’Donnell ‘67 Mark K. Ferguson ‘73 MacDonald‘66 Timothy B. Taylor ‘63 K. Thomas Bailey ‘90 John G. Penson ‘42 Michael J. Ferrucci ‘98 William T. Maloney ‘55 John L. Thorndike ‘49 Richard J. Barrett ‘71 Alan K. Percy ‘60 Edward S. Fitzgibbons ‘44 Timothy A. Manges ‘86 Clifton Ray Tidwell Jr. ‘87 Paul A. Barringer ‘65 Robert L. Pillsbury ‘61 Newell Flather ‘61 William E. Markus ‘60 Francis J. Toland John D. Bennett ‘75 Richard C. Puccio Jr. ‘90 C. 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Pulvino ‘92 contact the Varsity Club if Robert G. Barrett ‘66 Jon A. Bernstein ‘90 Arthur C. Hodges ‘57 George Putnam III ‘73 an omission has been made: LaRue Tone Hosmer ‘50 Jerry H. Pyle ‘59 (617) 495-3535 or [email protected].

5 Football, Continued from page 1 six All-Ivy picks. Additionally, the Crimson welcomes back the of the last 30 Harvard games over the past three seasons. In fact, sack-happy Bryant brothers, Brenton and Desmond. the duo already ranks in the top seven among Harvard’s all-time Perennial All-Ivy selection Matt Curtis will again anchor greats in passing yardage and among the top four in completion the middle of the line while also serving as Harvard’s 135th team percentage. captain. Curtis returns for his third year as a starter and his fourth The running back position features three backs with break- as a regular at defensive tackle and is joined by All-Ivy returnees away speed, led by junior Cheng Ho, who reached all-league sta- Peter Ajayi and Carl Ehrlich. tus last season after totaling 722 yards and eight TDs. Sophomore At linebacker, All-Ivy picks Eric Schultz and Glenn Dorris Gino Gordon and junior Ben Jenkins are also in the mix for time. lead a group of eight returning letterwinners including fellow Junior Matt Luft leads the receiving corps while Alex Breaux, senior Matthew Thomas, who started all 10 games a year ago. Mike Cook and Chris Sanders have all started games during All told, Harvard’s returning defensive line and linebackers have their careers. Additionally, sophomores Chris Lorditch, Marco combined for 125 tackles for a loss and 58 career sacks entering Iannuzzi and Levi Richards provide the Crimson with outstand- the season. ing depth and options in its return game. In the defensive backfield, All-America candidateAndrew The skill position players will benefit from the Crimson’s Berry and Derrick Barker will lead the least-experienced unit on strength on the offensive line, which returns four players who the team while seniors Steve Sheehan and Ryan Barnes will add started games including honorable mention All-America tackle stability. James Williams. Special Teams Defense Junior Patrick Long will do the placekicking and Thomas While Harvard graduated four All-Ivy players from its de- Hull will punt when called on. Both players started a year ago fense, the Crimson returns seven starters from last year, including and finished among the league leaders.

Upcoming Friends and Varsity Club Events

SEPTEMBER 2008 8 - Friends of Football Board Meeting, 6 p.m., Murr Center Conference Room 18 – Friends of Football Dinner Huddle With Coach Murphy, 6 p.m., Dillon Field House Lounge 22 – Friends of Hockey Golf Tournament, Granite Links Golf Club, 1:30 p.m. shotgun start 22 – Varsity Club Executive Board Meeting, 5:15 p.m., Murr Center Lounge 24 - Friends of Rowing Executive Board Meeting, 12 p.m., Downtown Harvard Club

OCTOBER 2008 4 –Friends of Soccer Alumni Weekend, 9 a.m. games, Ohiri Field, BBQ 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Dillon Lounge 10 – Friends of Football Lunch Huddle With Coach Murphy, 12 Noon, Dillon Field House Lounge 10 - Men’s Basketball Alumni Weekend Dinner (Time TBD, Location TBD) 11- Men’s Basketball Alumni Weekend, 9 a.m. Alum Scrimmage, Lavietes, 11 a.m. Alum BBQ, Lavietes 11-12 - Harvard Softball Alumnae Weekend (TBD) 17 – Friends of Harvard & Radcliffe Rowing Dinner, 7:30 p.m. dinner, Harvard Club on Comm. Ave. 18 – Friends of Field Hockey Alumni BBQ (Time and Location TBA) 18 – Friends of Harvard Lacrosse Alumni Games, 4:30p.m. Games, Stadium, 7:30pm BBQ, TBD 18 – Harvard Football 1961 Team Reunion at the Lehigh game (pre-game reception, post-game dinner) 20 – Varsity Club Executive Board Meeting, 5:15 p.m., Murr Center Lounge 22 – HRFWA/WISER “License to Thrive” Boston Alumnae Reception, 5:30 p.m. Silent Auction/Recp, 6:30 p.m. Program, 7 p.m. Film, Lee Family Hall of History 25 – Friends of Football Tailgate sponsored by Harvard Clubs of Princeton and NJ (Princeton Stadium) 28 - HRFWA/WISER “License to Thrive” NYC Alumnae Rec./Film Screening (Time TBD, Yale Club of NY) 31 – Friends of Track NYC Reception (Location TBD, Following Heps XC Championships at Columbia)

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