saying, “How can I help you?” and “What versal? If we talk about how we want to this standard is the norm. I know it. I’ve needs to be done around here?” instead of behave, sooner or later, the community watched my Onaway girls figure it out, and “These are my personal goals,” and “This is will embody that behavior. We should I think my Harvard classmates can, too. what I have to do.” make the common image of a Harvard stu Our school is full of kind, generous, un dent not a smart, entitled self-promoter Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow selfish individuals. But what if we could but rather a generous, humble leader. We Isabel Ruane ’14 loves Harvard almost as much as make the spirit of these individuals uni are capable of creating community where she loves camp.
Sports 269 yards. He was intercepted three times, twice in the final quarter. Brown came within a yard of tying the game as the fourth period opened, but Hanging Tough freshman defensive end Zach Hodges knocked the ball loose on a handoff to Bear back Mark Kachmer, and linebacker Alex A night of self-discovery at the Stadium Norman ’13 recovered. Linebacker Josh Boyd ’13 led the defense with 11 tackles and a forced fumble, while ike Harvard Stadium’s Field Chapple was best against Brown when fellow linebacker and captain Alex Gede Turf surface, this year’s football the weather was worst. Midway through on ’12 had eight tackles. team seems weatherproof. Un the final quarter, with rain falling in A week earlier, in the team’s season- fazed by a rainstorm that intensi sheets, he uncorked a 56-yard scoring pass opening game at Worcester’s Fitton Field, Lfied as the game progressed, the gridders to receiver Adam Chrissis ’12, giving Har defensive letdowns had allowed Holy Cross gave Brown a 24-7 dunking in the teams’ vard a commanding 21-7 lead. to score 27 consecutive points after fall Ivy League opener, a Friday-night game Chapple had set up the Crimson’s first ing behind, 14-3, at the start of the second at the Stadium on September 23. Coach touchdown in the opening quarter, taking quarter. But it was an offensive letdown Tim Murphy, whose squads have defeated the snap on a fake field goal attempt at the that short-circuited a Crimson comeback Brown in 10 of the last 12 encounters, saw Brown 6-yard line and running for a first in what ended as a 30-22 loss. Early in the this one as a moment of self-discovery. “I down at the one. Scales scored on the next final quarter, with Holy Cross leading 23- think tonight we developed an identity,” play. On Harvard’s following series, a 25- 14, Harvard drove to the hosts’ 9-yard line, he said after the game. “We’re a tough, yard run by Scales put the team in Bruin where Winters attempted a goal-line pass physical team.” territory once again; Chapple then lofted to the team’s ranking receiver, Chris Lor Tough, physical, and resourceful. With a 20-yard pass to tight end Cameron Brate ditch ’11 (’12). Cornerback Andrew Zitnik, quarterback Collier Winters ’10 (’12) ’14, who made a spectacular one-handed the Crusaders’ rangiest defender, snared the nursing a pulled hamstring, junior Colton catch and toppled into the Chapple got the start against Brown. He end zone. directed the offense with authority and Harvard’s 14-0 lead was passed adroitly, completing 15 of 26 throws imperiled when Brown ad for a career-high 207 yards and two touch vanced to the Harvard 9-yard downs. Tailback Treavor Scales ’13 ran line later in the period, but with bruising power, scoring the game’s safety Dan Minamide ’12 end first touchdown and finishing with 129 ed the threat with an inter yards rushing. Despite the rain, the offen ception. The Bears’ only score sive unit and kicking teams finished the came in the third quarter, on game without fumbling. On the other side a 30-yard pass from Newhall- of the ball, the defensive unit was implaca Caballero to flanker Tellef ble, forcing five turnovers and hammering Lundevall. Newhall, who the Bears’ former all-Ivy quarterback, Kyle missed most of last season Newhall-Caballero. with a broken wrist, threw 52 As a third-stringer a year ago, Chapple passes and completed 28 for appeared in nine games and started three of them, but completed only 47 percent Backup quarterback Colton of his passes. It’s now evident that he has Chapple ably directed the mastered Harvard’s complex offense, posi Crimson offense in a 24-7 victory over Brown, complet- tioning him as the heir apparent to Win ing 15 passes for 207 yards ters, a fifth-year senior who is scheduled and two touchdowns in a to graduate in January. rainstorm.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Athletics Office Harvard Magazine 65 John Harvard's Journal ball near the sideline and raced 97 yards for a Tidbits: After the Brown win, backup ery competitor who also plays on the kick game-changing touchdown. Colton Chapple said of starter Winters: off team, was credited with three tack “I hurt for Collier. No one loves to play the les, three quarterback hurries, and a pass Will this be seen as the “Year of the game of football like he does. You can see the breakup against Brown. Quarterback in the Ivy League,” as a New intensity—that’s why he gets hurt all the Toughing it out: A crowd of 18,565 York Times headline proclaimed last Au time, he plays so hard. [He’s] a great leader. braved the Brown gust? It noted that Pennsylvania, Colum You can’t replace Collier.”…Winters missed game deluge.…Crimson bia, and Brown would each have former the 2008 season because of a torn leg muscle, teams are now 5-0 in Visit harvardmag. all-Ivy quarterbacks at the helm; that and sustained a similar injury in preseason night games at Har com/fitzpatrick-2011 to read about Buffalo Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Harvard practice a year ago. He played the last five vard Stadium. Bills quarterback Ryan would field battle-tested seniors; and that games of the season while his leg was still Resilience: Since Fitzpatrick ’05, who is Harvard’s Winters had outpassed a clutch mending, leading all Ivy quarterbacks with 2007, Harvard is 9-0 in having a banner year. of elite college quarterbacks in a summer- a 61 percent pass-completion rate. games following a loss. camp competition run by Archie, Peyton, New wrinkle: Harvard’s no-huddle of Lagniappe: A 31-yard field goal by kick and Eli Manning. fense now features a two-tight-end set, ing specialist David Mothander ’14 gave Coach Murphy was quoted as saying teaming six-foot-five sophomore Cameron Harvard its final points in the Brown that the season might be “the most com Brate and the versatile Kyle Juszczyk ’13. game. petitive in a long time. I don’t think you “It’s a quarterback’s dream to have those Leopards skinned: Tough defense en can look at a single team in our league that two [tight ends],” said Chapple after the abled Harvard to shut down Lafayette, doesn’t have an all-Ivy-caliber quarterback Brown game. “They’re big, they’re fast, 31-3, in the season’s third game, but a new back. That’s something I’ve never seen in they’ve got great hands.”…Brate, who did reserve quarterback, Michael Pruneau ’14, my 18 years in the league.” not see varsity action last year, caught 11 had to be mobilized when Chapple took a Yet only Yale, with former Nebraska passes in the team’s first three games. hard hit and was sidelined at halftime by backup Patrick Witt calling signals, was New faces: Freshman Seitu Smith III stiffness in his back. Harvard scored its able to post a W in both of its first two was a special-teams force in the Holy 31 points on a field goal by Mothander, outings. On the season’s first weekend, Cross opener, returning four kicks for a a short run by Scales, a short pass from Penn, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard total of 124 yards, with a long of 42. Other Chapple to Alex Sarkisian ’12, a short pass lost to Patriot League opponents. A week promising freshmen include defensive from Pruneau to Cameron Brate, and a 43- later, Cornell lost to Yale, while Penn lost lineman Zach Hodges, speedy tailback yard breakaway by Zach Boden, of whom to Villanova, Columbia lost to Albany, Zach Boden, and Will Whitman, a 6-6, more will likely be heard this season and Dartmouth lost to Sacred Heart, and 260-pound offensive tackle.…Hodges, a fi in seasons to come. v“cleat” Princeton lost—for the first time ever—to Bucknell. Not an auspicious prologue to the Ivy League wars. Court Sparks In recent seasons, Penn and Harvard have customarily been the Ivy front-run Two basketball co-captains with a nose for the hoop ners, with Brown and Yale a step or two behind and the four also-rans beating up Brogan Berry mates easy shots,” she says. “My main on one another in the league’s second divi goal is to get as many assists and as few sion. Penn, which normally fields the Ivies’ The point guard—the #1 position— turnovers as possible. That’s the first stat best defense, uncharacteristically yielded is the quarterback of a basketball team. I look at after a game: the assist/turnover 67 points in its first two games, but the She’s the floor leader, starting the attack ratio.” She must often have smiled last year Quakers, Ivy champions in 2009 and 2010, and shouting defensive signals. Much of in the locker room, as her ratio of 2.25 led still seemed likely to right themselves. Pat the team’s success or failure hinges on her the Ivy League and was tenth in the na rick Witt, on pace to break all Yale’s pass performance—and luckily, the Harvard tion. She also led the league in assists per ing records, could keep the Blue in con women’s squad is blessed with a quick game with 4.6. Berry talks less about her tention for its first Ivy title since the Eli dynamo of a point guard in Brogan Berry scoring, but in fact she topped the Crim shared it with Princeton in 2006. But if the ’12, a woman with a high “court IQ” who son and was second in the Ivy League, av injury-prone Collier Winters is good to knows how to make things happen. “She’s eraging 13.9 points per game (with a .453 go—and maybe even if he isn’t—Harvard a great facilitator,” says Keith Wright ’12, field-goal percentage in the Ivies, good should have something to say about that. men’s Ivy League Player of the Year (see for fifth in the league). During a game, she The most trenchant comment in the opposite). “Brogan is very unselfish, al might mentally run a little offense/defense Times text came from Columbia coach Nor ways looking for everyone else. She’s one tally with her opponent: “My girl is not ries Wilson: “A guy slips in the shower of those players, like Brandyn [Curry ’13, going to score more than me.” and you’re looking at the second-team guy. the men’s starting point guard], who can The five-foot, eight-inch Berry (“In I found last year that probably the most get wherever she wants to on the court.” college, you spend less time in the paint, important person on the team is the back Dishing the ball off is atop Berry’s pri where there are a lot more trees [tall play up quarterback.” ority list: “I love passing and getting team ers]”) has played “thousands of games
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