away games or at team dinners, my team- As someone who feels especially grate- year, describes her time on JV as one of her mates have shared with me valuable ad- ful for the opportunity to be part of a JV best experiences at Harvard. “People vice about writing a thesis, applying for team, I believe strongly that the Univer- choose their entire day in college, and the fellowships, and taking the LSATs. On one sity should continue to support and rec- fact that people choose to do JV field memorable ride to Brown, the entire van ognize JV sports. During the course of hockey speaks for itself,” she says. After came alive with a fiery discussion of the the season, my teammates and I arrived two years of sampling the best activities at Harry Potter books and the first feature to practice several times only to find the Harvard—the Crimson, the CHANCE tu- film, and so I discovered among my team- gate to the stadium locked or the sta- toring program, my job at the Davis Center mates the die-hard Potter fans I had been dium lights turned o≠, costing us the for Russian Studies—I can appreciate her searching for at Harvard. evening—something that would hardly words. And then there are those moments that happen to a varsity team. “Harvard is so Returning from a hiatus of nearly three have made the season especially memo- proud of their 41 varsity teams, but to years was an intimidating venture at first. rable to me. Traveling to games outside of maintain that position they also need to I knew only one person on the team—my Cambridge, I had the rare opportunity to respect JV and club teams,” says Daphne friend Lauren. Her advice was invaluable. enjoy the landscape of New England be- Reeve. “Even if they’re not feeder teams, Joining JV field hockey has been one of the yond the Yard. Watching the mosaic of they’re all part of the larger athletic com- smartest things I have done at Harvard. It changing foliage from a van window on munity.” has brought a balance to my life that I the way to western Massachusetts, I was I spoke recently with Bob Scalise, the thought might be impossible in the hectic reminded of how rarely I stop to enjoy new athletic director, about the role of JV and often isolating environment here. It the beautiful river walk outside my win- teams at Harvard. Fortunately, he agrees has given me the opportunity to meet a dow. I also had the chance to play one that they are a vital part of the Harvard wonderful group of people who otherwise game when my father was in town on a athletic landscape. “I think JV sports pro- would have floated by in the Yard, their business trip. He and my roommate sat in vide a great opportunity for broad partici- paths at the College never intersecting the stands during our rematch against pation in the intercollegiate program at with mine. And it has made me regret, in the Springfield College team that had de- Harvard,” he told me. “There are people the most bittersweet of ways, that I left feated us the previous weekend. They who come back as alumni who really value my field-hockey stick in the basement watched as I scored the goal that broke the fact that we were able to provide them when I drove o≠ to Harvard my freshman the scoreless tie. I was just happy to con- with the opportunity to play competi- year. tribute something to a team that has tively, even though they were not varsity made the di≠erence in my junior year athletes.” Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow here, and to have shared that experience My teammate Katie Heller, who has Eugenia Levenson ’03 is a history and literature with two of my fans in the stands. played on the team since her freshman concentrator, focusing on the United States.

SPORTS Football: 9-0

fter a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied champions, in a clash of unbeaten title in 1997. Perfect seasons have been far by inopportune turnovers and sec- contenders, Harvard completed its first fewer. No Crimson team had achieved one ond-half meltdowns, head football undefeated, untied season in 88 years with since the glory days of coach Percy A coach Tim Murphy took a new ped- a tension-filled, 35-23 victory at Yale Bowl. Haughton, whose 1912 and 1913 elevens agogical tack. “You can talk about a hun- For three years running, the Crimson finished 9-0. The teams of 1875-76, 1890, dred things to your team during the pre- had led Yale in the last period of The 1898, and 1901 also went unbeaten and un- season, but I only talked about two,” he Game, only to fold in the final minutes. tied. said in September. “Ball security, and Not this time. “Beat Yale and you hit the The 2001 team will be remembered for finishing o≠.” The new-model Murphy trifecta,” Murphy had said before the the brilliant playmaking of quarterback Method worked wonders. This year’s game. “You end the losing streak against Neil Rose and split end Carl Morris, an team gave up just nine turnovers (three them. You win the Ivy championship out- all-Ivy passing duo; for the work of its fumbles, six interceptions), as against 36 right. And you have the perfect season.” stout o≠ensive line and the running of the previous season, and rebounded from The outright title is Harvard’s fourth two small, scrappy backs, Josh Staph and halftime deficits in four of its nine wins. since the Ivies began round-robin play in Nick Palazzo; and for the big plays turned Besting Penn, the defending Ivy League 1956. The most recent championship came in by the defensive unit. Though the

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under way. A pair of crucial de- fensive plays helped set up two more passing touchdowns. On the Quakers’ next possession, Ho≠man’s long third-down heave was deflected by defensive back Benny Butler and hauled in by back Willie Alford. Four plays later, Morris made the catch of the season, putting Har- vard ahead for good with a fingertip grab of a 40-yard pass from Rose. Leaping over defend- ing back Stephen Faulk, Morris snared the ball at the Penn 20- yard line, faked Faulk to the turf, and streaked into the end zone. Harvard’s second defensive gem came in the final period, when Rodney Thomas, a reserve While Rose and Morris controlled the skies, Nick Palazzo—shown scoring the Crimson’s first touchdown— tailback and special-teams helped Harvard humble Penn’s previously impregnable defense against the run. player, blocked a punt at the team had ever gone on to win after trailing winning streak, the longest of any NCAA Penn 30-yard line. Pump-faking toward by 21 points. Division I-AA team. Its rushing defense the sideline, Rose found Staph all alone Harvard was expected to handle Co- ranked first in the nation; its o≠ense with his back to the end zone, awaiting a lumbia, and it did. The Lions cheered the starred strong-armed quarterback Gavin pass that would give Harvard a two- sparse Wien Stadium crowd by scoring Ho≠man, the previous season’s Ivy League touchdown lead. Though the Quakers on the game’s first drive, but with Rose on player of the year, and tailback Kris Ryan, managed one more score in the game’s the job again and throwing well, Harvard the league’s top rusher. Though Harvard waning minutes, Rose ran enough time o≠ cashed in on all six of its first-half posses- had not beaten the Quakers since 1997, the the clock to avoid a replay of the night- sions to seize a 38-7 lead at the break. Co- last two contests had gone down to the mare finish of ’99, when Ho≠man, with a lumbia wouldn’t quit, scor- wire. fourth-and-10 at midfield and 81 seconds ing 26 points in the last ONE FOR THE BOOKS Penn started auspi- to play, made good on a 50-yard despera- two quarters, but the game Scoring at least four touch- ciously, taking an early 14- tion pass to pull out a 21-17 win. was no contest. Morris, downs per game, the football 0 lead on two long scoring The game drew a crowd of almost making more spectacular team recorded Harvard’s first plays: a 37-yard pass from 15,000—whopping, by Stadium standards. perfect season since 1913. catches with each appear- Ho≠man to wide receiver Euphoric partisans occupied the field ance, had nine receptions at Holy Cross (canceled) Colin Smith, and Ryan’s after the game, then moved on to Dillon Brown W 27-20 and a pair of touchdowns, Lafayette W 38-14 66-yard breakaway. With Field House, where the football squad re- establishing him as Har- Northeastern W 35-20 Rose once more at the con- grouped to belt out two choruses of “Ten vard’s all-time leader in ca- at Cornell W 26-6 trols, Harvard responded Thousand Men of Harvard,” including the reer reception yards and Princeton W 28-26 in characteristic style, Band’s traditional dog-Latin version. Dartmouth W 31-21 touchdown catches. Rose at Columbia W 45-33 striking back with four As one of the few unbeaten teams in had completed 14 of 16 pass Pennsylvania W 28-21 consecutive touchdowns. upper-echelon college football—keeping attempts when a recur- at Yale W 35-23 “When we got down by 14, company, at the time, with Miami, Ne- rence of his neck injury nobody flinched,” Rose braska, Brigham Young, Sacred Heart, and forced him out in the second quarter. would say after the game. “Usually guys Lehigh—Harvard was drawing an un- Staph, returning to action, scored twice; will be screaming, trying to get other guys accustomed amount of press coverage. On Palazzo, his reliable alter ego, rushed for up, but everyone was very calm.” the day of the Penn game, a 2,000-word 132 yards, clinching the win with a 32-yard Harvard’s ground game was working lead piece in the New York Times’s sideline scamper in the final period. well against Penn’s vaunted defense, cre- “SportsSaturday” was headlined, “This With identical 7-0 records, Harvard ating aerial opportunities for Rose and his Fall, Perfect Record Makes Harvard a Hot and Pennsylvania would now contest for receivers. Palazzo’s 1-yard plunge and Ticket.” The Yale game, played at the Bowl at least a share of the Ivy title in a Battle of Blewitt’s conversion kick made it 14-7 at a week later, was scarcely a sellout, but the Unbeatens at the Stadium. Always a for- the half, and Rose’s 20-yard zinger to Mor- 51,000 fans who bought tickets were midable foe, Penn was riding an 11-game ris evened the score as the third period got treated to a hotly contested match that

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medical-hardship dispensation that will sophomore), as well as the most scoring nior end Marc Laborsky. Penn also had let him play as a fifth-year senior. Rose is passes (12, bettering the record of 8 he eight first-team choices.…Senior tailback the first quarterback to captain a Harvard shared with Pat McInally ’75). He also Josh Staph made the Verizon District team since Carroll Lowenstein ’52 in 1951. holds career records for catches (155), One All-Academic team, along with An economics concentrator from Mililani, yardage (2,200), and touchdown recep- Stark and senior defensive end Phil Hawaii, he lives in Currier House (see tions (20).…The versatile Morris has Scherrer. Hobbled for much of the season “Buttonhook and Aloha,” September-Oc- thrown four passes for Harvard, complet- by a sprained ankle, Staph had his third tober 2001, page 77). ing three for 111 yards. He ran the ball half hundred-yard rushing day of the season Made to Be Broken: Rose and Morris a dozen times this season, and returned against Yale. He and junior Nick Palazzo kept up unremitting assaults on the Har- punts as well. gave Harvard the league’s most produc- vard record book. In the Yale game, Rose Laurels: Morris’s teammates voted him tive rushing attack. set records for career passing yardage the team’s most valuable player. He also re- Just Perfect: Tim Murphy was named (4,511) and career touchdown passes (33). ceived the Bushnell Trophy, awarded to the New England Coach of the Year by area The previous year he’d set records for total Ivy League’s most outstanding performer, sportswriters. He was similarly honored o≠ense, touchdown passes in a season and was one of eight Harvard players after the 9-1 season of 1997. “Overcoming (18), pass attempts, pass completions, and picked for the all-Ivy first team. Joining the deficits, the injuries, and the adversity passing yardage. His record as a starter is him on the all-Ivy o≠ensive team were is what is so special about this team,” said 13-4.…Morris, in his junior year, holds Rose, senior center Jason Hove, and senior Murphy after the Yale game. The Game it- nearly every Crimson receiving record. guard Justin Stark. Named to the defensive self, he added, was “the perfect ending to a His second touchdown catch against Yale team were senior cornerback Willie Al- perfect season.” In Murphy’s eighth sea- gave him the most receptions in a season ford, sophomore linebacker Dante Bal- son at Harvard, the nine Ws posted by his (71, breaking the record of 60 he set as a estracci, senior safety Andy Fried, and se- team raised his record to 43-37. “cleat”

Moore,” March-April 2000, page 88). The power plays—which did result in several “A Force on the Ice” brethren hail from Thornhill, Ontario, a fraternal goals by Steve and Dominic. Dominic Moore has a lamplighter’s gifts. suburb of Toronto (“the hockey capital of Dominic has a gift for “lighting the the world,” says Dominic) and all three lamp”—turning on the red light behind There has been a Moore on the ice for have been drafted by National Hockey the net that signals a goal. At Harvard, he Harvard since 1996, when Mark Moore ’00 League teams. Each Moore has his talents, started fast, posting 24 points on 12 goals matriculated. His brothers, Steve ’01 and but when it comes to scoring, Dominic has and 12 assists as a freshman, then jumping Dominic ’03, followed, making them the done, well, Moore than his elders. to 44 points with 16 goals last year to lead first fraternal trio to skate for the Crimson Though the brothers have skated to- the Crimson. The 6 foot, 1 inch, 193-pound and only the sixth such triumvirate in col- gether since childhood, they never played Moore ranked among the ECAC’s top five lege hockey history (see “Gimmee Some on the same team before Harvard. “It was in eight o≠ensive categories, including special—having game-winning goals, in which he led the [Mark and Steve] conference with six. “Dominic’s an explo- there,” Dominic sive skater,” says head coach Mark Maz- says. “And they zoleni. “A lot of guys play at one speed. are good to have But Dominic has that ability to skate fast on the team.” But and then accelerate.” Mazzoleni adds that since Mark was a Moore “plays with finesse, and has a defender and Steve strong feel for the game. Dominic has also (last year’s cap- made a commitment to becoming a better tain) and Dominic player. This year, for example, he gained 10 centered di≠erent pounds of muscle mass in the o≠-season. lines, there were That matters, because if you don’t have Moores on the ice strength, guys can lean on you when you together only for have the puck.” penalty kills and Team Crimson is also gaining strength as they continue to improve under third- Dominic Moore, year coach Mazzoleni. In a preseason Harvard’s leading USA Today poll, Harvard ranked eighth in scorer last year, takes a breather the country, after going unranked a year at Bright Hockey ago. Still, it’s a young squad, with 16 Center. freshmen and sophomores, and has had

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Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For copyright and reprint information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at www.harvardmagazine.com its problems early on. Harvard was upset by Brown, 4-2, and trounced by Vermont, Fall Sports in Brief 5-1, and hurt by injuries to forwards Aaron Kim ’03 and Brendan Bernakevitch Men’s Soccer ’05, and the abrupt departure of freshman The men’s soccer team (10-5-1, 5-2 Ivy) finished third in the Ivies, having reeled off a defender Jesse Lane, who left to play pro- five-game winning streak in midseason.The booters bounced back from a tough 1-0 fessional ice hockey in the Quebec Major loss to Dartmouth to beat Columbia and Penn, both by 1-0 scores, before falling to Junior A Hockey League. The youthful Brown, 3-0, in the final regular-season game. Had they beaten the Bears, Harvard Crimson also paid the price for taking would have notched its first outright Ivy title since 1996; Brown’s victory allowed penalties that Mazzoleni considered “un- them to share the league championship with Princeton. However, on the strength of necessary”; Moore himself had to sit out its superior overall record, Harvard and not Brown won a bid to the NCAA tourna- the Cornell game due to a misconduct ment. (Princeton took the Ivy NCAA slot, having defeated Brown, 3-0, during the call near the end of a 3-3 tie with Dart- season.To add even more interest, Harvard beat Princeton, 1-0, in October.) In the mouth. NCAA’s first round, Harvard fell to Rutgers, 1-0. Yet Harvard’s strengths augur well for the season ahead. Junior forward Brett Women’s Soccer Nowak, who was selected last year for the The women booters (11-6, 4-3 Ivy) rolled out a strong, streaky campaign, at one point U.S. National Junior Team, scored the vanquishing eight straight opponents, including six shutouts—and yielding only two game-winner in overtime as Harvard up- goals over the stretch. Their regular season ended with a 3-1 loss to Penn, placing ended Cornell, 4-3, in November, and got them fourth in the league, behind Princeton, Penn, and Dartmouth. At the NCAA another goal plus an assist the next night tournament, the Crimson polished off Hartford, 1-0, in four overtimes, on a “golden in a 6-1 thrashing of Colgate. This year’s goal” by Beth Totman ’03.But in the second round, Connecticut ended Harvard’s sea- freshmen include a big defender, Noel son, 1-0. Welch, whose goal tied the Cornell game with only 40 seconds remaining in regula- Field Hockey tion. Another freshman, Tom Cavanagh, The stickwomen (11-6, 5-2 Ivy) had a strong fall, losing only to Princeton (5-2) and notched a goal and an assist against Cor- Dartmouth (4-2) in the Ancient Eight.The Crimson finished third in the league, be- nell; his father is two-time all-American hind the same two colleges. Harvard closed out its fall with four wins, including three Joe Cavanagh ’71. Sophomore forwards shutouts. Tyler Kolarik and Tim Pettit skate on the line that Moore centers. One of the Women’s Volleyball ECAC’s finest, quickest skaters, Kolarik The netwomen (10-14, 3-11 Ivy) beat Dartmouth and split their home-and-home se- notched 28 points with 13 goals last year ries with Yale, but had trouble with other league teams. Outside hitter Erin Denniston and led all players in scoring at the ECAC ’02 finished the year with 1,474 kills, breaking the Harvard career record of 1,398 set tournament with 3 goals and 6 assists. by Elissa Hart ’98. Pettit scored 31 points and 14 goals last year to become the top-scoring freshman in the ECAC; he was also Ivy League (Dominic himself played on Harvard’s ciology and hopes eventually to play pro- Rookie of the Year. Team captain Peter tennis team as a freshman, but since then fessional hockey, as his older brothers are Capouch ’02 anchors the defense. hasn’t been able to make time for both rac- doing. Mark skates for a Pittsburgh Pen- The six tallies against Colgate suggested quet and stick.) guins farm team, and Steve is in the Col- Harvard’s o≠ensive potential, and Moore, Following in his brothers’ ice tracks, orado Avalanche organization. The New who had an assist that night, is one of Dominic played his first hockey at four; York Rangers drafted Dominic after his those rare players with the “scoring gene.” the family made a rink for the boys in the freshman year, giving them a right of first “It’s mostly an instinctive thing,” he says. backyard. In time he played with the Au- refusal should he turn pro. “The game is so dynamic—you’ve got to be rora Tigers in Canada’s “Tier II Junior A” But that is the future; the present is un- able to read and react, to be in the mo- hockey league. (“Major Junior A” players folding at Bright Hockey Center. Last year ment. You’ll get some chances. One of the are professionals, ineligible for intercolle- Harvard went 16-15-2, finishing second in biggest keys is anticipating, seeing things giate hockey.) In his last year with Au- the Ivies to Yale and third in the ECAC, before they happen.” rora—and senior year at St. Michael’s, a having been seventh the year before. As Moore began building those skills dur- boys’ parochial school—he amassed 100 the season progresses, look for the Crim- ing an athletic childhood, playing soccer, points on 36 goals and 64 assists in 60 son to try to get the puck to Moore when basketball, and tennis, and learning to games. He was his team’s Most Valuable the score is tight and time is waning. “In skate at age two. His mother is a former Player and a finalist for Player of the Year the crucial parts of the game, he wants the triathlete and his father has won the in the 40-team Ontario League. puck on his stick,” says Mazzoleni. “He’s a Canadian over-50 tennis championship. At Harvard, Moore concentrates in so- real force on the ice.” craig lambert

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