Start off with the fact that Roger Caron's bicep is probably bigger than your head.

Then consider, through that he needs those huge upper arms just to left his 6-ft, 5-in 280-lb frame out of bed in the morning.

And Carton decides where he gets up because none of his roommates, not even 6-ft 9-in 225 lb. basket center Joe Carrabino is foolish enough to venture into Caron's bedroom when he's asleep.

Every Saturday, Caron's rommatcs get to see what happen to defensive linemen who get in the Kirkland House resident's way.

And it ain't a pretty sight.

Carton, an All Ivy selection as a junior last season, is the best offensive lineman in the Ancient Eight.

And he's made a brilliant collegiate career out of steamrollering defensive ends and linebackers who as to interfere with the progress of the Crimson running game.

He is what linemate Wayne Hunley calls, "Just the heart and the could of the line."

That's a line that allowed the Crimson to rush for over 300 yards in its first four league games and record a mere 299-yard total against Brown last weekend

That's a line that has made fullback Robert Santiago and tailback Mark Vignali the top two ground gainers in the Ivies.

And that's line that is also a big part of the reason why the Crimson is striving to become the first Harvard football team ever to go 7-0 in organized Ancient light play.

Despite the Crimson's success this year. Carton, unlike many lifetime football players, isn't jumping up and down talking about coming to play, working together as a team and using a lot of other meaningless cliches.

Carton has gone so far as to question his commitment to the game.

As a sophomore, a disillusioned Caron even quit the football team and decided to try, "being a 100 percent regular Harvard student."

After taking his spring semester off that year, Caron, now a fifth year senior, decided that regular wasn't good enough and and he returned to football with a vengeance.