*The Crimson, which earlier this season lost to Princeton in the Stadium, hasn't lost more than one Ivy game at home in a single season since 1979.

*The Crimson, which took a 38-7 drubbing at the hands of Penn a year ago, hasn't lost two straight to the Quakers since the 1941-42 seasons.

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One reason why Penn will beat Harvard:

*Jerry Berndt.

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By the way, Princeton is the only other team in the running for the 1985 Ivy title. But it would take a miracle for the Tigers to cop the crown.

To do so, Princeton would have to win its final two, Penn would have to lose its final two, and Harvard would have to beat Penn and lose to Yale.

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At 6-2 overall and 4-1 Ivy, Harvard has a shot to post its best overall record since the Ivy title season of 1968 and its best Ivy mark since the 1975 season, when Harvard won its only outright league crown.

Two season-ending wins would give the Crimson its first-eight-win season since John Yovicsin's 1968 troops went 8-0-1. They also would give the Crimson its first six-win Ivy campaign since Restic's championship year of 1975.

Keep in mind, though, that a Joe Restic-coached Harvard squad has never won its last three games of the season. The last time the Crimson won its final three was 1970, when Yoviscin's squad finished 7-2.

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Anyone who thinks the split end reverse and the halfback option are trick plays in the Harvard playbook is crazy.

Heck, they're mainstays.