Effort, effort and more effort. It was there. But the execution wasn't. The bottom line: loss.
What can you say? At this point, with tonight's contest at Yale the last stop on this three-and-a-half month season-trek, the players and coaches will just try to forget about this game and more on.
Which brings us to baseball. The Harvard-Brown game last night, in a strange way, brought to mind the words of the Oakland A's pitcher, who, when asked what he threw to get then-Toronto Blue Jay Danny Ainge out, replied: "Strikes."
Maybe throwing the ball down the middle of the plate isn't that easy. Sports, after all, are a lot easier to critique than to play.
But if Harvard had thrown strikes yesterday, simply strikes, this column would have been about a win, and not the loss that it was.
Peter K. Han is Crimson staff writer. He finished in second-place in the game's half-time paper airplane throwing contest.