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Can You Say Dynasty?

Howitt Matters

Me: Is this what you expected?

Hand: I think [freshman] Jeff Blumberg is the weak link of the team.

Blumberg looks unhappy about the prospects of such a comment appearing in a newspaper.

Blumberg: We treat all of our opponents with respect...

Me: [To Riley and Hand] Do you have any chance of winning a national championship this weekend?

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Riley: No, but anything's better than Princeton winning the championship.

Later, I ran into Blumberg and Harvard sophomore Andy Walter.

Me: [To Walter] How does it feel to win the Ivy League championship?

Blumberg: Put my quote in. But don't put in what David Hand said about me.

Walter: [To Blumberg] What did he say?

Blumberg reluctantly reveals what Hand had said.

Walter: How does a Yale player know our team that well?

You just don't find that kind of interaction after a Harvard-Yale football game. At least, I didn't.

It was just pandemonium.

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