The worst part of the weekend, however, came when Harvard had to return to the tournament to play Boston College and MIT--both subpar teams.
Nonetheless, Harvard rolled by both teams. Disposing of Boston College, 14-6, Harvard lacked its typical drive in its 18-9 bashing of MIT.
"Despite the deep score against MIT, it was a lackluster performance," Benson said. "It took us a while to get it going against BC. Being defeated by Brown was deflating."
In its last week of practice, the Crimson will have to accept the fact that the Ivy League Tournament is the only chance left to make a statement to its critics and to itself. It may also have the opportunity to meet Brown one more time.
"We know we have one more chance at Brown and that is enough fire to get us up for next weekend," Davis said. "It will be a good tournament between [Brown, Princeton and Harvard] and also it will be a chance for us to maintain some of our pride to beat those two teams."
Any dream of the Eastern Championship have been washed away and that is quite a difficult fact to swallow for a team with such high hopes.
"The East is really wide open," Benson said. "Any team has the opportunity to win the Eastern Championships, and now we're left out."
Left out, maybe, but not dead just yet.
"There is no doubt in the last few weeks we have been focusing all our attention to beat Brown and to lose was emotionally exhausting," Davis said. "We have one more week of season, four more days of working as hard as we can and to suck it up and beat those teams.
There is a score to settle next weekend and the Crimson has one last chance to rid itself of the demon which has been plaguing it all season.
Perhaps then, Harvard will be able to allow this season to be laid down and rest in peace.