I'm sorry that more of you didn't make it out to Harvard football games this year. You missed a hell of a team.

Harvard (9-1, 7-0 Ivy) simply would not let its Ivy title drive be stopped, whether it was losing seven starters to injury or blowing a 20-point lead to Bucknell. It was, to use a cliche, a team of destiny.

Nobody could have known this class would go out like this. The seniors arrived to a brand new coach, Tim Murphy, and promptly went 4-6. Then 2-8. Then 4-6. But this year, Harvard could do no wrong.

The proof came against Princeton. Harvard was trailing 12-8 when sophomore Mike Giampaolo booted a 21-yard field goal. That's uneventful enough, except that the ball was tipped and still went through.

The Crimson got the ball back on the Tiger's next possession. How? The quarterback fumbled the snap. By now, you should be hearing "Twilight Zone" music.

After the offense bogged down, in trotted Giampaolo again. He coolly nailed a career-long 43-yard field goal for the win.

Things just got better after that 14-12 win. The Crimson shut out Dartmouth, came back from 10 down to beat Brown, then shut out Penn. The Yale game was close, but the talent gap was too vast.

Last week, the All-Ivy selections were announced. And Harvard, as you would expect from a league champion, was all over the list.

Senior offensive tackle Matt Birk, the cornerstone of the line and the best o-line-man in the league, was a unanimous selection. So was sophomore running back Chris Menick, who broke Harvard's single-season rushing and touchdown records.

Defensively, senior end Tim Fleiszer and tackle Jason Hughes were first-team linemen. Both spent most of the game in the opponents' backfields disrupting running plays and sacking the quarterback.

Also on the first team defense was last year's Rookie of the Year, Isaiah Kacyvenski. He wasn't glamorous, but he made a ton of tackles and was a run-stuffer on a team which was impossible to run against.

Senior end Chris Smith, who ended as Harvard's all-time sack leader, was a second-teamer but played well enough to be on the first team. He probably lost out on reputation alone to Penn's Mitch Marrow, since Smith had more tackles and sacks.

Joining Smith on the All-Screwed list was sophomore quarterback Rich Linden, who earned second-team honors but should have been selected ahead of Brown's Jason Perry. Perry had better stats because Brown threw a lot more than Harvard this year. The threat of Linden's passing is what made this the most potent offensive attack the school has had in decades.

Sophomore wideout Terence Patterson, who made big plays all year--including scoring three touchdowns against Dart-mouth--joined Linden on the second team. Seniors Jared Chupaila (Honorable Mention) and Colby Skelton were equally deserving, but Harvard spread the ball around so much that neither accumulated enough statistics to get the necessary votes.

Even so, in a third-and-eight, there isn't a trio of receivers I'd rather have.