"Basically, you're looking at a guy who for four years has never dropped a ball," said Murphy of the punt. "It was kind of a fluke thing."
Another fluke came in the second quarter, when a Bear punt went cascading off of senior cornerback Kane Waller's leg as he concentrated on blocking and lost track of the ball. Waller had no chance to get out of the way.
Overall, the loss was as close as Harvard's previous two and might have ended Harvard's title chances. With Brown's two remaining games against last-place teams, the Crimson will need serious help to catch the Bears again.
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"I feel like we've hit rock bottom," said Kacyvenski. "This feels even worse than the Cornell loss."