“It was actually pretty nice [seeing] the confidence [my teammates] had in me in the huddle,” Fitzpatrick said after the game.

The status of all three injured players for next week is still uncertain.

Kick It Into Gear

After a strong start to the 2001 campaign, the Harvard kicking game and special teams have fallen on hard times the last two weeks.

Last week at Cornell, sophomore kicker Robbie Wright missed two field goal attempts and subsequently lost his starting job to junior Anders Blewett.

Blewett made all four of his extra point attempts versus Princeton but attempted no field goals.

The Tigers clearly outpaced the Crimson in the kicking department with Northrup displaying both his kicking and punting talents.

Before missing the crucial 49-yard attempt in the closing seconds, Northrup had connected on field goals of 42 and 43 yards and had banked two extra points high off the side of the Murr Center.

In the punting department, Northrup used amazing distance and hangtime on his kicks to average 41 yards per punt and allow only two returns for ten yards to Crimson punt returner Carl Morris.

Meanwhile, for Harvard, sophomore punter Adam Kingston, who was averaging nearly 42 yards per kick coming into the game, struggled mightily and managed only slightly over 31 yards per punt against Princeton. As a result, the Tigers had a 17-yard advantage in average starting field position over the course of the game.