The Crimson players got another break soon after they found they would be playing a man up for the rest of the game.

Less then a minute after he had scored the opening goal, Ara was decked by a Brown defender Seth Quidachay-Swan.

He was immediately issued a red card and taken off the field. Ara remained on the ground for a few minutes but was eventually able to get up and walk off the field—and, of course, return later to score again.

“I had megged one kid and passed it off,” Ara said. “Then the ball got played back to me, and he hit me in the face with an elbow, but the ref didn’t see it. Then the [Quidachay-Swan] knocked me down with his elbow and got the red card.”

The action was physical all game long.

Five players in all recieved yellow cards, and play was constantly stopped for penalties and injuries.

Fritz, playing with a cast on his hand, set the tone for Harvard early by crashing into the Brown goalie on three consecutive possessions in the beginning of the first half.

“That’s the way it always is with Brown,” Fritz said. “That’s their style of play. They’re bruisers. Last year they came and knocked us around, so we couldn’t let that happen again.”

The physical style of play may have left Harvard with a few players injured.

Both Cornish (knee) and senior Mike Lobach (hamstring) are questionable for Harvard’s game against Providence tomorrow, when they will try to extend their winning streak to five games.

—Contributing writer James Sigel can be reached at sigel@fas.harvard.edu.