With the rest of the College off for break, The Back Page is keeping up with the Harvard men’s basketball team as it wraps up its non-conference schedule. In the first in a series of previews of the squad’s upcoming match-ups, David Freed looks at what Vermont brings to the table.

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For Juanky Perdomo, freshman year didn’t just involve a record-setting number of hours in Lamont, or a trophy for most Annenberg cookies eaten in one sitting. Instead, Perdomo decided to champion the sailing world by becoming the first Harvard sailor in six years to compete at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Single-handed National Championship.

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When the Harvard Football team (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) welcomes Penn (4-4, 3-2 Ivy) for its Senior Day on Saturday, the fate of the Ancient Eight will once again be in the balance. The Crimson finds its Ivy League title chances resting on a win against the Quakers, as a victory and Princeton loss would put Harvard in first place. Nonetheless, there are no guarantees when it comes the gridiron in the Ancient Eight, as Harvard has been in this same situation multiple times against Penn in recent years.

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After seeing their team fall to the laughably bad and previously winless Jacksonville Jaguars, it’s hard to be a Tennessee Titans fan right now. The silver lining, at least for Harvard sports followers, is that Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 will be under center for at least the next few weeks.

Late in the first half of Sunday’s game, starting quarterback Jake Locker went down with yet another injury, this time to his foot. Sources say that the injury will require surgery.

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After scoring 43 goals in an illustrious four-year career at Harvard, Kate Buesser ’11 now has one at the international level for Team U.S.A. women’s hockey. Her score was the first of an eight-goal onslaught against Sweden that earned the U.S. National team a third place result at the Four Nations Cup.

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