Quotes of the Week (Oct. 11 edition)

In ‘Quotes of the Week’, The Back Page will look each weekend at the five best quotes of the week, providing context for the five best moments from the past seven days in Crimson sports.

“When I made the first cut, I pretty much saw daylight. So I knew I was going to be able to score. When I actually scored, it was the greatest feeling ever, the fact that we came out on top of such a game, one of the most brutal games I have played through. It was just a great feeling that I was able to do that for my team.” –Paul Stanton ‘16

The Crimson emerged from a grueling triple overtime contest with Holy Cross last Saturday, beating the Crusaders 41-35. Sophomore running back Paul Stanton scored from 17 yards out to win the game for Harvard, earning the John Turco Memorial Trophy for his performance, an award presented during Holy Cross’ annual homecoming game to the most outstanding player.

“The game that we played today was such a good team game. Every opportunity that we had was created by everyone on the team doing their job, and doing it at a 107,000 percent effort. It was so great to be a part of.” –Xanni Brown ‘14

Coming off a loss against Dartmouth the previous weekend, the women’s rugby team dominated Brown 57-7 last Saturday. The team came out strong from the start, scoring in under seven minutes and maintaining a sizeable lead until the final whistle.

“It was one of the more impressive performances I’ve seen as a coach. [Leakos] has been working hard, and you can see that he’s approaching training with a new mentality.” –cross country coach Jason Saretsky.

After finishing first at the Harvard-Yale cross country meet three weeks ago, co-captain James Leakos won the Paul Short Invitational 8k course this past weekend. Leakos raced among a talented pack of runners in Bethlehem, Penn. with a 23:13 time, running an impressive 4:21 per mile.

“We would love to win every game. But if we come out with a couple wins and a couple losses and progress as a team, that’s what we really want to do.” –Elizabeth Jacobson ‘16

The field hockey team beat UMass-Lowell 4-0 on Wednesday, ending its three-game losing streak. The Crimson got goals coming from three different players.

“I think we feel good. I think that we’re just looking to Cornell, just focusing on one game at a time, so we went through today, and now it’s all about focusing on Cornell and keeping that unbeaten streak.” –Elizabeth Weisman ‘14

Ending their six game winning streak, the Crimson tied BU Tuesday night. With no score on the board at the buzzer, the double overtime ended, 1-1, with the sole goal coming from freshman Midge Purce. Harvard remains undefeated in the Ivy League heading into its match against Cornell on Saturday.