New Harvard coach loses first Ivy game for lack of my clock book. Prior Harvard coach had it.

The new Harvard coach lost his first Ivy game this season. Brown scored the winning points in the last seconds of the game. The Harvard coach apologized to his players, “There shouldn’t have been any time left on that clock for [Brown] to go down and score. That’s on me.”

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He also had a bad long snap on a FG which recover of which by Brown set up the winning score. I strongly suspect that the catch does not know that long snappers need at least 1,200 practice snaps before the first game. This was the second game of the season.

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I picked up the phone years ago I my home office. It was Tim Murphy, legendary head coach of Harvard. He was ordering my clock management book. After I took his credit card and address, I said, “I have a question.”

“What?”

“Why did you change your ind about my son getting an official visit to Harvard?”

“Who’s your son?’

“Dan Reed.”

“The Columbia tailback?”

“Yes.”

“He’s a good tailback.”

“I know. Why is he not a Harvard tailback.”

“I think it was his grades.”

After I told him my son’s SAT scores (above average for all Columbia students), he said, “You’re right. That’s top band. I don’t remember why we changed our minds on Dan.”

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The new coach should have bought my clock book and one of my books that tell about the need for the 1,200 snap reps.