Lafayette Football Team has Questions to Answer as Spring Practice Begins

04-02-2009 03:59 PM

Lafayette Football Team has Questions to Answer as Spring Practice Begins

For four years, Lafayette played some of its best football in the final month of the regular season – it won three in a row in 2007, four in a row in 2006 and three of the last four in 2005 and 2004.

Last fall, the Leopards went in the other direction. A season of promise fell apart down the stretch when they lost three of the last four, including their first since 2003 to arch-rival Lehigh. The final record, a respectable 7-4, had a distinctly unfulfilled feel.

That’s the way it is when the bar has been set as high as coach Frank Tavani and company raised it while establishing Lafayette as a perennial favorite in the Patriot League.

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