what does ""the crimsons' meanest lineman"mean?is "Crimsons" a name of a soccer team? This had been an administration of young men, and it was small children who were to give the parents their cruelest moments. David climbed in sturdily, clutching a toy telephone. He dialed a number, dialed another. Encountering no more success than adults in Georgetown, he suddenly looked over. "Jack's hurt," he said with seven-year-old innocence. "Why did somebody shoot him?" Markham realized that the child didn't know his uncle was dead. He looked away. At Harvard he had been known as the Crimsons' meanest lineman, but he wasn't that tough.