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...other side of the court, Lowell Coach Ann Leonard's team started to wake up. No one on the Crimson side really started to worry until its advantage was reduced to 12-10. Then a huge backrow kill by Lowell forward Marybeth Flemming was the first of three unanswered points which put Harvard behind for the first time in the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Spikers Humble Lowell in Three Sets | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

...With the score tied, 6-6, and Harvard serving, Springfield's back row setter hit the ball over the net as he stood inches from the net. Harvard promptly killed the weak hit but was called for brushing the net. The referee apparently failed to realize that a backrow player hit the ball from inside the 10-foot line...

Author: By Tai Wong, | Title: Springfield College Sweeps M. Spikers | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...bright spots for the spikers was Lee Polikoff, who came off the bench and provided the Crimson with some tough backrow play...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Bruins Tip Spikers | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...night before adjournment the gentleman from Oklahoma got the floor and continued to hold it through to the end by the simple method of refusing to yield to other Senators. From his backrow seat he talked slowly, steadily about Oil, pausing now and then to catch his breath while fumbling through stacks of papers on his desk. He reviewed the entire industry ; at great length he tried to give his colleagues a concept of ten billion dollars; he talked about Indians; he drawled over long wordy contracts. Nobody listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 71st's End | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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