Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throghout the remainder of the first period Harvard dominated play and a breakthrough seemed inevitable. Finally halfback John Gordon slipped a pass through to Gomez. The junior star shot the ball off a fullback's leg and the screened goalie could not compensate for the deflection in time...
Russ Bell single-handedly gave Harvard a 3-0 lead in the third period. A hard shot from far out bounced off a Dartmouth fullback and rolled slowly toward the goalie. Bell out-raced the Indian net-minder to the ball, took a quick step to his right and found himself standing on the goal line with no one in front of him. The sophomore right wing enthusiastically walloped the ball into the open...
...With the game all wrapped up. Harvard executed a basic scoring play to perfection. Goalie Meyers cleared the ball three-quarters of the field to Gomez, who in turn centered the shot from the wing to Phil Kydes in front. With his back to the goal. Kydes stopped the ball, spun and shot a line drive past the ???stretched arms of the goalie...
...game with a home run. And when the Mets could not hit, they found other, more devious ways of arriving at first base. Not even the umpire, for instance, knew that Batter Cleon Jones had been hit on the foot by a pitch -until Manager Gilbert Hodges produced the ball with shoe blacking on it. Some said that Hodges had carried that smudged ball in his pocket all season long, waiting for the wonderful moment when it would be needed...
Their outfielders grew sorely confused when baseballs flew their way; time after time, the balls landed safely between them. In the tenth inning of the fourth game, their pitcher hit a Met base runner on the wrist while trying to throw the ball to first. That blunder allowed the winning run to reach the plate and put the Orioles behind, three games to one. In the final game the Oriole pitcher and first baseman conspired to commit two errors on a single play (shades of Marvelous!) to permit the last, poetic Met run to score. The Oriole manager, a stocky...