Word: balled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lone tally came after one minute of the final quarter. Bart Lechalier, Eli right inside, dribbled through the Harvard defense and booted a low hard kick which seemed to be aimed wide of the goal. Center forward Tom Hopkins managed to get a foot in the path of the ball and deflected it just enough to send it high into the lefthand corner of the nets...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 18--It was brains over brawn on Yale Field today, as the Harvard soccer team downed Yale, 2 to 0, by playing short, accurate ball all the way. Scoring once in the second period and again at the beginning of the fourth, Coach Bruce Monro's team made a heavy, "boot-and-run" Eli outfit play Harvard's game all the way except for a few shaky minutes at the beginning...
...game opened with Harvard coordinating poorly. The halfback line, key to moving the ball into scoring position, was not working well, and for nearly a full period Yale had the edge. At the end of the period Harvard had muffed two excellent scoring chances...
...Goldstein broke through the Yale defense again at 5:45 of the fourth period when he charged into a pile in front of the goal and banged the ball across the goal mouth into the far corner...
...last ten minutes of play, Monro shifted his lineup and packed his defense to hold off Yale. This lineup controlled the ball for the duration of the game as time and fatigue caught up with the desperate Elis...