Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is a soccer ball...
...introductions are necessary. In the land of baseball, football and basketball, the once funny-looking, 32-faceted, black-and-white soccer ball is a familiar sight, booted about schoolyards, dribbled across suburban greensward. And, finally, the international accents of professional soccer have taken on a definite American lilt as native-born players break into lineups long the preserve of the visa brigade...
...game moves upfield into the offensive positions, the drawbacks of a limited soccer background become obvious. Americans still cannot make the long, skittering run to the goal, delicately guiding the ball, that distinguishes players from Europe and South America. Those quicksilver skills come only after a lifetime's experience in the game, and American players, until recently, have simply taken up soccer too late. Notes Caribous veteran Forward Brian Tinnion: "In England, we learn to walk, we learn to run, and then we learn to play soccer...
...four-putt green and an 82. Senior Dave Paxton played a near impeccable front nine, then rose to the occasion at the long par-4 tenth hole and took, in the ever-inventive golf vernacular, a "snow man." "You know what a snow man looks like," said Paxton, "One ball of snow on top of another--an 8!" Paxton shot 81. George Arnold managed an 85. Alex Vik and Glenn Alexander eschewed the carnage in favor of hourlies...
...squads played dead even until ten minutes remained in the game. With the score deadlocked at 4-4, two UNH defenders converged on Harvard's Ellen Seidler as she was about to receive a feed from teammmate Sarah Mleczko. The three players collided before the ball arrived, and a Wildcat went down with a cut head...