Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scrappily-played game took place on the Business School field and for the first 20 minutes, at least, Harvard was all business. The ball didn't enter the Harvard half of the field until five full minutes had been played. When it did, it rolled peacefully over the mid-line on a Harvard back pass...
Moments later, the Harvard bench leapt to its feet, arms raised in apparent celebration of a Michael Smith goal. Smith banged a ball from inside the penalty area that appeared to go inside the right post. Miraculously, however, Coombs managed to tip it wide...
Within minutes, at 17:09, the Harvard bench jumped up again--this time with justification. Another Villar to Keller-Sarmiento cross ended with a soft right foot shot into an empty goal. Coombs had come out to corral the ball but let it slip out of his grip...
Reaping the benefits of their preseason labors, the well-conditioned Crimson booters proved much stronger than Tufts as Harvard netted the ball three times in the final 17 minutes of the game...
...only did the Harvard forwards show exceptional ball control--outshooting the Jumbos 37-1--they also displayed depth as four different players scored and the second string forward line notched as many points as the starters...