Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shahin Shayan of Tehran , Iran proved to be the spiritual and physical leader of the Lions, as last year's Ivy scoring champ tallied once, and generated excitement every time he touched the ball...
...wasn't how badly Harvard played that made this game disturbing-- it was how they played badly. Harvard has retained all of last year's bad habits. It controlled the ball fairly well until the strikers reached the Lion's penalty area and defended effectively until sloppiness overcame the back lines in front of the Harvard goal...
...field and a slick ball combined with some questionable Crimson strategy to give the Lion's a few opportunities in the first ten minutes. "We got caught up trying to play short passes," Ford explained. Harvard's bunching led to two, carbon copy break-aways by Shayan within three minutes. In both cases, he took an alley-oop style pass from behind midfield and broke in behind a Crimson defender, moving his gawky frame with deceptive speed. Walsh charged Shayan, inducing him to shoot wide to the right from high in the penalty area...
...rare tropical disease that would not allow him to sweat, opened the scoring with a long, right-footed shot from the upper left hand corner of the penalty box. McElaney elected to let the shot go, expecting to take a goal kick, but a pronounced hook grazed the ball off the post and into...
...started out panicking a little bit and just hitting the ball, but later we started passing up the field," co-captain Chris Sailer said...