Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn's number one tennis player. Murray Robinson, couldn't believe--or perhaps didn't want to believe--that the Crimson's Don Pompan had reached the ball before it bounced twice. Robinson knew that with the score at 4-2 in favor of Pompan in a third-set tie-breaker he had lost his grip on a match that he had begun by taking the first...
Faught opened the scoring for the Crimson with a pretty dodge and shot after eight minutes of a fairly lackluster first period had elapsed. Although Harvard's talented defense completely shut down the somewhat disorganized Ephmen attack and the Crimson monopolized the ground ball market, the team had taken no less than 19 fruitless shots before Faught finally broke...
...real stars of the game for the Crimson, however, were its unsavory (to opponents, anyway) crew of underclassmen defensemen--Scott Pink, Frank Prezioso, and Haywood Miller. The Ephmen attack consistently had difficulty getting the ball into the box, let alone moving it toward the cage. "Our defensive pressure was outstanding," Crimson coach and one-time national scoring champion (at Brown) Bob Scalise noted afterwards...
Coming off a 7-3 halftime lead. Harvard tried to settle the game down. "We tried to pass the ball around a lot to set up some ground shots from the outside," Kleinfelder said, adding that it was difficult to get the ball inside...
MacMillan said the laxwomen tried to whip wing-to-wing passes across the field and either set up ground shots from the outside, or give the ball to a feeder behind the net who would toss the ball out to one of the four-corner attackers...