Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bison had beaten Harvard, 8-6, in a close contest earlier this year, and Pike had predicted that this outcome would be determined by a single goal. It was even closer than that. The teams knotted the score seven times in an up-and-down battle in which neither side could grab the lead...
...Bison showed determination throughout, rallying five consecutive times from one-goal deficits to retie the contest. Harvard, on the other hand, could never earn even the smallest breathing room...
Finally, with 2:20 left, a Bison man-up goal put Bucknell on top, 9-7. The Crimson fought back, with Fasi scoring his fourth goal 27 seconds later, but it could not convert for the rest of the game. The Bison finalized the score at 10-8 by throwing the ball into the unguarded Harvard net as the clock expired...
...Academy Awards time, and Dustin Hoffman wins again. This time, he's awarded Best Actor for his performance in Bison, in which he dresses as a lonely buffalo whose federal funding has been eliminated and whose range is being plundered by oil magnates. The elated Hoffman reveals that his next movie will be Dullsie, the story of the political career of John Glenn...
...Jeep ride around Hope, his 5,000-acre plantation south of Charleston, S.C., he identifies an indigo bunting and spots a pair of wild turkey hens. "I've got two baby bison, and one of them was born last week," he says happily, "... and baby geese, baby turkeys, plus I have two bears and there's alligators, and we're raising all kinds of ducks. I'm making a garden of Eden. It's amazing how tame things will get when you're not trying to kill them. Countries should act the same...