Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coppinger took them anyway. Eli quarterback Mike Rogan was moving his team swiftly late in the second quarter. Receiver Stratton had just dropped a bomb at the Harvard 3-yd. line, when Rogan went deep again...
...police there appear to be having some success at curbing the guerrillas' activities. Late in October, Dublin authorities seized a large shipment of contraband U.S.-made arms that included M60 machine guns, and last week they began the trial of two I.R.A. defendants charged with planting the bomb on Mountbatten's boat. Though the two, Francis McGirl, 24, and Thomas McMahon, 31, are pleading innocent, detectives testified that they had traces of gelignite explosive material, sand and paint from the boat on their clothing...
Rogan looked like he meant business, hitting split end Dan Stratton with a dazzling bomb at the Harvard 3, but the receiver couldn't hold on. Harvard cornerback, Peter Coppinger, stepped in two plays later to pick off an errant Rogan toss; his tight-rope return along the sidelines to the Yale 10 was called back on a Harvard blocking infraction. Starting from its own 39 instead, the Crimson offense stalled and kicked the ball away with half the second quarter remaining...
...appeared Harvard would stymie the Yale offense again after the punt, but a roughing the kicker penalty gave Yale new life at the Crimson 42. Steve Wool stepped in and returned the Yale offense to the morgue by picking off a Rogan bomb at the Harvard 17-yd. line. But the Crimson offense could not move the ball and was forced to punt it away with barely two minutes left at the half...
Following the kickoff, Yale tried a first-down bomb throw by its split end, but Coppinger came up with his second interception of the day and lowered the final Crimson boom on the waning Eli spirit...