Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Needing only one more first down to clinch the game, the Crimson once again put the ball in Menick's hands. But after a seven-yard carry on first down, Menick was stopped for a three-yard loss, putting Harvard in a third-and-6 situation. Fordham used its final timeout to stop the clock...
...most affecting performance is that of Ziemba, a hugely admired Broadway veteran whose face, a clown's mask of quiet desperation, suddenly dissolves into maniacal glee as she hears music in her head, grabs the headwaiter and pulls him into a clinch. The happiest surprise is Yates, a svelte ex-Rockette with legs that could make an archbishop sweat. But all the pistons in this engine stroke in the right order, and while you won't recognize any of the names unless you're a theater buff, their collective star quality is unquestionable...
...favorites for the Ivy championship," Ripmaster said. "We are confident that we can clinch the Ivy League title this year...
...spectacular play of sophomore James Blake, as well as from co-captains Kunj Majmudar and Mike Passarella, the Crimson (22-5, 7-0 Ivy) dominated the Ivy League yet again this season to clinch its fifth consecutive conference crown...
...Crimson kept rolling along, as it crushed Brown and Yale the subsequent week to clinch what it had expected to earn all along--a fifth straight Ivy League crown, its 10th in 11 seasons...