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...Schindel’s. And even before his final kick—the 29-yard clincher in the second overtime—soared between the goal posts, Schindel raised his arms outward in celebration, gliding the length of the field before piling atop senior punter Mike King while the two were themselves swallowed in a pile of Crimson jerseys. Not a bad outcome for a player whose position usually draws attention only when the kick doesn’t split the uprights...
Listen, instead, to Fitzpatrick explaining the drive to make the dream of an undefeated season of his own a reality, and how his favorite moment of the season was not the 35-3 win over Yale, or the 31-10 clincher over Penn, or even the moment that 21-point deficit against the Bears was erased...
After the closely fought second game, the third frame was anticlimactic. The Nittany Lions’ defense—notching 11 team blocks, eight more than Harvard—shut down the Crimson attack, holding Harvard to a negative hitting percentage en route to a 30-15 clincher...
...evidence included a "cluster" of nine patients in and around Los Angeles; each had had sex with people who later developed AIDS-related diseases. It was bolstered by the growing number of intravenous drug users infected by the disease. Addicts share germs when they share needles. Then came the clincher: cases of AIDS in hemophiliacs and later in recipients of donor blood. The pattern resembled that of hepatitis B, a blood-borne and sexually transmissible virus that is common among drug addicts, blood recipients and gay men. AIDS cases among Haitian men and women remained a puzzle until...
Facing a 15-point deficit with only 10:45 left in last night’s title-clincher against Dartmouth (16-10, 12-2 Ivy), Harvard (20-7, 12-2) ripped off a 26-4 run in less than eight minutes and willed itself to a 70-67 victory—and with it, a share of the Ivy League championship...