Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the score again knotted, the teams went into the overtime and both outfits opened up wide their offenses, sending five men down the ice in an attempt to clinch the affair. Harvard got the jump when Baldwin shot from his left wing, after the Crimson had kept the puck in Yale territory for a few minutes. Snyder saved, but the rubber bounded back to the waiting Saltonstall, who had nothing in the way of a score. The time was 2.15. Yale's endeavors to pull the game out of the fire were useless, and the laurels went to Harvard...
...look foolish by ducking the pitches of England's bowler, Harold Larwood, instead of trying to defend his wicket. Australia was set down for 175 runs. In a light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series and the Ashes when Paynter, batting with Ames, slogged out a boundary hit that ended the test, 519 to 515, with six wickets to spare...
Auburn, ready to clinch the Southern Conference championship against South Carolina at Birmingham, ran up a comfortable lead of two touchdowns in the first half. South Carolina made a 60-yd. march to a touchdown in the third quarter but it did not seem important; Auburn scored again soon after the kickoff. Then, in the last quarter, after a weak Auburn punt, South Carolina completed two passes for a touchdown; an Auburn fumble opened the way for another. South Carolina's Quarterback Hal Mauney kicked the goal that ended the game 20-to-20. first time Auburn has been...
...small practical help toward carrying Illinois. Mr. Lamont's Cabinet service was quiet, plodding, unspectacular. The President needs a more active, hustle- bustling figure to dramatize any business recovery, no matter how small, which might come before election. Mr. Chapin's appointment not only seemed to clinch Michigan for the Hoover-Curtis ticket but, of more importance, to open the automobile industry's money bags to the G. O. P. campaign...
While Yale was swamping the hitherto unbeaten Navy mermen at New Haven to clinch its eighth consecutive championship of the Intercollegiate League, the University swimming team fought its way to a 43-28 victory over Pennsylvania on Saturday. Harvard, in its second year of intercollegiate swimming, will thus face Yale on Wednesday, March 9, in the Carnegie pool with a clean record of eight wins...