Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, with a record of six wins and one tie in Ivy play, needs only one more victory to clinch at least a tie for the title. Only second place Brown, currently two games behind Harvard, has any chance to top the Crimson. The varsity has tied and beaten Brown in their two meetings. However, the Elis lost to Brown 6-2 earlier this week, and are not expected to give the Crimson much trouble...
Harvard got the one break it needed when Princeton fumbled on its own 39. A series of passes from Humenuk to Harshbarger and a six-yard plunge by Harshbarger brought the ball to the Tiger one. Humenuk dove into the end zone to clinch a victory for the Crimson...
Sophomores Clinch Meet...
...first round to club Floyd Patterson into oblivion and install himself as the new king of a tarnished sport. He accomplished it without even trying. A series of deceptively mild left jabs pried Patterson out of his peekaboo crouch. Three times the ineffectual champion attempted to clinch; contemptuously Listen shoved him away. At last, Liston bounced a left hook off Patterson's head, followed it with a chopping right to the heart. Patterson lurched dazedly back into the ropes, rubbing his right eye with his thumb, unable to fight, or even to run. Another ponderous left...
...James Edward ("Pete") Runnells is one of the most inconspicuous players in baseball. He is also the best hitter in the American League. Last week Pete Runnells was batting .339-more than 25 points above his nearest competitor-and needed only a handful of hits to clinch his second American League batting championship and his fifth straight season over...