Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half Coach Tolbert's players held the lead by a scant one point margin, only to have it vanish under a determined red and grey comeback early in the second session. The visitors' attack, led by the sensational Eager began to function with telling effect, and the gap between the two scores increased steadily till at mid-period the Engineers enjoyed a commanding advantage. At this point, with ten minutes to spare began a rally which put the two fives on an even basis by the end of the game. Four of the five minutes of the over-time period...
...second period began with a stiff comeback of the Middlesex players but the Freshmen were able to check it and add another tally about the middle of the period, when Austin quickly shoved the rubber in the open goal on a pass from a wing scrimmage...
...touchdown, the Elis triumphed over the West Point eleven in a thrilling game the following Saturday. For three periods the Yale team out-played the invading outfit and well deserved the 14-7 win which they carried away, but it was only by the narrowest margin that the Cadets' comeback fell short. In the last few minutes of the final period the Grey and Black team uncovered a dazzling series of forward passes and taking the pigskin in midfield carried it in six plays down the field and over the line. Uncovering a similar attack on the following kick...
...excellently played matches. Five games were necessary to settle the contest between Myles P. Baker '22, and D. McK. Key '22, who played one of the most brilliant matches of the year. Key took the lead at the start, winning the first game 15-9, but Baker staged a comeback taking two successive games 15-11 and 15-11, only to lose the next 9-15. He easily won the final frame, howover, by a score of 15-7. Carroll Harrington '24, last year's Freshman champion, was defeated by D. S. Ingalls 2L., while Channing Wakefield 1L. defeated...
...critics join to praise Princeton's remarkable comeback in the last few minutes of play. Grantiand Rice in the New York Tribune writes that "Princeton won because at the finish the Tiger had more stuff in reserve than Harvard had and was better fixed for a whirlwind rally. Gilroy's long run would come off without perfect interference...