Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAVEN, Conn.--Co-captain Glenn Fine sank four crucial free throws in the last 12 seconds of the Harvard-Yale basketball game to stave off a tremendous comeback attempt by the Elis and preserve the Crimson basketball team's second consecutive one-point victory in two nights, 80-79, here at the Payne-Whitney...
When the second half began, Hooft immediately took charge of the game, scoring six points and feeding Fleming for another basket as Harvard recaptured a ten-point lead, 49-39. The distance between the two teams remained constant for the next ten minutes until Yale began its comeback in the last six minutes...
...Crimson closed the gap to two when Huber drew a face-off to Fischer, who wasted no time in stuffing the puck past Brown goaltender Katherine Hazard's stickside. But that was it, with a questionable hooking call to Huber at 18:33 killing all hopes of a comeback...
Once the Crimson had staked out its commanding lead, the cold-shooting Brown squad could not mount a serious comeback. Overall the Bruins shot a scant 34 per cent from the field, while Harvard connected on 54 per cent of its attempts...
...their second-half comeback, the cagers narrowed the gap to as few as five points, but forward Brummel and center Rosa Aparicio, who led Yale with 12 points each, smothered the Harvard effort...