Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cagers, who held a 31-23 halftime lead, upped the margin to a gaping 16 with 11:44 left to play. Cornell then mounted a steady comeback and sliced the difference to one (59-58) with 3:11 remaining...
Harvard captain John Havens disposed of second-ranked midshipman John Wall 3-1 despite dropping the opening game of the battle. The Crimson's Mitch Reese also staged a comeback in the third spot, edging Dave Maceslin 3-2 after being down two games...
...Green soon jumped back into the game with 11 straight points. Freshman center Gail Koziara sparked the comeback with her ambitious play under the boards...
When Dartmouth threw three left-handers at the Crimson women in the team's only January meet. Harvard stumbled a bit at the start. But a comeback victory by captain Kathy Lowry and a strong showing by junior Jenny Laforet turned the tide on the Hanover lancers and upped the Harvard record...
DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...