Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell, after trailing Harvard since the first minute, pulled even, 69-69, with 2:30 remaining on a jumper by Mike Davis, the Cornell high scorer who stung the Crimson with 20 points. The key to the Cornell comeback was not Davis's nor any other Cornell man's heroics but the sharp eyes (or imaginations) of the referees, who sent both Glenn Fine and Brian Banks to the bench with five fouls before the four-minute mark. Harvard's game depends on this pair of stars and it missed them dearly down the stretch...
Yale calmly rebuffed the Crimson's comeback, as they continually victimized the overzealous Harvard defense. Liebowitz and her teammates smartly sidestepped the dives of the frustrated, clawing Crimson defense and proceeded to the basket unmolested to score two points for the Elis. The game then became an exercise in restraint, as Harvard began to find itself in foul trouble...
Doug Mason began the Harvard comeback by recording a shutout with a 5-0 decision in the 150 lb. class. Next, Jim Corcoran pinned previously undefeated Cliff Verron at 3:44 in the 158 lb. division to tie the team score...
What chance they did have came in the form of a hustling comeback rally midway through the second half. Trailing by nine with eight minutes left and playing without the fouled-out Brian Banks (13 points, five rebounds), the pressing cagers launched a comeback...
...fighting. Spinks came out like a hungry tiger, flashing his sparsely-toothed grin continuously. He patted Ali on the behind after each round and stared the champ down with his own incredulous looks. But most of all he punched, and he scored early, wiping out Ali's late-round comeback attempts...