Word: comebacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard did have to mount a comeback in the game, after the Big Green (1-3-1, 1-3-1, 1-3) revved up its engine early...
Republicans claimed their first victory in 24 years in Montana, where former state senator Stan Stephens defeated a comeback attempt by former Democratic Governor Tom Judge. The Republicans also held onto Rhode Island, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Missouri...
...Gatto was the captain of the 1968 Harvard football team. Gatto, now the coach at Davidson University in Davidson, N.C., remembers The Game not for its plays, not even for Harvard's dramatic comeback--the Crimson scored 16 points in 42 seconds to tie the score--but for the spirit that enveloped the team. An indefinable feeling. A restless excitement. A unity...
With Harvard down, 29-13, with 42 seconds left in The Game, the Crimson stages a momentous comeback...
Harvard needed a two-point conversion to cut the lead to eight, and the comeback appeared to come up short when Champi's pass to Varney for the conversion was incomplete. But the officials ruled that Yale had interfered with the receiver, giving the Crimson a second chance. Crim bulled over on the next attempt to take advantage of the Eli mistake and keep Harvard alive...