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...handoff and just take it [outside], and at the very least get the first down.” Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore was nothing short of effusive in his praise for Dawson before and after the game, saying in the days leading up to the contest that he would need to put an extra man on the field to contain Dawson. Instead, Gilmore’s Crusaders went the opposite way, having just ten men on the field for Dawson’s fourth-and-one touchdown run. “He’s a great runner...
Riders, for their part, generally fall into two camps: Bible thumpers and hard-living cowboys. Riders know that each contest could be their last, a realization that drives some to church, others to drink. The religious types, says veteran rider Chris Shivers, "want to be in the right spot when it's time to go." This fall, they may want to add one more thing to their prayers: that football fans stay tuned to their eight seconds of glory...
...Landlord's Game, a didactic board game patented in 1904 by a reformer advocating landlord taxes to counter the exploitation of tenants.) Yet it promised that you too could get rich, by saving your salary, seizing lucky opportunities and winning the occasional second prize in a beauty contest...
...there’s one thing you can say about the Harvard field hockey team, it’s that it has been consistent; with nearly a third of the season behind it, the Crimson has yet to find itself on the winning end of a contest. Unfortunately for Harvard, the weekend did not herald of a reversal of fortune. The Crimson (0-5) continued its current slump, falling in a shutout to Holy Cross (4-3) yesterday after suffering a disheartening 2-1 overtime loss to New Hampshire (1-6) just two days before.HOLY CROSS 3, HARVARD 0After...
...hustle and energy to win the balls in the air and push forward with a diverse attack. The final result—a 2-1 loss to No. 5 Duke (6-0-1)—was not what the Crimson (4-2-0) hoped for heading into the contest. But the team kept itself within reach of a result throughout the entire game because of the energy it displayed all over the field. The announced crowd of 1,105 helped create an atmosphere that was ripe for an upset. “[The players] used the crowd well...