Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five test matches, Australia had won two. These were the crucial innings. Australia had knocked up 739 runs, England 728, and the last man was in. A run was hit, off sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long...
Coach Wachter has been working on this new line-up all week in an effort to bolster the attack and perfect the passing game which has been weak so far this season. The game today will be the second and crucial test of the ability of the team to break through their opponent's defense, with the new forward line in action...
...espada, or matador; the swordsman, the killer, the hero of the day. It is to this final role that the apprentice aspires. Sometimes, through sheer braggadocio, the merest man may spring to fame overnight by leaping down into an arena if some emergency should arise at this crucial juncture of a fight. That is seldom seen, however...
...well. One of the first of them was the "specialist". Hardly had he begun the career that was to lead him to fame when he startled the football world with a dramatic inspiration that gave the University a victory over Yale. To have a specialist ready for the crucial moment in a game when he would be most needed was an unheard of innovation. But when Kennard was rushed into the Yale game in 1908 to kick the winning points through a goal from the field the football world sat up and took notice of the new strategy. A little...
...Chase. Gamache's rise has been even more spectacular and sudden than Stafford's. Playing as a substitute center all the early part of the year, he was never conceded a chance of becoming a first string man. Perhaps his blunder in making a faulty pass at a crucial moment in the Dartmouth game served him well in the end. Shortly after he was given a chance at an outpost. That he has done well at his new job is witnessed by the fact that he is the most likely candidate for right end against Princeton...