Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's saber-swordsmen broke a 9-9 deadlock with three consecutive vitories to open the third round, then the epee and foil teams withstood a determined MIT comeback, as the Crimson humbled their competitors from the trade school down the river, 15-12, at the IAB last evening...
...ignoring the pain of an injured shoulder and the discomfort of a protective harness, to lead an incomplete comeback that had alumni dancing with delusions of another miraculous tie, a 35-all spectacle that would have been just too perfect an end to the tenth anniversary of the 1968 deadlock...
...years later, frustration returned as The Game of '99 ended in a scoreless deadlock. Harvard had just one chance to score as Shirley George Ellis bulled his way to the one-yard line, only to be turned back by a defender who had braced himself for the collision by placing his feet against the goal posts and then shooting his body out to make the game-saving stop...
...deadlock threatened, and as the Cardinals broke for Sunday-night dinner, talk turned to non-Italians?"like spontaneous combustion," says one participant. The germ of the Wojtyla candidacy began overnight with "a word here and a word there," according to another. On Monday morning's fifth ballot, Wojtyla got only a few votes, but they captured attention. Holland's Johannes Willebrands drew a respectable vote, and decided to withdraw in Wojtyla's favor. Wojtyla gained noticeably on the sixth ballot. Over lunch, Wojtyla was so visibly upset by the coalescing forces that his friends feared he might refuse the papacy...
Yale finished a distant third with 60 points. The meet result gives rise to a three-way deadlock for the Ivy lead between Harvard. Princeton and Yale, the latter having defeated Princeton in an earlier meet...