Word: divingability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow, some way, wide receiver Elton Akins, who had dropped an easy ball only two plays before, made a diving, fingertip catch as he said across the back line, helping Army to the game, 7-7,13 seconds before intermission. They play covered 34 yards.
Lamont doesn't make a lot of diving saves; she positions herself so well she rarely has to. In fact, the Harvard goalie hasn't had to make many saves at all, thanks to the backfield play of Ellen O'Neill. Toby Carroll, Mullen and Maureen Finn. The defensive unit...
Martin picked up the first Harvard score by being in the right place at the right time. Trailing 1-0, Crimson Co-Captain Maureen Finn hit a penalty stroke from just outside the top of the penalty circle Left wing Jennifer White picked it up in a crowd and slapped...
Credit for stemming the Lions onslaught for most of the match goes to junior Phil Coogan, who twice look out charging Columbia forwards at the edge of the penalty box and found himself diving across the goal mouth on one-handed saves too many times to count.
The resentful tone echoes Vargas Llosa novels in which Peru was often depicted as a parody society. Those books had powerful intentions, but they also had moments that recalled Peter De Vries' line about the writer who puts readers into a diving bell and takes them down three feet...