Word: ely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late second-half tally by freshman Cat Ferrante lifted the Harvard women's soccer team to a 1-0 win over a scrappy Eli eleven yesterday at chilly Soldiers Field. The booters' final 1978 record stands...
Ferrante notched the lone goal after 70 minutes of scoreless play. Crimson forward Ellen Hart looped a 35-yd. boot from midfield that slammed into the Eli's left goalpost and bounded out to Ferrante. With Yale netminder Sarah Colwell out of position from Hart's blast, Ferrante coolly tucked it home from 3 yards out for the eventual game winner...
Harvard's best first-half opportunity came on an Eli error. After disarming Crimson co-captain Julie Brynteson, Yale defender Merrill Weyerhauser nudged the ball back to Colwell. The pass slipped through the goalie's hands and sputtered towards the net, but Colwell recovered in time and smothered it at the goalmouth...
...though, the seats were 50-yard line material, the drinks were kept to a minimum and Harvard was in the ball game. Very much so, in fact, despite Yale's early dominance and 7-0 advantage after Eli signalcaller Stone Phillips engineered a 43-yd., 11-play drive at the outset of the second quarter and capped the march himself by running five uninterrupted yards for the score...
...first month of the season, the Crimson had appeared primed to take the title, one it had shared with the Eli the previous fall. After barely surviving a Lion attack in the season's opening week, Harvard rolled to victories over Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania...