Word: field
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Pennsylvania's right halfback opened the second quarter with a daring 35-yard breakthrough off the Crimson left tackle that tied the game 6-6. The third quarter was a stalemate, as both teams cancelled each other out in a series of long drives up and down the field...
They play soccer at Penn on a narrow, choppy field out behind the university steam plant, among various factories and under the main railroad artery to Philadelphia. There, in the worst playing condition imaginable, the varsity soccer squad staked its claim to the Ivy League title by defeating Penn, 2 to 0, last Saturday...
...Crimson's lightweight line, whose precision attack was supposed to flounder on wet, muddy grounds, was never better, as it rose to the occasion against a rugged Quaker eleven. Moreover, the varsity adapted easily to the narrow Penn field...
Goalie Tom Bagnoli led the Crimson to victory. As a sophomore in 1957, Bagnoli replaced injured regular goalie Jim Perkins for the Penn contest, and allowed four goals on the muddy Quaker field before being replaced late in the first period. Saturday, in identical conditions, he was magnificent. He stopped everything that came his way and contributed the play of the game midway in the third quarter...
...uncomfortable Penn fans felt during the game that they had seen this same performance before, they were quite right. Two years age the setting, plot, and featured performer were all the same as they were today--only the supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...