Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closest game of the afternoon was the Kirkland-Adams fray. Although the Deacons led eight to nothing at the half, the Gold Coasters overcame this disadvantage and tied the game up 21 all when the final whistle blew. The game was still deadlocked after the first extra period, each team having made one basket. But Ramer Holtan of Adams broke up the game in the "death" period by scoring a goal...
...their earlier upset, but also were especially "hot" Saturday night as nothing seem to go wrong for them. A few minutes after the start of the game, Captain Bud Finegan of the Crimson was accountable for three personal fouls and thus saw little action for the remainder of the fray...
...story went that the famous Nannie, recently made an honorary editor of the "Advocate," would be here for the game, and would liven up the magazine's brawl after the fray. In fact, the report was so persistent that a young man, not more than 10 years old, waited for over two hours outside of the "Advocate's" offices on Mount Auburn Street on the chance of getting a look at the famous profile...
Goalie and captain Jack Penson was badly injured in the fray when he successfully but dangerously deflected a clear shot at the Crimson goal. Two other Harvard players stood out over the efforts of their teammates. Jack Clarke at center half played until he literally dropped, holding the entire defense together; while Olie Taylor at left fullback superbly kept the ball out of Harvard territory with long and timely kicks...
...during the season, both teams have been bothered mostly by poor defense against passes. It has been through the air lanes that almost all of the opposing teams' scores have come. In every game this season except the Brown fray, the Yardlings have stopped running plays well enough to make each game appear close...