Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What has happened is analogous to the pick-up baseball games played by young boys. It is always getting darker and closer to dinner time. You are 14 runs behind and some guy on the other team fouls off eight or nine pitches. You want to shout, Listen, you've had your chance to get a hit, a fair chance, now you're out. But the rules place no limit on fouls, so you can only be facetious and say, Ninety-four more, or something equally hopeless. As of two weeks ago, the rules of the game have changed. When...
From the opening face-off, when Yale's big Tom Preston out-fought Crimson midfielder Jim Kilkowski for possession, things just spiralled downhill for Harvard. Yale controlled the ball the entire game...
Harvard actually led at the end of the first half, 5-3, but it was only the fantastic net-minding of Ed McCrae which kept the Crimson in the game at all. McCrea could not single-handedly stop the Blue...
Psychologically down after easy wins against weaklings Williams and Dartmouth in the last two weeks. Harvard could do little to stop the Blue. Yale, improving tremendously each game, managed to maintain enough of the momentum that inspired them to tie defending Ivy champ Princeton, 8-8, last week, and had no trouble at all with the Crimson...
McCrea received very little help from the rest of his team. Attackman John Ince, the leading scorer in the league, tallied the first Crimson goal early in the first quarter, but was shut-out for the rest of the game...