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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, September 23, the Stadium: As the Holy Cross defense lines up for the first play of the game, a large boulder falls from the sky and lands on the field, creating a crater the size of Tony Mandarich. The Crusaders trip and fall in. Harvard runs up the score...
Saturday, September 30, West Point: Ah, the glory that is Army. But on this infamous day, the generals teaching basic tank training forget there's a football game being played...
...Cadets makes a wrong turn and crashes straight into the stadium, causing the ball to mysteriously slip through the hands of an Army receiver and right to Harvard defensive back Jim Smith, who proceeds to score the only touchdown of the game. Harvard 10, Army...
Even now she sometimes wears a ponytail, and age has only crispened that aquiline, no-nonsense visage. But in a game dominated by youth, Evert, 34, has become the matron saint. Entering this year's Open, which she said would be her adieu to the big time, she all but renounced any chance to win. She is being judged, and is judging herself, by a different standard: the grace of her departure. Like all great athletes, she has not so much succumbed to the ravages of time as allowed its passage to burnish her achievements into legend...
Evert thinks it a great joke that she was not voted "Most Athletic" of her high school graduating class. In truth, her game relied more on mental agility than physical force. She paced the base line and outwaited opponents, rather than take high-risk shots or rush the net seeking quick winners. She was ordinary in strength of serve and speed of hand and foot. But she was extraordinary in the precision and timing of her passing shots, her high, looping moon balls, her lobs that landed as if by radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above...