Word: game
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teams are never supposed to give up. Not in a scrimmage, not in a game and especially not in a national championship game. But given the score, the opponent (Penn State is the nation's number-one ranked team) and the weather (unbearably hot), Harvard might have been forgiven for easing up a little...
...Lisi sparked us with her speed and her ability to catch those long passes," said junior Char Joslin, who scored the Crimson's fifth goal with 12 minutes remaining in the game...
Take away the game's first 19 minutes and Harvard wins decisively...
...like Jerry Ford's English-muffin phase, has passed from American screens. Once again, as so often before, troops moved through the night; a defiant dictatorship strode the dark streets of a tiny, helpless nation; NATO complained and quibbled; the Soviets unexpectedly moved a bishop in the great chess game of power. The convicted ghost of Ollie North haunted Pennsylvania Avenue, and House Speaker Jim Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious in doling out its moisture...
David Halberstam's engaging account of the 1949 season proves both these mythic profiles to be absolutely accurate. That year the pennant race between the two teams came down to the very last game. Of course the Sox lost it. They had done the same thing against the Cleveland Indians in a sudden-death playoff game the year before. Both teams were hobbled by injuries. But the Yankees had the poise and power...