Word: goals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's first game was against Ivy arch-nemesis Brown. Last year, the Bruins beat the aquamen twice. But Harvard held tight from the opening whistle, and Brown had but a one-goal lead, 3-2, at the half...
Cornell tested the Crimson defense for the first 45 minutes, with senior midfielder John Bayne--the Big Red's leading scorer with three goals on the season--firing a bevy of shots at the Harvard goal...
...played good offense and we were good in front of goal," Getman said...
Strong midfield support gave the trio of forwards several scoring opportunities, with D'Onofrio nearly netting a pass off a Hotchkin free kick just minutes after the Crimson's lone goal. Trailing in total shots at the close of the first half, Harvard finished with 11 in the game, the same number recorded...
...certainly a curious list, as perhaps any such list inevitably would be. Legend has it that a German newspaper of the 1920s attempted to reach a similar goal by different means when it staged a contest for the most implausible headline that could be imagined. The winner: ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND FOUND ALIVE. WORLD WAR A MISTAKE. A London magazine cited that old joke when it restaged the same contest in the 1950s. The winner: ADENAUER DIES. A moderately funny joke in its time, but also an illustration of how quickly and thoroughly news becomes dated. And not just news itself...