Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down 6 to 5 going into the last five minutes of the contest, the Crimson rallied when center David Holmes punted over the Yale three quarters line to their 35. In the resulting scrum, the ball was heeled back to scrum half Jack Butterfield, who immediately flipped it out to Holmes...
...first Crimson score came in the opening minutes of the second half, when fly half Chris Hauge took a Butterfield pass and raced 15 yards to the goal line. Graham Russell, the team's best kicker, then booted the ball through the uprights for two more points...
Throughout the game the Yale tackling was magnificent, by far the best of any of the Crimson's other opponents. One Eli managed to break captain Hal Churchill's nose on a particularly hard stop. The Crimson played the entire second half with only 14 men, as forward Bob Shaunessey left the game early with a separated shoulder...
Navy almost stole second place from Penn with a tremendous closing spring which provided an exciting finish. The Middies rowed the whole last half-mile above a 38, finishing at a 41. Penn had to push its stroke up to a 37 in order to squeeze ahead by half a second. The Crimson boat, never rowing above a 35, was not even pressed...
...keep the Crimson shell from drawing ahead, the Penn stroke moved up to a 34, but was almost a length behind at the mile mark. Coming through the bridge a half-mile from the finish, Penn was rowing a 35 and the Crimson a 32 with open water between them...