Word: halfbacks
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...Saturday was the field reflected Brown's dampened spirits and added to its woes. With a puddle four inches deep spanning the entire center circle and various other miniature oceans dispersed throughout the field, the conditions were better suited to the Crimson's manager, swimmer Maura Costin. However, Harvard halfback Sara Fischer justified her nickname, "Fish," while teammate Jeanne Piersiak's fancy footwork made Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" routine look like kidstuff...
About ten minutes into the game, the Crimson almost pulled ahead, 1-0. Halfback Michael Smith surprised Bruin goalie Greg Mitko by launching a 40-ft volley from outside the penalty box. Mitko startled, reacted slowly but just in time to deflect the ball off the top of the crossbar for a corner kick...
...fact, Johnson makes so few mistakes at left halfback that she seems to have an internal clock-like mechanism that tells her when to kick the ball. But the only gadgets that make her tick on the field are an outstanding field sense and a tremendous natural athletic ability...
Although she manned center forward in field hockey, Scalise moved her into a halfback position for the simple fact that when "Gia was coming up we needed people to play halfback," he said...
...offense avoided calamity as it opened the second half with a touchdown to take the lead. Beatrice lugged the ball from the 36 up close to midfield on a 12-yd. halfback option. Jon Hollingsworth (who had a fine second half) then ripped off a 21-yd. burst to put the Crimson...