Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early going, Harvard committed four uncharacteristic turnovers, perhaps a result of playing in front of the noisy sellout crowd in a tiny gym that shook after every hometown score...
...hired band played "Southie is My Hometown" and White, who has held office longer than any other living big-city major in the country, shook his clenched hands above his head...
Princeton at Dartmouth--Big Green quarterback Buddy Teevens is gone, but the kids from New Hampshire look big and strong. If they can make up for the loss of Teeven's arm, they would vie for the title. Against hapless Princeton, an easy 35-12 win, especially with the hometown Hanover animals cheering...
...were ahead 2-0. The top of the first and the Sox were already losing. I settled into my seat down the left field line and watched Remy, Hobson, Lynn, and "the Olde Towne team" go down without posing a threat. The game rolled on without excitement for the hometown fans through eight innings. I was beginning to re-evaluate my impression of the Boston fan at this point. Down 4-2 and no more than a few curses shouted at the umps, only an occasional customary slur shouted at George Scott; echoes of "cold beah heah" were...
...seconds that separated the two squads in California and the fact that Harvard has a-crew-ed 14 Stein cups in as many years makes the hometown boys the favorites Saturday...