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...Super Bowl as the Pittsburgh Steelers are plodding down the field. They have controlled the ball for eleven straight minutes and have slogged to the Dallas Cowboy 18-yd. line. Franco Harris rams off tackle yet again for two more yards, and Coach Chuck Noll sends in Kicker Roy Gerela. His field goal gives the Steelers victory-3-2. There is total silence in the Orange Bowl. Everyone is sound asleep...
...KICKER. Chris Bahr, Penn State, 5 ft. 9 in., 166 lbs. Moonlighting for the Philadelphia Atoms, Bahr was rookie of the year in the North American Soccer League last season. Kicking for Penn State this year, he has hit on 18 of 33 field goals, including three 55-yd. boots...
...they were outraged. In a subsequent debate on the speech, Scottish M.P. Winifred Ewing dramatically walked out of the House of Commons, and Party Leader Donald Stewart accused Wilson of "a cynical betrayal of a clear electoral commitment to the people of Scotland." What irritated the S.N.P. was a kicker to Wilson's promise: the Prime Minister indicated that he hoped to have a lengthy national debate on the subject before presenting firm proposals to Commons sometime after next November...
...game is tied 7-7. Each threat by either Harvard of Yale evaporates; a pass is intercepted, the defensive line holds. In the final minutes Harvard mounts a drive and fights its way down to the Yale nine-yard line. With 33 seconds left on the clock, Harvard kicker Mike Lynch toes the ball barely over the goalpost crossbar. Ten thousand, perhaps 15,000 men and women of Harvard drown the Yale Bowl with their cheers and screams. Harvard wins, 10-7, for its first undisputed Ivy League championship since the modern league was formed...
...second kick attempt, from 35 yards, also missed the mark, but Yale was given a third attempt when the referee ruled that the Harvard players had raised their arms before the kick, and obstructed the kicker's view...