Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to talk about football. After you've been rugged and field-hockeyed out, you can bop on down to the Brown Stadium for the 1:30 p.m. kickoff of the Harvard-Brown game. Harvard partisans will be sitting in the north stand, which is apparently an unfortunate fate. I'll be sitting with a bunch of the guys in section P, row 9. You'll be able to tell us because we'll be wearing shoes, pants, shirts, and coats. Also, all of us have hair on our heads...
...overtime, Cleveland received the kickoff, and quarterback Brian Sipe (18 for 25 for 199 yards and two touchdowns) engineered a 53-yard drive to the New England 18. With the ball on the 18, second down and nine to go, the Browns brought out Cockroft, who lofted a 35 yarder for the win, 4:45 into the overtime segment...
...Crimson did reach the UMass endzone once, but, as should have been the case with the whole game, the play on which it occurred was nullified. Following Dent's touchdown, Bob Kinchen found a hole on the ensuing kickoff the size of the Broadway Street underpass and raced 95 yards for the tying touchdown. Until, that is, a yellow flag told the sparse gathering that the hole had come courtesy of a clip. Thanks, but no thanks...
...Moynihan for a Democratic nomination in last year's U.S. Senate race, had been announcing her announcement for weeks. Still, when she decided to make the toss official, Bella, 56, announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin' to go," she declared to supporters at her kickoff rally. "I'm good from top to bottom and every other part in between." Most Gotham handicappers are willing to believe her: Bella is rated a strong primary threat to Mayor Abraham Beame...
...crowd at Eliot House was mostly male and anticipated the opening kickoff with seeming indifference. The presentation of the line-ups from both teams was greeted with assorted grunts and guffaws; Vicky Carr's rendition of "America the Beautiful" fared little better with the Eliot audience...