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Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale's Diana Punctures Brown Defense; Penn, Dartmouth Score Opening Wins | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Buckley was arguably the game's top quarterback, outshining teammate Rich Tasco of Drake (all run and no pass) and the Gray's Joe "747" Adams of Tennessee State (much-heralded but abysmal in this contest) and Jay Venuto of Wake Forest (who led a last-gasp rally but failed to produce the crucial two-point conversion in the clutch...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Blue-Gray Classic With a Crimson Tint | 1/23/1981 | See Source »

Coppinger snagged an Eli pass minutes later to halt Yale's last-gasp effort, and the stands--the Harvard side that is--erupted in a frenzy. Fans poured down onto the field and soon toppled the uprights as the most astonishing Harvard performance since the 29-29 "victory" of 1968 came...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: The '70s: A Decade Of Games | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

Coppinger snagged an Eli pass minutes later to halt Yale's last-gasp effort, and the stands--the Harvard side that is--erupted in a frenzy. Fans poured down onto the field and soon toppled the uprights as the most astonishing Harvard performance since the 29-29 "victory" of 1968 came...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Shock Of 1979 | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for the Camp David mystery seemed to be nothing more-or less-than a spectacular display of White House ineptitude, followed by a desperate, last-gasp scramble to salvage something from the wreckage. By all indications from Administration aides, Carter canceled his energy speech because he realized, only 30 hours before he was to go on prime-time TV, that he was unprepared to say very much. In part, this was because of deep divisions among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Was Speechless | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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