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...After the game officially ended, it seemed like a dream come true. It was beautiful, the biggest thing I had ever hoped for. But after they made the second field goal, it was the biggest letdown that I had ever experienced. It was the low point of my football," career. It will stay with me for the rest of my life." Garvey said. "But that's over and done with Now we're just grateful that we have a last chance to prove ourselves against Yale. I guarantee that we'll be ready...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Jim Garvey | 11/19/1982 | See Source »

Interestingly, the pattern of even play followed by letdown repeats itself each time Brown has the bull. The big guns, especially 6-ft., 2-in. Mike McDiurmid and 6-ft., 5-in. David Todhunter, work the bull around the perimeter unhindered by Crimson across long enough to block their posses, holding back while the shot clock runs down... until one of them fires a cannonbull...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: We Try Harder | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

...anything, Mabrey was more disappointed than Rilling. This was her team's worst contest of the season, including its four of Ireland, said the Crimson mentor. Not only that, but it proved an emotional letdown after Tuesday's 4-2 triumph over Providence...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Sputter to Scoreless Tie | 9/25/1982 | See Source »

...When he got to New Haven, he had the kind of immediate letdown that he had had on previous trips to Nashville, on his previous 1978 trip to Nashville. It was an immediate sense of disappointment, disillusionment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Haven Ugly, Hinckley Says | 7/20/1982 | See Source »

...record. In his Inaugural Address, John Kennedy, skipper of PT109, called his a generation "tempered by war." Not every soldier, of course, went to battle with George Patton's mystic glee; he wrote his wife in 1944 that "peace is going to be a hell of a letdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Metaphysics of War | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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