Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football axiom, based on a wealth of empirical evidence, says that a team cannot score when it does not have the ball. It follows that a team which consistently manages to lose the ball after it takes possession will have trouble winning many games...
Strangely enough, Cornell Coach Jerry Lace was not happy, either, True, he had relied on a kind of "no win," defensive strategy, but one did not have to conclude, he claimed, that he had come to Cambridge to lose, though he fully expected...
Columbia, frustrated last week in Baker Stadium, will attempt to work out its tensions today in the Yale Bowl. If the Yalies couldn't control Hall of Brown they don't stand even half a chance of containing Archie, so look for Yale to lose its second straight and Roberts to take over the command position in the total offense standings by sundown...
...could field a bad football team? In Wilkinson's 16 seasons at Oklahoma, the Sooners have won 14 Missouri Valley (Big Eight) Conference titles and three national championships, and rattled off victory streaks of 31 and 47 games. Only once has Wilkinson suffered the indignity of a losing season, and even out-of-state sportswriters know that when Wilkinson wails, he wins. So last week, after the Sooners outgained (360 yds. to 237 yds.) and outscored the Trojans (17-12), the experts were ready with their superlatives. "Magnificent," they wrote. "Hotter than Los Angeles' 105° weather." That...
Worried by their correspondents' insistent anti-Diem, anti-Nhu, pro-Buddhist, we're-losing-the-war attitude, editors began sending other hands to Saigon for a fresh look. One of the first such visitors was the New York Herald Tribune's Maggie Higgins, who complained: "Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right." She went out into the field in an effort to get "the seldom-told other side of the story," a story, she insisted, "that contrasts violently with the tragic headlines and anti-Diem ferment...