Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Desaulniers' match was to be the only bright spot for the Crimson team on this day. As Desaulniers and Page concluded their battle, Mitch Reese's loss to Tiger Andy Frost, 3-0 at the seventh position was already history. In rapid succession the results of the fifth and ninth slots appeared on the scoreboard and Harvard fell behind...
...Crimson's John Stubbs lost a razor-close three-game match to Peter Thompson, 11-15, 14-16, and 14-16. Clark Bain also succumbed in three straight, losing to Andy MacDonald...
...Bacon and John Havens--playing on a badly injured knee--the number three and number two men for the Crimson, respectively, struggled to grab one game apiece before dropping 3-1 matches. When their opponents Gary Fogler and Frank Brosens walked off the courts victorious Princeton had clinched the match...
Chuck Elliott and Tiger John Nimick fought evenly at the eighth slot for all five games, with the entire match coming down to the last point. Elliott reached 14 first and chose a one-point tiebreaker. "I chose one point because he is a freshman and I figured that I have more experience," Elliott said. "I had a chance to win the point but I tinned it," he added...
...Furie staged much of the film on location in Asia, the Viet Nam he re-creates is as placid as the Hollywood he built for Gable and Lombard. Even the sting of death is absent: this may be the first war movie ever to climax with a ponderous soccer match instead of a battle...