Word: mentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Savit called the setting for last, year's 9-7 football loss to Cornell "weather not fit for otters." He credited an overtime hockey win against Princeton two winters ago to Morris E. (Moe) Mentum. He wrote up a water polo match his sophomore year to the tune of Longfellow's Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." He had Bob Baggott diving on fumbled juic glasses, Billy Cleary saying nothing in print, an entire column on beans, and all those letters home to Mom (P.S., "Please tell Jeffrey to accept my collect phone calls...
...Mentum was passing in back of the Brown bench eating a between-periods hot dog when Stovern lit the red light, but he soon returned to Section 19 and seven minutes later Harvard joyously raised its sticks in appreciation of Mentum's decision...
...aroused crowd was quickly subdued, however, when Mentum took a quick jaunt to the men's room and Brown's Mark Charest single-handed tied things with a goal which was as unexpected to the partisan Crimson followers as being served pigeon at the House of China...
...there were ten minutes left and this was a hockey game. Mentum returned to his accustomed location, everyone else held his/her collective breath and then five minutes down the blue line the Crimson got a break...
...Crimson, an important triumph in an excellent game, for Mentum, just another day's work. Harvard now gets set for tomorrow night's contest at Boston College, when Mentum will again be in attendance. Where old Mo sits, however has not yet been determined...