Word: midfielded
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...Express squad, a club team composed mainly of "Club Atlantic league post-college" players, according to Whitlock, outshot the Crimson 24-21, despite some right-place-at-the-right-time midfield play by halfbacks Emily Keeling and captain Alice Hill...
...fullbacks, directed by Captain Jim Langton, controlled the midfield, rarely allowing Amherst to penetrate more than a few yards into Harvard's defensive end. More important, they consistently turned the Lord Jeffs' infrequent offensive thrusts around, converting them into fast-break outlet passes to streaking wings and halfbacks...
...themselves and stepped in aggressively to boom the ball clear when passes approached the penalty area. On one of the few occasions when Brown did have a legitimate scoring chance, midway through the first half, Sands calmly blocked a headed ball on the line, then catapulted it halfway toward midfield...
Harvard had dominated most of the play on Wesleyan's short field; it had controlled midfield for much of the game as Michael Smith, among others, played especially well; it had only one major defensive breakdown before the final score and Billy Blood had stalled that first-half Wesleyan thrust with a superlative diving save to his right; and it had slowly begun to open holes in the Wesleyan defense with long passes from John Sanacore and Smith. But the Crimson had not scored...
...halfbacks--with newcomer freshman Robert Fritz a pleasant surprise--controlled midfield with intelligent short passing amongst themselves or longer passes to the wings. Freshman wing Mauro Keller Sarmiento played superbly when not dribbling too much, as Ford exhorted him to "turn 'em inside out" from the sideline. Goalie Billy Blood had his finest game of the season, looking comfortable in his role as Fred Herold's replacement...