Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That score held up until O'Regan put the game away at 15 of the final period. In between, both Daskalakis and O'Connor tended goal flawlessly, each stopping a dozen chances, each shifting the momentum back to their squad...
From there on, Babel became the aggressor, where before it had been Brog. The Princeton junior broke from a 10-10 tie in game four to a 15-10 win, and continued to ride the momentum to a 15-7 victory in the final game...
...Inquirer outfoxed, outspent and outclassed its rival. Roberts even managed to wrest away Doonesbury, the popular comic strip. Startled, a Bulletin editor huffed that the theft was "not gentlemanly." "We never particularly contended it was," Roberts replied. The Bulletin launched a morning edition in 1978, but by then the momentum had shifted decisively. When the Inquirer grabbed the circulation lead in 1980, the Bulletin was already listing badly. Says former Publisher William McLean III of Charter's last-ditch attempts to save the paper: "They thought they could rescue it, but they had the same problems we did. Nothing...
...game's changing momentum, however, sufficed to keep interest high during the second half. On their first possession the Bengals put together an impressive 83-yard drive, which included a flea flicker of their own. Anderson scored on a six-yard run on a boot-leg play to cut the lead...
Britz had narrowed the Catamount margin to one goal, 4-3, by beating UVM wunderkid Tim Camisa to the upper righthand corner of the net at 9:10. Harvard kept the momentum for about 30 seconds, but when Messina and Mark Litton worked a beautiful two-on-one breakaway on the overanxious Crimson defense and beat the helpless Wade (32 saves) Lau, the Cats took it back, settled down, and neither team scored again...