Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yard Rod Jones run narrowed the margin to 14-7 later in the first quarter, but after stopping Harvard on three straight possessions, the Bruins coughed the ball up again on a fumble at their own 25, and gave the momentum right back...
...recipe for making three power centers where only two exist today is obvious. Tomorrow's election will begin to show if it is going to happen; the momentum that seems to be developing, however, would indicate that only tremendously strong showing by David Sullivan and other tenant candidates like John St. George, coupled with poor performance by Wilkes and Abt would quash notions of a liberal shift to the center. If the 1981 campaign has proven anything. it is the fragility of the progressive consensus in Cambridge...
Were it a national election, the pollsters would know by now; their weekend results, their momentum charts, would be able to predict, within a point or two, how it was going to break. But no-one does any polling in Cambridge, so everyone worries...
This confidence and control was apparent from the start. Harvard came out and controlled the pace of the game during the opening 25 minutes before losing some of its momentum in the middle of the period...
South quickly reganied momentum when Auteri, just second after the second-half kickoff, took advantage of Leveret's double coverge on Chaney and hit tight end Bob Carey in the end zoen for a 50-yard score...