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...imagination like a vortex. Back in New England, our placenames are imported from Old England or cribbed from indigenous tongues. Here, rural idiosyncrasy spattered the map with enough wild suggestions to drive the amateur adventurer on a thousand elliptical side trips. Near Climax is Distant. A bit south are Muff and Echo. Elsewhere, places like Oil City, Coal Township, and Lumberville hint at vanished economic powerhouses. A few of these names belong to town centers equipped with American Legion halls and post offices. Most just indicate lonely crossroads...
...pride in holding, absolutely," says Maynard. "I've held for some pretty good kickers, and I want people to remember it was something I was good at." He has only dropped two over a decade, so Maynard is certainly solid. But unfortunately, to be remembered, he'll have to muff one in the Super Bowl...
...seconds later. It took 57 shots on goal—“first time in a while that we played a full 60 minutes,” Du said—but the Crimson finally silenced the Tigers for good. Du got an ovation, even if he did muff the penalty shot. “I think it was kind of representative of the whole night,” Donato said of the center’s miss. “We didn’t score [then], but we hung in there and were able to find...
Three possessions later, after sophomore Dylan McCrory forced the Bears’ Rashad Collins to muff a punt and Harvard converted the miscue into a field goal, the Crimson offense got the ball back trailing by 11 and let sophomore running back Clifton Dawson take over...
According to fellow Sox fan and Newton South grad Matthew L. Ranen ’89, he and Robbins immediately left the room following the Buckner muff without saying a word to anyone else, or pretty much to each other, except for a couple of swear words now and again...