Word: passes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago this weekend, a Yale senior defensive back named Edward Franklin let a pass fly into a Harvard receiver's hands just inside the goal line with no time left on the clock, and watched in horror as history was made. A famous Crimson headline reported the results: "Harvard Beats Yale...
Yovicsin sent Champi in for Lalich, and the back-up responded with a 15-yd. touchdown pass to right end Bruce Freeman '71 with time running down. A bad snap from center spoiled the conversion attempt, and Harvard went into the half down...
Champi got the ball back on his own 14-yd. line with less than four minutes remaining and marched the Crimson downfield. He hit Freeman for a 15-yard touchdown pass to make...
Harvard needed a two-point conversion to cut the lead to eight, and the comeback appeared to come up short when Champi's pass to Varney for the conversion was incomplete. But the officials ruled that Yale had interfered with the receiver, giving the Crimson a second chance. Crim bulled over on the next attempt to take advantage of the Eli mistake and keep Harvard alive...
These scenarios may not come to pass, but the only guarantee they won't lies with the fairmindedness of the same population that overwhelmingly passed the measures. The people have empowered themselves with more than the discretion to pick an official language: they have become arbiters over key civil rights. Millions of Spanish-speaking citizens must now hope that these "true blooded Americans" will sacrifice their own self-interests to protect the rights of others...