Word: playing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...athlete. She's a senior on the women's rugby team, the closest thing the University has to a female football team. Despite the connection that the sports have on the field, Turcotte has a bit of trouble drawing a bond to the football players, reasoning that "we mostly play for ourselves as opposed to an audience...
...Russell D. Rivera '00 is the play-by-play announcer. All season long, he's been offering play-by-play commentary on WHRB for fans listening at home in Cambridge. Russell's been covering football since 1996, and he's not too keen on the idea of this being his final Harvard-Yale Game...
...Russell is leaving no room for error. "I'm going to do the best play-by-play job I can do--it's my last game calling the marquis sport. I owe the best to myself, and to everyone listening who couldn't be there...
...Soldiers Field. Harvard scores, but fails on the two point conversion, remaining 10 points behind. No wait, pass interference--a second opportunity proves worthy; Yale 29, Harvard 21, 42 seconds remaining. Onside kick. Harvard recovers, quickly drives down the field. Three seconds remaining, eight yard line. On the final play, Gatto catches touchdown pass for the score. Down two, no time remaining. Two point conversion successful, game ends in 29-29 tie. Both Harvard and Yale finish with identical 8-0-1 records...
...stars had aligned themselves such that with under a minute remaining, Harvard needed two touchdowns plus two two-point conversions to tie the game. No room for error whatsoever. There would be no possibility of a win, only a tie. Circumstance so rarely affords any team or individual to play out a heroic miracle such as that; when and while it happens, it almost seems preordained that the miracle outcome might manifest...