Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams then traded touchdowns, but Yale gave up an extra field-goal. On their last drive, the Bulldogs found themselves behind 28-26. But Yale quarterback Jon Rogan methodically completed three passes to bring his team within field-goal range, permitting Tony Jones to kick his game-winning three pointer...
...that for Ulysses S. Grant, who was clerking in a family shop in Galena, Ill., when the Civil War ignited the U.S. Grant was 38 when the rebels fired on Fort Sumter, and he had distinguished himself only briefly as a soldier: in combat, as an eager young West Pointer in the Mexican War, and as an enterprising peacetime quartermaster who led a hapless party of California-bound travelers across the Isthmus of Panama...
...there. Jullus Erving pumped home 28 points to pace Philadelphia, which blew a 16-point, second-half lead when the Bucks put on a 22-5 spurt to take a one-point lead with 9:09 left. But clutch foul-shooting by Caldwell Jones offset a Junior Bridgeman three-pointer in the final seconds and gave the 76ers the victory. In other conference semi-final action, the Kansas City Kings topped Phoenix, 95-88, to earn a seven-game victory and the right to face the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals...
...next Crimson possession, a spinning Harris received a beautiful pass from Don Fleming, and converted a two-pointer. Harris excited the crowd yet again on the next Harvard possession, throwing up an impossible-looking half-jumper, half-layup to put the Crimson back up by five...
Harvard really couldn't have hoped to come out of the first half in any better shape than their 41-34 lead at intermission. Unable to score for the first three minutes of the contest, falling behind, 6-0, before Mark Harris knocked home a two-pointer 2:50 into the game, the Crimson managed to stay close despite distressingly sloppy play...