Word: punt
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Wahlberg's third interception finally knocked him out of the game. A shanked punt had given Harvard great field position at the Holy Cross 34. Two rushes had brought Harvard into the red zone. The runs set up the play action, but Wahlberg forced the issue and his pass was batted straight up into the arms of defensive end Ben Berger. Harvard was only down 20-18 at that point and was well within field goal range...
Holy Cross jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter by wining the field position battle. After recovering the opening kickoff at their own 45-yard line, Holy Cross kept the ball in Harvard's end of the field by playing good defense and executing on punt coverage...
...test over the Pacific early Saturday does make life a lot easier for President Clinton and candidate Gore. Success would have forced the President to make a tough decision on go ahead with the program that threatens to destabilize existing arms-control agreements; its failure allows the President to punt the problem to the next occupant of the Oval Office. And, of course, the urgency of the decision had been created by the assessment that North Korea would be in a position to rain missiles on U.S. cities by 2005 - an assessment that has been pooh-poohed by many inside...
...within the bounds of the ABM treaty, then the White House can at once quiet Republican criticism by showing that it is building a missile defense system and insist to Moscow that it isn't violating the treaty. But though slick lawyering may give Clinton the opportunity to punt the issue of whether to scrap the ABM treaty into the next presidency, the Russians watch CNN, too - and they know that the concrete President Clinton would order poured on a frostbitten Alaskan island isn't for a barbecue pit. He may be better off whispering to Putin what some...
...After blowing a 13-point lead against Cornell the previous week, Harvard nearly blew a 34-3 halftime lead against Fordham, the cellar team in the Patriot League. Led by Wilford, who had 220 yards passing, Patterson, who caught a touchdown pass and returned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown, and Menick, who rushed for 139 yards on 26 carries, Harvard built the seemingly insurmountable lead. But in the second half, Fordham quarterback Matt Georgia tore up the Harvard defense, completing 36-of-64 passes for 382 yards. Interceptions by Kacyvenski and safety Ben Green in the final minutes...