Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing especially annoyed CCLA brass: the offer came before Coke-L.A. could release its third-quarter sales and earnings figures. These are usually the year's fattest because of summer soft-drink consumption. CCLA's sales last year were $165 million, v. $141 million in 1975; earnings rose to $11 million from $9 million. Coke-L.A. even filed suit to stop the takeover bid, charging that it was illegal because MCA began buying shares of CCLA before filing appropriate documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Trading in CCLA was indeed furious: through the last...
Cornell (0-4, 0-6) opened a 7-3 lead in the second quarter, but then reserve Big Green quarterback Buddy Teevens took over the helm to lead the Woodsmen to victory. Teevens got a little help from running backs Curt Oberg and Sam Coffey, who combined for 156 yards rushing...
Overall, the Tigers controlled the ball for more than 42 minutes of the game, so a case could be made that Harvard did well just keeping the score that low. Indeed, the Crimson made one goal-line stand in the second quarter, stopped Princeton twice later on before watching Chris Howe miss two quite makeable field goals, killed a fourth drive thanks to a Tom Masterson interception, and otherwise put in a long, if not good, day's work...
...good because the offense just didn't have it. In games like these, where psychology plays such a key role, Harvard was outFreudianed early by a nine-minute Princeton march in the opening quarter that covered 80 yards and resulted in the first of two Howe field goals, a 36-yarder. Had Harvard, as it did a week ago, been able to establish the early control, the Tigers would probably have been reduced to three purrs and a box of Purina. Princeton took the initial advantage in the mind game, though, and then proved that nothing succeeds like success...
Howe clicked again in the second quarter--this time from 32 yards--and while the Tigers entered halftime on the right side of a 6-0 score, most of the 19,000 spectators in attendance--many clad in orange and black turtlenecks--were unconvinced that Harvard could play another half in slow motion...