Word: second-half
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Jake's 1946 team has been largely without honor in its own town. Their team play is intermittently sloppy, and occasionally they go in for grandstanding. Madison Square Garden crowds and sportswriters frequently hoot them. But Jake's second-half wonders, led by eagle-eyed Sid Tanenbaum, go on throwing the ball around a lot, and winning games...
...basketball teams ever stirred the fans or stumped the experts like this year's Notre Dame crew. One day they put on terrific second-half rallies; next day they roll up a lead and play second-half dead ducks. They have won six of their twelve games by a bare three-point margin or less...
Most college football teams called it a season after last weekend's
games, which settled most conference titles:
Harvard's lacrossemen, facing a more experienced fee and crippled by a lack of substitutes, succumbed to a second-half whirlwind and lost to a powerful Exeter squad Wednesday on Soldiers Field, 14 to 1. In the first meeting of the two clubs, held earlier in the season, the Crimson was conquered by a score...
...there are such things as second-half teams, the Crimson booters fill the bill, as they have scored all but one of their goals this term in the last two periods. Of the 11 goals registered in the second half, seven have come in the final quarter, an indication of the team's fighting spirit which has brought it from behind in, all three games played so far this term...