Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season, the team dropped consecutive contests in heartbreaking fashion to Colgate and Cornell. They rebounded strongly, winning their next three games before falling to the Brown University Bears--the team ranked number one by most Ivy League preseason polls--to all but mathematically assure the team of a finish short of the championship. Their fate was sealed last Saturday with another tough loss, this one at the hands of the Pennsylvania Quakers...
...League football season is so short--teams play only 10 games total, seven counting for conference standings--that a team that loses its first few games all but eliminates itself from competition for the league crown. This year, for example, after losing its first two games, highly touted Princeton only sealed a final nail in its coffin by losing to the Crimson at Soldiers Field on Oct. 23. With three losses, they were finished, and the balance of the season was good only to salvage some Tiger pride...
...With 12 seconds left, Yale still managed to drive into position for a 47-yard field goal, but Mike Murawczyk's kick fell short...
...have certain short term goals that I wanted to attempt, but this put things out of reach," he said. "You sort of have to think twice about your situation if you don't have a degree...
...young boy from Chicago is all grown up now, a 6'4, 235-pound man who may still get a chance to play football after The Game. Sands is on the very short list of Crimson players who might be drafted next spring, but of course he isn't counting...