Word: slip-up
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...nerve-racking period of Saturday evening's game was announced as "sudden death." "Lingering death" would have fitted it better; for two teams which, after an unusually exhausting game ten minutes longer than the regular, fight through twenty-seven minutes under the strain of knowing that a single defensive slip-up will be irretrievable, are not dying suddenly. It means much for both sevens to have come through such a contest as Saturday's; it means very much for the University seven to have come through it victorious...
...them from defeat. Their tackling was perfect, and the activity showed by the rushers in getting down on the ball called for much applause from the crowd. Things were looking rather dubious for Harvard, but the team did not relax in the slightest, and when Peace made his only slip-up, just eight minutes before the close, Ayers threw himself on the ball and secured it for Harvard. Both sides lined out, and Kendall receiving the ball from the quarter-back carried it directly in front of the poles. Appleton snapped the ball to Hammond who carried it forward five...