Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signal caller takes the snap from center, drops back as if to pass, then suddenly races downfield for a 16-yd. gain...
...meet opened in true Crimson fashion as tri-captain Jay Hughes and junior Steve Niemi took first and second in the 35 lb. weight throw. B.C.'s Joe Dray took third but came up later to snap Hughes's three-meet streak in the shot put and claim B.C.'s only blue ribbon in the field events...
Navy, still smarting from its 7-2 setback at the hands of Harvard last year, has been preparing for this contest for weeks. Crimson coach Jack Barnaby said recently that Navy "would like nothing better than to be the team to snap our 43-match undefeated string...
...nothing in the realms of cowardice, selfishness, cant and shortsighted folly is beyond the bounds of possibility in view of what has actually happened already. The first time-the very first time-that any external strain is put on the Common Market alliance, the ties that bind its members snap. No, they do not snap; the members themselves rush forward to snap them...
Skinner then added three rapid buckets to center John Murphy's 20-footer on the baseline to push the Minutemen in front, 43-42. Harvard did not snap out of its defensive lull until it gave UMass a seven-point lead and lost point-man Griffin on fouls, with 12:15 remaining on the clock...