Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than perhaps any other sport, momentum controls field hockey. Harvard had the momentum entering the second half, and almost doubled its margin two minutes into the stanza when Pew clanged a low liner off the post from eight feet...
...problem was that at Lehigh, women's soccer is only a club sport, and not much of a club sport at that...
Even fewer people are aware of the fact that field hockey ranks as the third most popular sport in the world, right behind soccer and basketball. And not just for vigorous, pony-tailed, prep school girls...
...sport where so much emphasis is put on training to build endurance, Murphy's performance seems all the more remarkable. As the Princeton coach said after the race, "Not bad for a guy who hasn't been running--it's not easy to do something like that by memory...
...long last there is a sport in which men and women can compete as equals, and it's probably not what you'd expect. Co-ed field hockey, that incorrigible off-spring of a Harvard-Radcliffe marriage, has become more and more popular each year, because apart from the sheer joy of tearing about a grass field flailing a wooden stick in the air, it provides a rare instance of mutual participation and cooperation uncomplicated an unaffected by gender...