Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Football's easy when you're on a roll, but Harvard needs to learn to stop its opponent when the other team has the momentum. The only ways to do that are a long, crowd-silencing drive on offense or a takeaway on defense. If this team develops the ability to come up with big plays when it needs them most, it should go into the Yale game...
...cops can't stop [the robberies], I don't know what the next step is," said Helen B. Stevens...
Needing only one more first down to clinch the game, the Crimson once again put the ball in Menick's hands. But after a seven-yard carry on first down, Menick was stopped for a three-yard loss, putting Harvard in a third-and-6 situation. Fordham used its final timeout to stop the clock...
...spite of stellar individual performances by Crimson players, the team was unable to stop a stubborn Penn offense. After dominating the first game 15-7, Harvard lost the next three games...
...woman who wears a shahtoosh should be deeply embarrassed," says George Schaller, a renowned biologist who has called attention to the plight of the chirus. "It's not a shawl; it's a shroud." Shame might not stop the trade, but this will: at the current rate of poaching, the species is likely to be extinct within 20 years...