Word: sweep
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Quarterback Ted Tutun, sub- stituting for the injured Mark Meredith, miraculously turned a third-down quarterback sweep into a -yd. touchdown dash--the longest scoring run this year in house football and Mather's first points of the three-game season. Once Tutun turned the corner at the sidelines, it was nothing more than a footrace...
Mather's two-point conversion--a power sweep into the endzone by Lanny Thorndike--trimmed the Leverett lead to four points...
Harvard (4-2, 3-1 Ivy) has played a vastly weaker Ivy schedule and has beaten the three most pathetic teams in the league. The Crimson's 10-9 loss to Princeton last week means that against the Ivy iron--Brown, Penn, and Yale--Harvard must sweep...
...Harvard women's tennis team dropped only three individual matches on the way to a weekend sweep of William & Mary and Virginia...
This mammoth chronicle is Michener's longest yet, and like so many of those before it, contains perfunctory characterization, arid prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled...