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...arching 25-yard shot by junior inside Dave Taft sailed into the upper right corner of the Yale net with just five seconds left in the final period to eke out a 3-2 win for the Crimson...
...Taft's goal climaxed a last-minute Crimson shooting barrage during which the Harvard forwards booted away several near-perfect scoring opportunities. Yale blew its share of set-ups earlier in the game as they out-hustled the Crimson through the first three periods and consistently beat them to the ball at midfield...
Yale protested the score and fought back aggressively, but there was no arguing with Taft's game winning shot...
...strikingly similar situation developed after Tom Dewey's 1948 defeat. With an angry coalition of Taft and Stassen forces denouncing him as "a symbol of Dewey misrule" and demanding his departure, then National Chairman Hugh Scott called a meeting of the committee in wintry Omaha, Neb., in January 1949. As Scott laughingly recalls it, he deliberately chose an inconvenient site in hopes of reducing attendance. His strategy seemed to work, for he survived a confidence vote by a four-vote margin. But six months later, he resigned...
Heavily unionized areas, such as Lucas County (Toledo), bludgeoned Taft by giving Young a 33,000-vote plurality out of 179,900 votes; Nixon lost that county by only 8,000 votes. Said young Bob in an election postmortem: "The organized-labor vote was very effective in the Ohio campaign. It was just about the whole campaign organization. I suspect they were effective because they stayed behind the scenes and ran things quietly...