Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacunski asked Dowling why he had run and Brian responded, "I saw something in their defense I knew I could exploit." Faced now with fourth and 26, Brian ran again, for 35 yards. Mortified, the coach asked him the $64,000 question again. "Well, coach. I saw the same thing again," Brian answered...
...wins in a row, more than any other college in the country. The great thing about breaking a winning streak is that the team that loses has to start all over again. It is as though those other 16 games did not count, and Yale is beginning again, back to 1701, from scratch...
...undefeated record (in games he has finished) since seventh grade or something. Carmen Cozza, the Yale coach, has said that Dowling is neither a great passer nor a great runner, he is just "a born winner." That is a disgusting prospect. We all know there is no such thing as a born winner or a born anything else. Winners are made and not born (like Wheaties) and to suppose that Dowling was born to win is strikingly un-American...
...THAT we have established that Harvard has some great things to ruin, we must answer the question, Why ruin? In the existential phenomenological context of things (the only way we approach anything in the sporting world), destroying has some magnificent benefits that accomplishing cannot touch. First, destroying is final and absolute. Once all these Yale streaks and things are destroyed, they cannot happen again. Second, and most important, destroying is a wonderfully exhilarating thing to do--it is mischievous and healthy, It moves the spirit and the soul--it is direct, concrete and eternal...
...NOTE about the bullfight (this is an analogy I like to use because I like bullfights and I think they would be wonderful for NCAA competition, untelevized): What is important in the bullfight is the killing of a living, breathing thing. It is final and absolute and there is no doubt that it has happened. In a football game we have a score to give us concreteness, and yet, looked at from a broader range, nothing gives concreteness to the situation of the team itself. I can see Yale with its 17 wins in a row or whatever floating...