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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spinks caroused and skipped workouts, counting on the strength of youth to carry him through. Ali relied instead on conditioning and the canniness of age, all the skills learned in 58 professional fights. He stepped into the New Orleans ring with a look of fierce concentration unseen since his third and final bout with Joe Frazier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Once Again at 36 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...Second Baseman Jerry Remy fractured his wrist last month, and is still playing with it taped. Dwight Evans was hit by a pitch and gets dizzy chasing fly balls. Add to that Catcher Carlton Fisk's broken rib, First Baseman George Scott's battered right middle finger. Third Baseman Butch Hobson's injured elbow and Centerfielder Fred Lynn's pulled stomach muscle, and you get a team that might be better off playing softball for Massachusetts General Hospital. Only this season's sensation, Jim Rice, has remained healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How Boston's Mighty Have Fallen | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Sophomore running back Paul Connors, who runs like a cross between a sewing machine ar-1 a machete, burst up the middle for a 17-yd. pickup, his longest of the day, putting Harvard at the Lions' 25-yard line. But the drive finally petered out when on third down and seven yards to go for a TD, Sablock took a pitch out from Brown and tossed to Rich Horner, who caught the ball but landed outside of the endzone stripe. Bosnic then came on to give Harvard a 3-0 first-quarter lead...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...third quarter, Harvard proceeded to tie the game at 6-6 on Bosnic's second field goal, a 35-yarder that split the uprights. Brown moved the Crimson into scoring position with a drive that started with an impromptu screen pass to Connors. He carried it down to the ten-yard line, only to have the play called back because of a holding penalty. However, on the next play from scrimmage, Brown hit Ralp Polillio curling in on the left sideline for an 18-yd, gain that set up the score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

After Columbia regained possession, there followed two of the most spectacular offensiveseriessince the Heidi Bowl. With 6:15 gone in the third quarter, Moffie dropped back and unfurled a picture-perfect bomb to Freddie Sullivan streaking down the sideline. Sullivan cradled the ball and outlegged Crimson captain Steve Potysman the last 15 yards into the endzone for a 51-yd. TD play...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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