Word: tie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of a tie vote, the Vice President casts the deciding ballot. With Mr. Dawes in the Chair and 48 regulars on the floor, the Republicans would always have a majority...
...other main consolation for Harvard is that the first-string backfield will be ready Saturday. The offense is the big Crimson problem. The best defense in the world cannot assure anything better than a tie. If Harvard is to beat Yale, it must show infinitely more offensive power than it has so far this season. With Gehrke and Miller once more in the backfield, the likelihood of a renovated offense increases a hundred fold...
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 15, 1924. As the throngs of disappointed Tiger rooters filed out of Balmer Stadium Saturday after witnessing the defeat of one of the strongest combinations Nassau has had in many years, they had but one hope, which was that Harvard would tie the Big Three championship next Saturday. But outside the Stadium gates they met countless newsboys shouting, "Brown beats Harvard. Read about the Crimson defeat...
Despite a reorganized Harvard forward line, the visitors managed to keep the ball in Crimson territory for most of the game. The strong defensive work of full-backs, and the goal-guarding of Thomas, however, held Springfield to a scoreless tie until late in the second period, when Fowler took the ball from a hard scrimmage near the Crimson goal and scored on a straight kick...
...these years Harvard, 1880 to 1889. Harvard and Princeton were playing alternately in Cambridge and Princeton as today, Princeton winning in 1880, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888 and 1889 and Harvard winning in 1887 with a tie game in 1881 and an undecided game in 1882 owing to the vagneness of the rules as to the comparative worth of a goal from a try in distinction from a goal from the field. Princeton having scored the former and Harvard the latter. It was this dispute, never settled, that in the following year brought on the numerical values of scoring plays...