Word: tight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with St. John gone and the Crimson forced to look for a break--an interception, a fumble, or a handout--the defense had to press. The cornerbacks had to pull in tight, crowding the receivers early and facing one-on-one coverage deep. That, in the end, was a costly necessity...
With a lack of offense forcing the defense to carry the load, Harvard finally broke--though just for a moment. The lapse was long enough to let McEvilly (12-18 for 251 yards and two TDs) hit a wide-open Paglione in the flats. The burly tight end stretched out a 39-yd. gain before Scott MacLeod collared him to prevent a score...
...Crimson had not expected the Huskies to play such a tight game. The report that UMass, the only team to beat Harvard last season, had stunned the Huskies 6-1 brought on visions of a romp. But UConn coach Margaret Dunlop had regrouped her young team and when they stepped on the field Saturday they refused to be intimidated. While the Crimson was constantly within scoring range, the aggressive play of fullback Sue LaVigne thwarted the mighty Crimson offense time after time...
...composition of the club hasn't changed much over the past couple of decades--it remains mostly lawyers, doctors and businessmen. The reasons one alumnus joins the club and another stays away are varied, but alumni in the area agree there is no tight-knit Harvard community. "Just because you're a Harvard alumnus doesn't mean you're any more likely to get to know, or to want to know, other Harvard alumni than you wanted to know the guy across the hall in Winthrop House," Trueheart says...
...astronauts were sensitive about their missions' being controlled by earth-bound technicians. The chosen seven had pulled out of enough tight corners and survived enough glitches to rise to the top of what Wolfe, in a seizure of cliché avoidance, calls "the ziggurat." As a reminder that he was there too, Yeager told reporters he did not want to be an astronaut because they did no real flying. He then rubbed it in by saying that "a monkey's gonna make the first flight." Shepard, Glenn and company bucked back, demanding and getting concessions like an override...