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...game this week, of course, is the Dartmouth-Princeton battle. Three field-goal attempts and a two-point conversion pass play missed against Holy Cross, and Dartmouth's 11-game victory streak vanished, 7-6. But today, everything points to Dartmouth: the released pressure, the angry rebound, the home field advantage...
Although Princeton edged Columbia by two points, the game was closer than he score indicates. The margin of victory was Columbia's two-point conversion attempts, both of which failed...
Actually, the system used at Forest Hills was only half-VASSS. Pure VASSS resembles table-tennis scoring: each successful shot earns one point, match is 31, and the player who reaches 31 first must have a two-point margin to win-otherwise, the match goes into an eight-point overtime. Service changes hands after every five points. On fast surfaces such as grass, big serves are discouraged either by 1) limiting the players to one serve per point, or 2) making them serve from a line 3 ft. behind the base line...
Freshman Steve Zietlin tied the score a few minutes later as he smothered an attempted kick deep in the opponents' territory and fell on the ball for a try. Freshman Dick Domingue, who played brilliantly in his fist game at fullback, kicked the two-point conversion to put Harvard in the lead...
...Chace's downfall. Trailing Lonergan 1-0 in the last period. Chace reversed the Yale wrestler and seemed to be a hair away from a pin. But Lonergan twisted back into a reversal of his own, and the referee refused to award Chace the three-point near-fall or two-point predicament that he seemed to deserve. A point's worth of riding time gave Lonergan the 4-2 decision...