Word: yard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazement of everybody, Tiger coach Frank Navarro elected to go for the first, which Van Pelt picked up with a yard to spare. "The offense felt we could make it," Navarro explained later. "We've been having trouble with out snaps on kicks and I was concerned with the effect it might have on the team to get that close and come away with no points having tried a field goal when we were that close to the first down...
...school opened two years later, bolstered by a contribution of 779 pounds from John Harvard. It began as a farm-house in the middle of Cowyard Row (now the Yard), and steam and smells from cow manure regularly wafted through the classrooms...
President Increase Mather later held a ceremonial book burning in the Yard, expunging a book that discussed Cotton Mather's role in the witchcraft trials...
...memory of last year's 24-24 tie at Palmer Stadium surely haunts Restic. Crissy bedeviled Harvard all afternoon with 67 yards rushing and 81 more through the air, a performance that the Crimson's Ralph Polillio, now graduated, matched nearly yard for yard. The game ended with a sickening thud for Restic's charges, however. When Harvard appeared to be heading for what looked like the winning score, Polillio fumbled away the ball on the Princeton 8-yd, line with just 38 seconds left to play...
Students complained that because of construction in the Square, the bus leaving the Radcliffe Quadrangle at 8:50 was not reaching the Yard in time for nine o'clock classes. "By moving everything up five minutes in the morning we hope to solve that problem," Anne M. Gregory, director of the shuttle service, said...