Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trailing by four points with but 24 seconds remaining, Cornell's football team suddenly connected for a 76 yard pass play that defeated the Crimson, 20 to 16. It was as exciting and unlikely a finish as local fans have seen in years...
...Crimson also took the freshman meet, tallying 37 points to Providence's 39 and B.U.'s 53. Ed Hamlin's third place finish led the Yardlings, as 22-year-old Ken Mueller of B.U. came in first...
Yale's Jim Stack made use of a dazzling kick to win the 440, tying the meet once again and setting the stage for the relay. Stack's time, 49.0, was less than sensational, but he needed a desperate finish to overhaul Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Mike Riegels of Oxford...
Although unwilling to predict the team's success in other single races, Parker did say that from its vantage point of being National titleholder, the team "certainly should finish well," particularly if a number of new freshmen and sophomores join the Yacht Club...
...often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner of the studio is the figure whose making reminded him of the days he rubbed his mother's aching shoulder...