Word: comebacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down 29-13 with 10 minutes remaining, the Crimson football team staged its famous comeback to tie Yale, 29-29, on a last-second, two-point conversion. Sophomore Varney caught the conversion...
With the opening of the second half, the Crimson began its comeback. The quintet of Ann Scannell, Pat Horne, Marget Long, Elaine Holpuch and Jane Judge started to click. Horne sank a couple of quick jump shots, and Long, who led the team in scoring (12 points) and rebounding (11), came up with some key caroms and the Crimson had taken the lead...
This was the time for some replacements, or at least a time out. The players seemed worn out after the comeback, and started to drag. But there were no replacements and no time outs. Not until Yale had rebuilt its lead to a healthy 40-31, that...
...Saturday's contest, Crimson swingman Donald Fleming hit a pressure baseline jumper with two minutes left in regulation time to tie the game up at 63-all and cap a five-minute Crimson comeback from a nine-point deficit...
Irony is the sportswriter's most valued tool. It elevates merely exciting events to the realm of the extraordinary. The Oakland Raiders' Super Bowl victory, for instance, was a prime example--as the first wild card entry ever to win, it was interesting, but Jim Plunkett's remarkable comeback made it a story in the fullest sense...