Word: striker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sports, and the result is a distinctly American style that has both advantages and disadvantages. With superior hand-eye coordination and leaping ability learned in childhood baseball and basketball games, Americans make fine goaltenders, agile and sure-handed around the net. Giorgio Chinaglia, the New York Cosmos high-scoring striker, has an adversary's appreciation of the U.S. talent: "There is a nucleus of goalkeepers that are not good-they're exceptional. They could play in Europe now." And Americans have translated the physical aggressiveness of football into near world-class skill on defense...
...student activist, canceled his subscriptions to the Capital Times and State Journal, and has given the weekly some scoops, like his plan to veto the city council's ban on nude dancing. The county district attorney and several religious leaders and university professors have issued statements backing the strikers. A striker-sponsored poll showed that 20% of readers had canceled their subscriptions or stopped buying either of the dailies since the strike began; the papers, however, report that circulation is down only 5% at the Capital Times and 3% at the more conservative State Journal...
...team can only do so much in the interest of sportsmanship. After it has agreed to play with ten players because the opposition only has ten, to start its second team when asked politely, and to play its goalie at striker and its center-half in the goal to avoid running up the score, what greater lengths can it go to? C'mon now, asking it to turn around and take aim at its won net is going a little...
Sophomore Kathy Batter wrapped up the scoring for the Crimson, finding the net twice in the last 25 minutes of the match. Usually a fixture at center-half, Batter had already played goal and made one save before she switched to striker at the end of the battle and scored twice after scrambles in front...
Despite being handicapped by injuries incurred earlier in the day, which sidelined center fullback Sarah Fischer and right wing Julie Brynteson, the Crimson managed to dominate most of the first half of the crucial playoff as seemingly tireless striker Ellen Hart and Brynteson's replacement, Marsha Hamelin, spearheaded repeated thrusts into the Tufts penalty area...