Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell heavyweight Dick Moore fended off an early attack by the Crimson's Tack Chace, then turned on Chace and pinned him at 1:05 of the second period to send Harvard to defeat in their first Ivy meet of the season...
...Player of the Year, who completed 51.8% of his passes this season. He even thought he knew a way. Noting that most teams played their defensive backs deeper than normal against Baltimore, conceding short passes in hopes of defusing Unitas's bombs, Collier decided to take the opposite tack-position his halfbacks a step shorter than usual, crowd the Colts' receivers, make them commit themselves sooner. In the line, he made another minor adjustment, moving Tackle Jim Kanicki over "about one inch"-until he was directly opposite Baltimore's All-Pro Guard Jim Parker...
Holdovers include Henjyoji at 123, Chris Wickens at 177, Captain Ben Brooks at 191, and heavyweight Tack Chace. "Our key matches," Pickett said, "are 123, 137, 177, 191, and unlimited...
...universe created? All at once, and billions of years ago, says the "big bang" faction of cosmologists, and not a single atom has been created since that explosion. "Continual creation" cosmologists take a different tack. They believe that the matter in the universe was created gradually and is still being created, probably as neutrons or hydrogen atoms in the lonely spaces between the galaxies. Not quite satisfied with either theory, Professor William H. McCrea of the University of London's Royal Holloway College now offers an improvement on continual creation. In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
Harvard swept the last three matches as Chris Wichens beat Hoffman 11-9 at 177, Ben Brooks defeated Zensky 5-4 at 191, and Tack Chace decisioned Schneiderman 4-3 in the heavyweight class. All barely missed pins that would have given the meet to Harvard...