Sentences with phrase «overtime championship game»

This SI Classic from January 1959 recounts the overtime championship game in which the NFL came of age

As his dad, I'd assigned him to ladle cabbage to the homeless in soup kitchens, and as his coach, to break the press in the last second of one - point, double - overtime championship games.

Not exact matches

In overtime Swampscott pulled off the win and punched their ticket to the Division 3 state championship game.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

In the 1958 NFL championship game Unitas executed the seminal two - minute drill — 85 yards in seven plays on the frozen turf at Yankee Stadium — to force overtime with the Giants.

BC, which finished the regular season 29 -8-2 and ranked second in the nation, seemed primed to break that drought after a 4 - 2 victory in Thursday's semifinal against Michigan, to whom it had fallen in overtime in the»98 championship game.

The San Antonio Spurs were just seconds away from winning their fifth championship in franchise history before an improbable series of events helped the Miami Heat force overtime and eventually a decisive Game 7.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban holds up the championship trophy after overtime of the NCAA college football playoff championship game against Georgia, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Atlanta.

Top Photo: Alabama Crimson Tide wide receiver DeVonta Smith (6) scores the game - winning touchdown against Georgia Bulldogs safety Dominick Sanders (24) during overtime in the 2018 CFP national championship