Fourteen Points
Britishplural noun
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Fourteen points is the closest a Northern California team has gotten.
From Los Angeles Times
“Again, it doesn’t matter if you end up on the winning side of it, but eventually it does. Three football games we lost, we all lost in the fourth quarter. Seventeen points per game in the fourth quarter our final three ballgames. Seventeen points per game. That’s a statement. Fourteen points per game on the road in the fourth quarter. It’s very hard to be statistically very good, and it’s hard to win football games, and somehow we did. That’s something that, believe me, the message is being delivered.”
From Los Angeles Times
Actual result: Shapiro won by fourteen points.
From Slate
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.
From Washington Times
Fourteen points from a possible 24 might be good enough at any other club, but Tuchel leaves with PSG having lost four of their first 17 games.
From BBC
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