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South House Q.B. Joe Auteri couldn't quite match those stats, mostly because of a surprising Quincy pass rush and airtight secondary. The vaunted Rebel offensive line couldn't contain the charge of Quincy's Paul Rozak, John Keane, John Garvey, and Lance Miller, particularly in the second half, and the usually potent SoHo passing attack only managed 30 yards on five completions...
Somehow, the team seems to go flat at the same time the opposition gets fired up. Ask Christie Littlejohn or Michele Somes--two Eli forwards who found seams in the usually airtight Crimson defense to notch early goals...
...born. Recalls Editor Thernstrom (whose name is Swedish): "We started on the assumption that there were something on the order of 50 or 60 ethnic groups. We ended up with 106-and even that is a somewhat arbitrary figure." Part of the problem was that nobody has an airtight definition of what an ethnic group is. Basic differences of national origin, race and language are clear enough. But sometimes groups are distinguished from one another by other characteristics, such as food preferences or political affiliations in the homeland. As Sociologist Milton Gordon suggests, ethnicity may mean nothing more precise than...
Backing up the Navy pitching staff will be the midshipmen's nearly-airtight infield, featuring the highly touted double play combination of Rich Seiler and Mike Mulliken. Seiler last year was fifth in the nation in hitting and is now batting at a .400 clip, while Mulliken has been rapping out hits to the tune of a .500 average...
...Crimson laxmen's well-oiled offensive units combined with an airtight defense Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, and rolled right over the lackluster Quaker stickmen, 13-5, giving the squad four wins in a row since a season-opening loss to Johns Hopkins...