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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew coming into the game that we couldn't just run over them, or we couldn't just throw over them--we had to mix it up," Murphy said. "We did that in the first half, but the blew us off the ball in the second...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: ALMOST | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...weeks, while the role of investigator Richard Goodwin has been vastly exaggerated. But the real problem is the easy Hollywood cliches into which history has been transformed. The Van Doren clan is a caricature of effete Waspishness, Goodwin a garden-variety TV-movie crusader. Herb Stempel, who blew the whistle on the scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes of Van Doren and Stempel on Twenty-One. Van Doren's theatrical groping for answers today looks phony, while Stempel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Why Quiz Show Is a Scandal | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the halftime whistle blew soon after Bowdoin's shot, and while a break from the action will often take momentum away from a team, it only got the Crimson more psyched...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Battles to Tough Win at Springfield | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

...Crimson defense, which blew an 18-point lead against the Lions, may focus solely on Lemon this Saturday. The sophomore registered impressive statistics last weekend, finishing the day with three touchdowns and 171 yards rushing on 22 carries. It was his sixth-straight 100-yard rushing performance...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Primed Gridders Set to Skin Bisons | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...improvement over Lion teams past. Sure, the Columbia defense was weak, giving up 424 total yards and 28 points to the Crimson, but offensively, it was extremely impressive. Its line shot off the ball noticeably harder than in past years and monstrous running backs John Harper and Marcellus White blew open holes to the tune of 77 and 49 yards, respectively. It executed soundly, and the Crimson interior defensive line came crashing down...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Not Too Bad | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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