Word: bruin
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Following a scoreless first quarter, the potent Bruin attack erupted for a 17-0 lead at intermission. Jose Violante, Brown's three-point machine, blasted a 47-yard field goal. Quarterback Bob Bateman and Farnham hooked up for an electrifying 55-yard touchdown toss. The fireworks were preceded by a one-yard dive for six by Kevin Slattery...
...fact of the matter is that the loser of today's game at Princeton will have put itself in an extremely difficult position. A Bruin loss would give the Providence contingent a 2-1-1 Ivy record, and drop them to somewhere around third place in the league...
...concentrate on the last 16 years of Brown football, which just happens to coincide with the period when the Bruin gridiron program turned as sour as a program can turn. Before that eventful fall of 1959, Brown had fielded respectable pigskin outfits, and had produced more winners than losers. In fact, the Bruins had participated in the first Rose Bowl, losing 14-0 to Washington State back...
...following a 6-3 season the year before, Brown hired a new coach by the name of John J. McLaughry. The regimes of McLaughry and of his successor, Len Jardine, spanned the next 14 autumns in Providence, and went down in Bruin history the same way that the Nixon and Harding Administrations were recorded in American annals...
...Bateman, Brown's 6-ft.-5-in. transfer quarterback from the University of Vermont, ran the Bruin offense in the first half, clicking on nine passes with receiver Bob Farnham for 98 yards...