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Several of Fell's decipherments are based on inscriptions that professional archeologists say are frauds. The most interesting is a tablet found by one Reverend Jacob Gass in an Indian burial mound in Davenport, Iowa in 1877. (Among other errors in Fell's discussion of the tablet, he says it was found...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...Davenport tablet, which is one of the tablets discovered in the mound, is none other than the breakthrough Readers' Digest compared to the Rosetta Stone...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...that quarterback Tim Davenport, who hinted of greatness, barely got to play in 1977, breaking two neck vertebrae on a touchdown run in toe Columbia...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of '77: Should Old Acquaintance Etc. | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Kubacki can't play--and this is doubtful--then Tim Davenport, who took over in the second half along with a great many second-stringers, will. Davenport didn't do much offensively against the Quakers, the lone second-half points coming via a 26-yard Lynch field goal following a 34-yard Baggott interception return, but he's hardly played this season, and Saturday's game experience certainly didn't hurt...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Pennsylvania Turnovers Recharge Crimson, 20-8 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Which means that the players will probably shake each other's hands after the game, a probable Crimson victory. And Tim Davenport might even get a chance to play again. Only this time, if he enters the game in the fourth quarter, the 24-point advantage will probably be in Harvard's favor...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Invade Princeton; Top Spot Is at Stake | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

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