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...Basically, you're looking at a guy who for four years has never dropped a ball," said Murphy of the punt. "It was kind of a fluke thing...
...definitely a weekend fluke," Alford said. "I'm pretty sure it'll never happen again...
...were nervous, we were jittery, and we were out of sync," said Cornell Coach Pete Mangurian. "We hung in there and finally got it done in the end. We feel tremendous about the outcome, and I'm so proud of this football team. It's not a fluke when you [stage a comeback] two weeks...
...knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could so easily have been otherwise, and in the weeks since I have sometimes...
Cornell's 1-0 overtime win over Brown, a top-25 team, certainly proves that the streak is no fluke...