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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This novel marks another step in one of the most interesting careers in contemporary letters. It has taken a while for that shoe to drop. The Middle Ground, British Author Margaret Drabble's ninth novel, appeared in 1980 and underscored a process that had begun several books earlier: a movement away from the narrow, intense psychological portraits of her early fiction (A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year) toward panoramas of realistic characters placed in a recognizable society. Drabble's progress was retrograde, running against the modern notion that fiction should be deep and singular rather than broad and general...
Complementing Flynn in the Quaker backfield--which averages over 200 yards a game on the ground--are Bryan Keys (486 yards rushing), Jim Bruni (288) and Mike Waller (272). The Penn passing attack is more shaky, with part-time starters John Keller and Malcolm Glover combining for less than 100 yards per game through the air. The Quaker QBs have thrown 14 interceptions and only four...
Defensive Line: Harvard's front five can control the action of any game from the line of scrimmage. Even against a Crusader rushing attack that averages close to 200 yards per game, Captain Kevin Dulsky and Co. gave up only 128 yards on the ground. With its four sacks of Holy Cross QB Jeff Wiley, Harvard now has 33 for the season. The single-season record...
Defensive Line: The Quaker front three of Dan Bauer, Mike Lista, and Ross Parsons anchor a Penn defense that has given up 1262 yards on the ground. Lista is second on the team with 56 tackles and tied for first on the squad with six sacks. Bauer has recorded 41 total tackles. Overall, Penn has sacked opposing quarterbacks 26 times...
Other naive freshmen also expressed some disappointment with this new form of precipitation. "It wasn't like what I expected. It's a lot like rain. I didn't expect there to be ice on the ground, and I thought the entire ground would be covered with white," said Jim A. Barrios, a freshman from Southern California. Barrios said that he hadn't had much of a chance to play in the snow. "I'm having enough problems just keeping my balance...