Word: marcellus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week in Lewiston, Me., Cassius Marcellus Clay, 23, fought a fight that did not seem to be a fight, threw a punch that did not look like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor--in the theater of the absurd...
...sure, it takes some nit-picking to find fault with the play of tailbacks junior Troy Jones, sophomore Chris Menick and freshman Chuck Nwokocha. It's also difficult to argue with the way the offensive line bullied a Lions defensive front sapped by the departures of All-Ivy perennials Marcellus Wiley and Rory Wilfork...
Last year it was largely the Lions' defense that led it to eight wins and earned Coach Ray Tellier Division II Coach of the Year honors. But the defensive line will have to cope with the graduation of several of its key components, particularly defensive end Marcellus Wiley...
Branagh sets the play in a pre-World-War-I era, apparently for no reason other than novelty. As all Hamlet-o-philes know, the story begins with the sighting of King Hamlet's ghost by Horatio (Nicholas Ferrell), Marcellus (Jack Lemmon '47) and Barnardo (Ian McElhinney). Here Bismarck-style hats poised atop the head of an improbably cast Marcellus steal a scene intended to prepare the audience for the play's mood of ranting and revenge. But to the audience's consternation, the period so over-emphasized early on plays a minor or non-existent role later...
...high snap from freshman deep-snapper Frank Volpe allowed 6'5" Columbia defensive end Marcellus Wiley to block the kick. But the Crimson special teams still had a chance to score. The Columbia player who recovered the block--junior defensive back Roy Hanks--took the ball on the five yard line and ran back into the endzone, trying to gain yardage by reversing his field. Several would-be Harvard tacklers had the opportunity to tackle Hanks for a safety, but each came up empty-handed as Hanks advanced the ball to the Columbia 27-yard line...