Word: northwestern
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...this fascination with the color purple? Well, it is the dominant color of Chicagoland's favorite, mighty, Rose Bowl--bound football team, Da Wildcats. Da Northwestern Wildcats...
Prior to this season, the words mighty, Rose Bowl and Northwestern last appeared in the same sentence in 1948. "Da" was an inarticulate article reserved for Bulls, Bears and Blackhawks. The ineptitude of Northwestern football was so profound that the "Mildcats" lost 34 straight games during one extended period, and in the 24 years between '71 and '95, they averaged two victories a year. During the waning moments of losing games, the academically prideful students would chant at opposing teams, "That's all right. That's O.K. You're gonna work for us someday...
...awards are already pouring in for this Harvard team on the rise. The Midland Tournament, which features past and current college wrestlers from around the country, has accepted Denunzio's and Mosley's application to compete. The tourney is held over winter break, December 28-30 at Northwestern...
Just ask the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, or Michael Change at the 1989 French Open, or the 1987 Minnesota Twins, or the 1981 San Francisco 49ers, or the 1969 New York Mets, or the 1983 North Carolina State Wolfpack, or the 1995 Northwestern football team. Or even Bobby Cremins. (But don't ask Rudy...
...answer. Then there was a crucial meeting in London that resulted in a shift of authority on the ground from the U.N. to NATO. Finally in August, the Croats launched a scorching offensive on the Serbs in the Krajina region, and the Croat-Bosnian federation attacked the Serbs in northwestern Bosnia. The Bosnian Serbs lost more and more ground, and in late September they were ready to deal...