Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...then along came a former Colorado assistant coach named Gary Barnett. He arrived on campus four years ago, and at a Northwestern basketball game in January '92, he told Wildcat fans and students that he was "taking the Purple to Pasadena." The 49-year-old Barnett now says he can't believe he made such a claim. "When I first got here," he told Football News, "I was very naive to what our problems were. I assumed that everyone here wanted to change, that everybody was sick and tired of losing. But that wasn't true. Some people became very...
Indeed, Barnett's first three seasons did not exactly foretell Northwestern's current success: 3-8, 2-9, 3-7-1. In the meantime, though, he was recruiting some very good talent and instilling in his players a new sense of confidence. Before the first game of the year, against heavily favored Notre Dame, Barnett told his players not to carry him off the field when they won. Not if they won. When they...
...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...