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...Hagan had a particularly poor sequence late in the third quarter. He had an errant pass intercepted by sophomore linebacker Matthew Thomas and returned inside the 10-yard line to set up first second-team touchdown, a seven-yard scamper from sophomore running back Randy Ojukwu that gave the second team a 10-7 lead...
...possessions later, O’Hagan was picked off by Thomas again, this time resulting in a field goal from freshman Patrick Long to make the score 13-7. Ojukwu capped the scoring on a two-yard touchdown run with 22 seconds left in the game...
...wore green jerseys to minimize contact. Freshman linebacker Matthew Thomas had a 62-yard interception return that set up the game’s first score. Three plays later, Pizzotti hit freshman Alex Breaux for a 10-yard touchdown.WAITING TO RUSHThe Crimson running game was paced by freshman Randy Ojukwu, who carried 17 times for 118 yards and an 18-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. The bulk of other rushing duties were handled by sophomore Noah Van Niel and freshman Michael Doerner. Dawson’s backup, sophomore Charles Baakel, also sat out the game, so the three...
Long the best-educated and most industrious of Nigeria's tribes, the Ibos have used their resources to rebuild their war-torn region instead of carrying on a vendetta. When the war ended, the defeated Biafran leader, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu,* bitterly boasted that the Ibos would rebel again. He turned out to be wrong. Ibos these days rarely speak of Biafra or of secession. "We tried and lost," says an Ibo businessman in Ibadan. "That finishes it. From now on, we are all Nigerians...
...ravaged Nigeria in 1966. The first, led mostly by Ibos, aroused anti-Ibo feeling that ended in the massacre of some 10,000 Ibos throughout the country. The second brought Gowon, a 32-year-old northerner, to power. As military governor of the Eastern Region, the Oxford-educated Ojukwu was too proud and too ambitious to recognize Gowon as head of state. Instead, following the massacres, he began to arm the East-and proceeded to use the Ibos' fear of genocide to stir up the phenomenal Biafran war effort. Gowon warned him sadly, "If circumstances compel me to preserve...