Word: orangemen
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...playing for the basketball title were an elixir, the football teams of Indiana and Syracuse have kept the ball going into the fall. For the first time ever, the Hoosiers have trimmed both Ohio State and Michigan on the same calendar, and this time the Orangemen have gone them one better. On top of beating both Penn State and Pitt, 17 years in the trying, Syracuse is undefeated. It is 1959 again...
...title game, and the press invites Alford into the discussion. Socks, shorts, one, two, three. "I've survived for four years," he backs off in a panic. "I've only got one more game." Indiana won it, 74-73, over the Syracuse Orangemen. Their perfectly competent but strangely insecure coach, Jim Boeheim, was slightly outflanked at the end of both halves. As always, Knight was worth a few points from the bench...
...Orangemen, ranked No. 10 nationally and second in the region behind the Tar Heels, held off upstart Florida 87-81 in the opening game at the Brendan Byrne Arena behind a career-high 33-point performance by center Rony Seikaly...
Many now fear that the fuse of Protestant anger could be set alight by the Orangemen's peaceful but boisterously partisan rites. So it is that Irish eyes are anxiously turned to the climax of the year's 1,800 marches this coming Saturday. As many as half a million Protestants will take to the streets across the province in memory of Protestant William of Orange's victory over James II, England's last Roman Catholic King, at the Battle of the Boyne, 296 years...
...threat of further violence has cast a long shadow over the Orangemen marches this summer. The grand master of the Orange Order, the Rev. Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public plea for restraint. For its part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a predominantly Protestant police force, is planning to reroute the ceremonies from possible flash points. But merely changing the line of march could provoke more protests from hard-line Protestants. At any time this summer, the men of Orange could...