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...surprises. Split End James Mallard, a world-class track man until a few weeks ago (in 1979 Mallard ran the world's second fastest 200 meters), played the first football game of his life against Georgia Tech. He caught the first pass ever thrown to him and, naturally, outran Tech's defenders for a touchdown...
...with a flourish. Scott McCabe, the top rusher on last year's freshman team, came up with the play of the game when he returned a Dave Cody kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. The runback, in which he cut through a nicely-formed wedge of blockers, then outran everybody up the right sideline, along with a 36-yd. run on a screen pass against the first-team defense, will put the West-borough native in line for some playing time Saturday. Sophomore defensive right end Joe Margolis had another strong outing and should challenge junior Justin Whittington...
...exactly the smothering warmth Americans, unlike Europeans, have come to expect. In apartment buildings with fireplaces, urbanites are joining the national craze for wood power. When Chicago's park district had some trees chopped down in Lincoln Park last month, the loggers outran the joggers to haul away the wood before the city could remove...
Harvard clearly outran and outskilled the hapless Terriers, even though three Crimson starters watched the game from the bench and the players on the field had to adjust to the wider and smoother surface of the Business School field...
...well. As the pickup hurtles along Route 66, Moore recalls his last big storm. It ended up chasing him all over north central Texas, then dispersed, then treacherously re-formed and became the deadly tornado that killed more than 40 people last April in Wichita Falls. Moore outran it for 15 minutes, until it crossed the road behind his truck. Says he: "It sounded just like a commercial jet landing...