Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second year in Philadelphia, Berndt led a team picked to finish last in the league to the Ivy championship, the first at Penn since 1959. The Quakers--whose seven victories that season were two more than Penn had accumulated in the previous four years--were college football's big surprise...
Berndt attributes grumblings about his student-athletes to "sour grapes," citing the fact that in his four-plus years in Philadelphia only two Penn football players have failed to earn a degree...
Stetson and Berndt both say it has been directly responsible for a new outlook on the Philadelphia campus each fall, has prompted an increase in alumni giving, and has prompted athletes who might not otherwise have applied to give Penn a closer look...
...while Vigna and Smith stole top honors, other netwomen also turned in noteworthy performances in Philadelphia. In singles, Martha Berkman almost defeated the fourth seeded Shane in the quarter finals, while Cyndi Austrian gave McMahon a scare in a tight three-set battle...
...recent network series like Webster, now earn their production companies as much as $1.5 million per episode in nationwide syndication deals. Independents will spend an estimated $750 million to buy programs this year, up from $75 million in 1975. Says Eugene McCurdy, president of the independent WPHL-TV in Philadelphia: "I think Mr. Murdoch's timing is excellent. The market is there, waiting to be served...