Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown (1-3, 1-1) climbed out of the cellar with a 27-23 upset of Princeton (1-3, 0-2) in Providence. Last season's first team All-Ivy selection Jason McCullough quarter-backed the Bears with 256 yards and three touchdowns. Brown defensive end Matt Simmons split defensive co-player of the week honors with Marrow thanks to an unbelievable game: six tackles for loss, four sacks, a blocked extra point, and an interception...
Other Ivy league teams spent the week locking horns with non-league opponents. Cornell lost 5-0 to Virginia, but beat Davidson 2-0. Princeton and Dartmouth also split their games, with Dartmouth winning against New Hampshire. Both Brown and Yale won their non-league games, with Yale downing Hofstra...
Political figures, who are increasingly desperate to show that they're regular folks, do a lot these days that is quite literally unbelievable, and they tend to do it on television. Citizens who witness some totally unlikely and thoroughly bizarre television appearance--sometimes for no more than a split second, since the use of remote-control devices is an aggravating factor here--may wake up the next morning wondering whether they saw it or not. Then they remember what their mothers said about overactive imaginations...
...owner Peter Angelos that the play be ruled an out and the game be replayed from the eighth inning with the Orioles ahead 4-3. Back on the field, the action has so far been terrific in both the American and National League Championship Series. The Yankees and Orioles split a pair of tight, tense games in New York that featured dramatic home runs, clutch pitching performances, and, of course, that memorable catch. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals have shown surprising power in hitting well against an Atlanta Braves pitching staff that just got through embarrassing the Dodger's hitters...
...Clinton's visit highlighted a recurring problem with the IOP's most popular events: the lack of space for many interested undergraduates. Fewer than half of the 1,000 undergraduates who entered the Clinton lottery got seats in the Forum or in overflow; the remaining tickets were split among graduates, faculty and staff, according to the Forum's director, Heather Campion...