Word: starter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson coach Joe Restic said Thursday he'd never count a player out after only one opportunity, and stated that Brown had the best chance of being named the starter, as he was last week. But once again, Restic reserved the right to wait until game time to actually make the final decision...
...defensive backfield, without the benefit of a single returning starter, has held up so far. But Columbia's quarterback couldn't throw well enough to provide a real test and UMass found it necessary to pass only four times...
...starter Luis Tiant picked up his twelfth victory as the Bostonians blew out the Tigers early and never gave them a chance to get back in the game...
With Tiger starter Fernando Arroyo settling down to mow down Boston's awesome lineup, the game rested on the shoulders of the Sox pitching staff. As has happened so often in 1977, the mound crew did not come through...
Northwest was a last-minute starter in the competition. Ironically, Northwest had been a division of El Paso until 1974, when the Justice Department forced El Paso to divest itself of Northwest, and McMillian managed to gain control. Two years later, McMillian entered the pipeline race, and he learned fast. To enlist across-the-border support, he joined forces with two Canadian companies and christened his project Alcan. McMillian proved unabashedly opportunistic. When he heard, for example, that influential congressional staffers favored a route south from Prudhoe to Fairbanks, he seized on it. His approach inspired a Washington quip: "McMillian...