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Defense of Smithwick '12 key to football success

Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week outside linebacker Daniel Smithwick '12 leads the football team in tackles and has played a pivotal role in Bruno's two shutouts this season. This past Saturday in the rain, the Bears blanked Penn 6-0, snapping the Quakers' 18-game Ivy win streak. Smithwick shut ...


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Team seeks varsity recognition

Though the women's rugby team has been quietly pushing for varsity status for the past 10 years, team members recently began appealing to University officials with renewed vigor. Their fight picked up after President Ruth Simmons' Oct. 17 response to the Athletics Review Committee's recommendations, ...


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The right Freese-on for fans

While walking around downtown last month, a man in a trench coat who smelled strongly of rubbing alcohol handed me a brochure. Typically, a guy in a trench coat is a pretty big red flag for me, and I can't help but look at those who wear them as flashers, drug dealers or — worst of all — ...


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Women's hockey eyes postseason

The women's hockey team may look completely different this season. Under new Head Coach Amy Bourbeau and playing in a new system, the Bears are off to a 1-1-1 start and are hoping to finish with a winning record for the first time in six seasons.


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Men take home fourth, women falter at Heps

While Saturday's unseasonable snowfall left many students shuffling in the cold between Halloween parties, the men's and women's cross country teams raced eight and six kilometers respectively in the swirling snow at the 2011 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships at Princeton.


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Bears confront Penn, abysmal weather in frozen deadlock

The women's soccer team battled through sleet and snow Saturday to earn a hard-fought 0-0 double-overtime draw against Ivy foe Penn. The Bears (10-4-2, 3-2-1 Ivy) held the Quakers (13-2-1, 4-1-1) scoreless in slippery conditions, marking only the second time this season that Penn has failed to find ...


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Bears snap Penn's 18-game Ivy win streak

In cold and rainy conditions at Brown Stadium Saturday, the Bears fought their way through the mud to a hard-earned 6-0 victory over two-time defending champion Penn. The win was Brown's (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) fifth straight and the first loss for Penn (4-3, 3-1 Ivy) in its last 18 league games.


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Bears look to snap streak tomorrow

The football team will look to break Penn's 18-game Ivy winning streak — currently the second-longest streak in Ivy League history — tomorrow at Brown Stadium. Though the Quakers (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) are two-time defending Ivy League champions and are currently tied with Harvard for first place, ...


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Bears taste honey at Lehigh Invitational

The women's golf team ended its season with a victory at the eight-team Lehigh Invitational held Oct. 22 and 23 at the Saucon Valley Country Club's Grace Course. The team registered a 607, finishing the weekend with a team score of 298 Sunday, the team's lowest round of the fall season.  


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NFL star search: the hunt for a quality quarterback

The NFL quarterback. He's synonymous with leadership, and is almost always the figurehead for his franchise. The man who takes a chunk of responsibility for his team's fortunes, whether deserved or not. The other thing about the quarterback is that, besides kickers and punters, he tends to have the ...


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Athlete of the Week: Marshall '13 leads team to 10 victories

With the race for the Ivy League title coming down to the wire, the women's soccer team (10-4-1, 3-2 Ivy) is heading into the final two games of its season on a hot streak. Forward Eliza Marshall '13 has kept her team in the hunt for glory, scoring four goals in the last four games, including a game-winner ...


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Women's soccer picks up crucial Ivy win in Ithaca

The women's soccer team kept its hopes of winning an Ivy League title alive this weekend by beating Cornell 2-1 in Ithaca Sunday. Two first-half goals from forward Eliza Marshall '13 and defender Diana Ohrt '13 gave Bruno (10-4-1, 3-2 Ivy) a crucial early advantage, and strong goalkeeping from MC Barrett ...


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Bears still looking for first Ivy win

The field hockey team fell to Cornell Saturday afternoon in Ithaca, dropping its fifth Ivy League game of the season. The Bears (3-11, 0-5 Ivy) matched two of the Big Red's goals, but Cornell (7-8, 1-4) pushed through and came away with a 4-2 win.


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Quarterback clash set for tomorrow

The football team will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to square off against Cornell tomorrow in a battle between two of the Ivy League's most high-powered passing attacks. Led by sophomore quarterback Jeff Mathews, the Big Red's (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) offense averages 290.6 yards per game through the air. But Brown ...




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