Word: recordability
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Southern Mississippi University was today declared the 1989 college football champion by a poll of writers for the Dissociated Press. The Golden Eagles, who compiled a poor 5-6 record, earned the title by defeating Florida State in their first game of the season. Florida State later beat Miami, which later beat Notre Dame, which on New Year's Day beat Colorado, the top-rated college team. "If the polls say we're No. 1," exulted a Southern Miss fan, "who's to complain...
...world's ice and 68% of its fresh water. Although the sun shines continuously in the summer months, the rays hit the land at too sharp an angle to melt the ice. At the South Pole, the average temperature is -49 degrees C (-56.2 degrees F) and the record high is -13.6 degrees C (7.5 degrees F). During the . perpetual darkness of winter, the temperature falls to almost inconceivable levels. The lowest ever recorded was in 1983 at the Soviet Union's Vostok Base: -89.2 degrees C (-128.6 degrees...
Terms such as "weaker teams" and "must win," though, don't necessarily mean a sure win, especially in the case of the Big Red, which enters its Ivy-opening game tonight with a 5-7 record following two straight wins by margins of more than 20 points...
...49ers' success is Montana, 33, who has overcome elbow, knee and rib injuries to play the greatest season of his career. In 1989 the former Notre Dame star threw for 26 touchdowns and set a new pass-efficiency rating record of 112.41 (a calculation based on completions, yards gained, number of touchdowns and number of interceptions). His completion percentage of 70.2% brought his career mark to 63.9%, highest in N.F.L. history...
Over and over, as if to exorcise the evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours. Haggard, wrapped in a fur-lined overcoat, his hair in tangles, he sat with his wife Elena behind two folding tables pushed together to form a makeshift dock...