Football Off To A Shaky Start Here

Football is off to a shaky start here in the Ocean State. Rhode Island’s favorite pro team was humiliated in its season opener last week, its flagship state university is 0-2, and its top business school lost by eight touchdowns last Saturday. The good news is that the Ocean State’s Ivy League entry at long last kicks off its season on Saturday, and its Division III team is undefeated. Let’s proceed in reverse order. Salve Regina University, the consistent winner from Newport, is 2-0 after victories over Worcester State Montclair State of New Jersey. The Seahawks won each game by a touchdown. They will play at Dean on Saturday. Brown launches its 140 th season Saturday afternoon at Brown Stadium against Bryant. The pre-game story line is Bryant’s rookie head coach, James Perry, matching wits against his college coach, Phil Estes. Perry was Brown’s record-smashing quarterback in the late 1990s and as a senior led Brown to the 1999 Ivy League championship in Estes’s second year as a head

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