[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 5, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S17991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL TEAM

  Ms. MOSELEY-BRAUN. Mr. President, I wanted to take a moment to 
congratulate Northwestern University's football team, the Wildcats, 
who, in Senate resolution 197, offered by Senator Simon and me, are 
being honored and congratulated for one of the greatest underdog 
champion stories in the history of sports. The Northwestern team is now 
being called ``the miracle on Central Street.'' What they have done 
here is to celebrate the first conference championship in some 60 
years.
  Coach Barnett has taken this team from really a very low profile in 
the conference to being a top contender, now in the Rose Bowl. They are 
going to go to Pasadena. He fulfilled his pledge to take the Purple to 
Pasadena. That rally and cry has taken this team to a 10-1 season, a 
No. 3 national ranking, and a feat which has, frankly, not been 
accomplished by any one team in over 30 years.
  Northwestern really proved that it is possible to produce a national 
football champion as well as Nobel Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize 
winners and academicians throughout the world. They have captured, by 
their actions, the hearts of fans all over the country. They have made 
all of us from Illinois very proud of them. If nothing else, the 
football team, in their perseverance, hard work, and dedication, have 
proved once again in this Christmas season that miracles do happen.
  I thank my colleagues for their time.
  Mr. BRYAN. Mr. President, I join in congratulating Northwestern. I 
was 11 the last time they went to Pasadena. So it is time for the 
Purple not only to go to Pasadena but to win in Pasadena.

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