Close to zip: Ross Atkins of the...
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Close to zip: Ross Atkins of the Christian Science Monitor notes that the University of Akron Zips nearly lived down to their nickname this football season. They won only one game under former Notre Dame Coach Gerry Faust, who has retired, and that against winless Ohio University in the season finale.
Zips, by the way, doesn’t refer to zero but is short for Zipper, a brand of overshoes once made by the hometown B.F. Goodrich Co.
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