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The authors provide plenty of domestic detail -- we learn that Scottish botanist David Douglas, of Douglas fir fame, once had his coat stolen after he took it off to climb a tree -- but the Gribbins are less successful at conveying the sense of a larger cultural context.
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"More than any other individual," the Gribbins write, Hooker "was responsible for the rhododendron craze that swept Victorian England."
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"When the first pirate ship, confident of victory, was only twenty yards away," the Gribbins write, "Fortune let fly with both barrels of the shotgun."
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These oversights are understandable, though -- the Gribbins had to make certain choices.
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Nobody expects sophomore quarterback Dane Hurley, coach Hurley's son, to match Gribbins 'numbers.
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Gribbins finished No. 8 on Indiana's career passing list with 8,715 yards.
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Gribbins began the extra period with a 3-pointer and added another later.
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The pass rush forced Gribbins into some poor throws and decisions -- the game could also have turned with one more interception -- but the secondary struggled to contain a deep and talent corps of receivers.
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After giving up 299 yards to Batesville's spread offense, Bishop Chatard surrendered 327 to Gribbins and Evansville Memorial.
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"We hope we can go out and do our job this year and finish what we didn't do last year," said Gribbins, the Tigers 'quarterback.
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