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Despite a slow start ( a 1 – 10 record in his first year ), he made gradual improvement, but could never quite break the. 500 mark, leading the Green Wave to a 4 – 7 in 1986 and, in 1987, to a 6 – 6 record and a trip to the Independence Bowl, Tulane's fifth bowl game in over 40 years.
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