Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Bruce Munro will stay with the same personnel he has been playing, except that he may experiment by juggling the lineup. He plans to "open out" the team's offense, since the attack has been jammed up in front of the opponents' goal in the past two games...
...aging veterans of the two teams canceled each other out (the Dodgers' Hodges, Furillo and Snider v. the White Sox's Wynn, Kluszewski and Lollar). The Dodgers won because their defense turned the touted Chicago go-go attack to molasses. The whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman...
...from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued for $5,000,000 by M-G-M for refusing to appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang on a 1954 CBS-TV show. He sought refuge...
...iron-willed National Football League Commissioner (1946-59) who, by a liberal use of his powers and an occasional violation of the letter of the bylaws, turned professional football into a booming sport, aroused interest to the point of doubling attendance and players' salaries; after a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...varsity's defense was, as usual, impenetrable. Lanny Keyes played a nearly perfect game at left fullback, and halfback Charlie Steele bottled up the Columbia attack on the right. At the one point when a sensational stop was needed, goalie Tom Bagnoli came through. In the fourth quarter, Lion center forward Haakan Rutchinsky had a clear shot from close in, but Bagnoli rose to the occasion with a spectacular diving save...