Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Lou slowed down at the plate, benched himself half the season in favor of agile young Shortstop Ray Boone. The Indians, a red-hot pennant contender in August, cooled down in the September stretch while Manager Lou, always at his best as a field leader, sat on the bench nursing a sickly .269 batting average and a pair of sore, 33-year-old legs. Cleveland's new manager: 42-year-old Al Lopez, once (1947) a second-string catcher for Boudreau, since then a highly successful manager for the Indianapolis Indians. At week...
...Princeton, N.J., powerhouse Princeton over not-so-fair Harvard, 63-26, with Princeton clearing its bench to keep the score down but nonetheless running up the biggest score ever recorded against Harvard in its 76-year football history...
Second Stringers scored two goals as coach Bruce Munro cleared the bench during the soccer team's 4 to 0 win at M.I.T. yesterday. The only real differences between this year's game and the 9 to 0 victory of last year was the score; the Crimson had things its own way at all times, though the game was marked by sloppy play on both sides...
...game at tailback in place of the previously announced Ray. He is not the running threat that Ray is, but his record of 80 completions in 60 pass-attempts against teams of the caliber of Army and Council makes him too valuable to spend much time on the bench when the Crimson has the ball...
...teams of the two leagues, Law and Equity, playing five games. Shaw leads the Law, or dormitory league, with three wins and no defeats, while there is a three way tie for first place in the Equity, or nonresident league, between Lincoln's Inn, Chancery, and King's Bench...