Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as he did last year, Princeton's injury-prone pass pitcher, Royce N. Flippin Jr., ended a long season of bench-warming by leading his team to an upset victory over Yale...
Farrell himself is busy with the immense chore of packing for forty-odd football players. "These two trunks are for the BaBas," he explains, describing the thick fleece-lined jackets worn by players on the bench. "These here," he smiles, opening one of the big trunks, "are partitioned into small boxes, so we can protect the helmets individually." Other trunks display newly-greased shoes, folded underwear, bright jerseys. Before each game, Farrell and his assistants check over every piece of equipment--shoelaces, hip-and-kidney pads, helmet straps--for every member of the team...
After this first-string threat, the varsity could also gain an edge with its backfield depth, although neither squad can boast real manpower on the bench. The Bruins' test of reserve strength, which is admittedly shallow, could come against the Crimson's second line...
Unfair as much of it was. Gaitskell's attack hit home. Butler's face flushed, and one or two of his back-bench supporters deserted him and voted with the Laborites when the division came. In the end, the Tories had the votes, and Butler's budget would be accepted; yet his remedies were not only unpopular, they were also, to many minds, inadequate...
While one of the most stirring rallies in Big Ten football history unfolded on the field, a big, shaggy man walked stolidly back and forth in front of the Michigan bench. Under similar pressures, other big-time coaches kick water buckets, curse officials, bully their assistants, and alternately cheer and chew out their players. Michigan's Benjamin Oosterbaan, 49, seems as imperturbable as a 50-yard stripe. But his men know that, inside, he suffers. Says one: "He looks like a character out of a Russian novel...