Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injuries came each week; old, familiar numbers began riding the bench; new faces popped up from the Jayvees as Harlow desperately tried one combination after another in search of a winning...
Thus, the Varsity would never make a trip while the Jayvees were at home. Jayvees could be substituted for injured Varsity players and men who might ride the bench all season as second or third string material would be given the opportunity to pick up valuable experience...
...evident that Holy Cross was in for setback No.2 from its fellow Jesuits. Frisky St. Louis U., with a 23-point lead, calmly took out its regulars and began filling in with subs. Even the subs were hot shots. Before the game ended, nearly everybody on the Billikens' bench got a chance to play, and Holy Cross went down with a crash, 61 to 46. St. Louis U., which hadn't had an athletic team of any kind to cheer about since 1906,* had quietly developed one of the best college basketball teams...
...have a fourth down on the Crimson 20-yard line. Actually, Eli coach Howle Odell sent Billy Booe into the game with instructions to try a run around end, feeling that his place-kicker was not capable of such a lengthy field goal endeavor. Something went amiss between the bench and the huddle and Yale got three unexpected points...
...stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits that he has been in the wrong." Said one M.P. of the temporarily disgraced Dalton: "He'll serve his penance on the back bench for a few months-but mark my words, Hugh will get back...