Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bench, nose bleeding from earlier action, came Normie Cameron to boot the winning point. The center snapped the ball, Cameron kicked, a low aerial that zoomed off the hand of an opposing lineman, flew high in the air, came down, hit the crossbar and bounded over for the winning point. This was enough for a victory, and the Bunnies trotted off with a hard...
...shift was made because Harlow thinks Row is too good a player to sit on the bench for most of the game, which is what he has been doing as substitute for ironman Chub Peabody. Row, who has been coming up fast after a two-year absence from the gridiron, will probably see more action as sub for Dick Pfister...
...bench he and Justice Holmes were complementary. Holmes was the great intuitive mind, operating from inherent genius and great solid foundations of history and philosophy. Brandeis was the man who could prove what Holmes guessed. Economics, except in its philosophic or historic aspects, bored Holmes, aroused Brandeis...
...Coach's bench at Notre Dame, hallowed by the great Rockne's buttprints, is the toughest spot in U.S. football. On it this season is 33-year-old Frank Leahy, who quit Boston College at the chance to coach at Notre Dame (his alma mater) when Elmer Layden last winter resigned to become tsar of the professional National Football League. Besides a traditionally tough schedule, brave Coach Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand...
Judge Caffey does not write his decisions, prefers to ad lib them from the bench. With an occasional glance at his foolscap notes, he spoke for five days in a row last week, had another four or five days to go. His high-pitched emphases and muttered diminuendos even included instructions to the stenographers: "period, paragraph . . . quote, parenthesis . . . unquote." His whole audience was fascinated by his virtuoso command of the case. But only the Alcoa men were pleased...