Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hate to be confronted by any parent and have to admit that his boy had been kept on the bench throughout a game because somebody with an athletic scholarship could play the position better than he," Bingham commented in explaining his views on professionalized athletics...
...story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets out to prove otherwise. Far as possible from a languid Tennessee whittlers' bench are Author Shute and his material, but somehow even in embattled London men go on telling stories...
...backs from the disappointing 1939 eleven gone via the sheepskin route. Nine lettermen were on hand, four of whom were linemen. Captain and tackle Wyatt Smythe, brother of end Bill Smythe, and guards Pete Craft and Gene Hubbard, the latter of whom spent most of last season on the bench, are the returning lettermen...
...against Hobart, Tom Mulroy, Obie Slingerland and Perry Sawyer is also available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...
...their haughties on Vitt, the fans took it out on them. Everywhere they went, they were heckled. The "foreign press" (any writer outside Cleveland) dubbed them "Cry Babies." Rival teams sent them rubber panties, rattles, perambulators. When they went to bat, they were "boohooed" from their opponents' bench. Once they found a baby's bottle in their dugout...