Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no easy way to hold down the score. Yale Coach Jordan Olivar cleared his bench, but the subs, bent on letters (for one minute in the game), did as well as the varsity. The only Harvard boys who seemed able to outplay their opponents were in the fine Crimson band. And at the end, even they had to sit in sullen silence while Yale's musicmen blared away with Goodnight, Poor Harvard, and the big Bowl Scoreboard bragged about the biggest victory "The Game" has ever known: Yale 54, Harvard...
...retired last February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern white primary. Southerners could take comfort, however, from Reed's reputation as the court's most conservative member during his latter years on the bench. Predicted Democrat Reed: "I'm sure we'll have plenty of trouble." ¶ Vice chairman: Michigan State President John A. Hannah, 55. Republican Hannah served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel from 1953-54, was an NRA poultry code administrator in the early 19305, became...
...first quarter ended with cries of "Hey, what's going on, you Tigers" and "Well, let's start to move out there, you Tigers," rising from the Princeton bench...
...Morris, who had spent most of the game on the bench, came in for Dan Sachs and found the tired Crimson defense just to his liking. In the ten minutes of the fourth quarter which Morris spent on offense he completed three passes for 30 yards and one touchdown, and ran for 77 yards in seven carries, scoring the final Tiger touchdown on a brilliant 39-yard swerving dash through the entire Crimson team...
...Birmingham. After hearing the evidence, an all-Southern, all-white jury deliberated 40 minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. Alabama-born Judge Alta King sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment-the maximum permissible under Alabama law. "This is one of the worst things ever to come before my bench," said the judge. "I have found nothing in the testimony to justify less than the limit...