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...advantage after the first quarter on goals by freshman Gary Pedroni and Bill Forbush. Pedroni started on attack along with fellow Yardling Mike Ward and veteran Steve Martin, while Chico MacKenzie made his second start on midfield and early-season star Pete Predun sat on the bench...
...teams is that few front-office and head coaching jobs are held by blacks. There is one black major league manager, but no black has been trusted to send runners home from the third-base coaching box. Only the N.B.A. has blacks in major decision-making positions. Even the bench is a white preserve. Unlike some white athletes, blacks do not have the luxury of being marginal players. For them, it is stardom or back to the minors. According to a 1967 study, black players had higher batting averages than their white counterparts at every position...
...team was unanimous in its conviction that this suicidal inconsistency would disappear as the young players gained experience, but you can stick with that line only so long. Many of the current sophomores have been regulars for almost two full seasons now. Tennis sat on the bench as a reserve middie until the middle of his junior season, but by the next spring he was the team's big gun, playing best in the closest games. Are the two situations that much different...
...there is a simple derth of middies who pack offensive punch, and that is why coach Bob Scalise has had to shuffle his units all spring. He has had to make do without graduated 1976 regulars McCall, Bruce Bruckmann, Gilles Whalen, and Andy Gellis. Mike Faught, exiled to the bench as a reserve attackman in the early going, is the only middie to garner as many as ten points. Forbush, who connected eight times last year, is still without a goal this time around. Bobby Mellen, who got a goal a game in 1976, has been limited to half that...
After languishing on the bench early in the season as a reserve attackman, Faught has won a starting spot on midfield, and has been the only real middie scoring threat the team has had in recent games. He garnered a second goal in the fourth quarter...