Word: bender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical front, Valpey was happy to report that there were no injuries incurred in practice yesterday. But as for the group already injured, the news was not so good. Captain Howie Houston still has a 50-50 chance to play Saturday, but Chief Bender, behemoth tackle, almost certainly will not participate in the Columbia game. Hal Moffie and Jim Kenary were counted definitely out last Monday...
...first contact work of the week, there were several temporary switches necessitated by Saturday's injuries. On offense, Sam Butler and Duke Sedgewick replaced Howie Houston and Chief Bender; on defense, Dick Guidera, John Coan, and Bill Rosenau plugged the middle of the line instead of Houston, Bender, and Butler...
...Kenary's safety man position on defense was filled by Bill Healey, and John White took over for Hal Moffie at tailback. While Kenary stood at the field house door on crutches, Moffie and Bender exercised briefly and appeared more limber than they had on Monday...
These four injuries, though, look big. Captain Howie Houston and tackle-guard Chief Bender are out of the line; Jim Kenary and Hal Moffie were on crutches and probably won't be in the backfield for a fortnight. None of the four will play against Columbia...
...team ran through signal drills yesterday at a fast clip, started work on the Lions' formations, and got in some shots at the dummies. Valpey was shifting men to cover in the holes made by the injuries--shifting that began during the game Saturday, when Houston, Kenary, Bender, and Moffie got their bumps...