Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be open to every taxpayer's son & daughter. Says Sproul: "You can't do anything as long as the G.I.s are coming anyway. You can't keep those boys waiting around while you remodel the educational system." But he is sure ("I'll bet my hat on it") that the state university of the future will be "a university more likely to produce great scholars than great football players. It won't be an educational country club...
After the game Dick Harlow bet the newsmen that Howie Houston, a tremendous tackle all afternoon, lost at least ten pounds during the course of play...
...bet that nobody won. A manager who was sent scurrying after the weight chart returned with the information that Howie had not weighed in after the game. He had fallen asleep on the rubbing table. Maybe he was training for next week's trip to the sleepy south...
...theory: a pat on the back is worth two pep talks. He took a talented but out-of-sorts team, listened to all the complaints, took the players' side in any beef with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher was called on the mat for openly betting on the horses, Bucky piped up with, "So what ... I'd bet too, if I thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher...
...hopes that some heavy tackle new to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any ten games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant...