Word: bill
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...infield looks fairly well set with Ignacio, Dick Manchester, Jeff Grate and Bill Cobb. Manchester, at second, will provide the team with one of the best gloves in the league even though he lacks power at the plate. Grate, at short-stop, is also a good fielder and has a bat to match. At third, Bill Cobb has a .308 batting average and a strong...
Merle McClung played basketball in the shadow of Bill Bradley. While Bradley was becoming something of a demigod at Princeton, the 6-5 McClung was calmly breaking every existing Harvard scoring record, winning All-Ivy and All-East status...
...swum any event that included backstroke since Christmas. It was a carefully guarded secret that he had injured his shoulder, forcing him to give up backstroke or risk permanent injury. Kaumann's unexpected appearance in the I.M. was the first of several monkey wrenches that Crimson coach Bill Brooks threw into the Eli machine...
...next shocker and the meet clincher came in the 200-yard breaststroke. Harvard's sophomore star Bill Chadsey ranked a clear favorite to beat Yale's Jerry Yurow, but the Harvard backup men were, as usual, inadequate. Harvard had to sweep the event. The score stood at Harvard 40 Yale 39 going into the breaststroke with only the freestyle relay to go. The relay was Yale's as the exhausted Crimson freestylers could do no more. Only eight points--a first and a second in the breaststroke--could have the meet...
...Harvard won eight of the eleven events, five of them in record time. The superstars had come off the bench or out of the water again and again to stem the tide of Yale's reserves. Kaufmann swam in three individual events, Pringle in three, and Freestyler Bill Zentgraf in two. Between the three they accounted for five of Harvard's eight victories and 30 of Harvard's 48 points. It was a story of good coaching and individual efforts. Time and again Bill Brooks' delicate distribution of his tired stars foiled Moriarity. Yale saved too many of its stars...