Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time Princeton won a football game on Soldiers Field was back in 1934, when Eddie Casey's gridiron machine succumbed 19 to 0 the autumn before the advent of Dick Harlow. Since then the Tigers have triumphed over the Crimson just once, in 1939 down in New Jersey...
...Dodgers do it? Certainly without elegance. They were held together with baling wire, audacity, speed, and the uncanny strategy of Manager Burt Shotton. His tactic was unvarying: somehow to get through six or seven innings without getting too far behind, and then send for reliable old Relief Pitcher Hugh Casey...
...seventh day, a game didn't seem official without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...
...named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose special talents are steadiness and hustle. In Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stanky, both short of height but long on skill, they have the best keystone combination in the league. The Dodgers also have a special affection for 34-year-old relief pitcher Hugh Casey, who has come onto the hill to save game after game, and is held in higher esteem by his team mates than strong-arm Ralph Branca, the Dodgers' only 20-game winner. And of course there is Dixie Walker, the "Pee-pul's Cherce," who at 36 still...
...Jackson, Tenn., old (73) Locomotive-Fireman Sim T. Webb recalled what Casey Jones really said before he took his "trip into the promised land" in the early morning of April 30, 1900. Casey, highballing south from Durant, Miss, at the throttle of the Illinois Central Railroad's locomotive No. 638, yelled across the cab at Webb: "Oh, Sim! The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight!" The occasion for this reminiscence: the unveiling of a monument on Casey's grave, for 47 years marked only by a wooden cross...