Word: doormats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomers to the varsity. The six above all earned letters last year. Ed Rose, seventh, started out on the team last year, but fell down to the C team. Paul Garrigue is, in Barnaby's eyes, the most improved player on the squad. Last year he was the doormat to the team. Whoever beat him could usually make the team. He was brilliant defensively, but weak on his attack. This year he has picked up a variety of serves and mixes up his volleys with new corner shots. A victory in the eighth position means as much to a team...
...perhaps I am being unreasonable in asking for a change. But I somehow dislike my alma mater being used as a doormat by most of the teams we play. What do you think? Am I wrong? I would appreciate any comment. --Name Withheld by Request
...League Browns, winners of one pennant (1944) in 50 years, have barely kept out of the red. Rival American League teams, including such drawing cards as the New York Yankees, lose money on the trip to St. Louis. Last year, after effervescent Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) bought the doormat Browns, things began to change. Using the showman stunts that brought fans out in droves when he owned the Cleveland Indians, Veeck shot off fire works before games, imported jitterbugs and contortionists, selected grandstand managers to help run the team, handed out free drinks, and even sneaked a midget into...
Buck insisted that while the Crimson would lighten its schedule in the future, the team would continue in the Ivy League, and not as a doormat...
...jayvee football player can be identified by his uniform, which is invariably the dirtiest on the practice field. This is an occupational disease, and stems from the jayvee's function as farm team and doormat for the varsity...