Word: finnegan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lithofold Corp. had some good friends-of-friends. One was ex-RFCer Merl (Mink Coat) Young, who phoned Alexander from Washington that "the Democratic National Committee is interested in this loan." Another was James Finnegan, St. Louis Collector of Internal Revenue and crony of the President. Finnegan added his pleas. Finnegan would generally agree with Alexander that some of Lithofold's business practices were unsound (as Alexander recalled it), "but he would invariably ask, at each meeting, 'How's the loan coming, Charlie...
...probable lineups: VARSITY M.I.T. Corning g. Woodward Bliss or Carman r.d. Pinkham Sedgwick or Burke l.d. Anderson Marshall r.w. Grady or Spalding Kittredge c. Russell Preston (C) l.w. Finnegan...
...senior tackles, Joe Finnegan and Walt Clemens, anchor the line and since they are Hickman's defenders as well as his best offensive men at their positions, they play both ways. Finnegan, a 189-pound New Haven townic, has had hard luck in the form of a broken leg in 1947, and an appendectomy in 1948, but managed to become a regular last fall. Clemens, at 187, was one of the original "Seven Dwarfs" of the 1949 line...
...Yale also has a strong running attack. By the end of the game, Spears, who had been playing both ways all afternoon, could still gain through the first string Princeton defense. The left side of Yale's defensive line seemed weak: Finnegan, the tackle on that side, was being trapped a good deal of the time...
...Although we'll be playing more for the home stands today," Lucey said, "we're going to do the Holy Cross medley by John Finnegan '47 for the visitors and from a Crusader's helmet...