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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southpaw, 15-game winners Eddie Lopat (lost 10) and Tommy Byrne (lost 7) will probably pitch the third and fourth games. Lopat is cagey, Byrne fast, but both are erratic. Lopat was invaluable in the last weeks; Byrne's greatest contribution to the Yankees was in the first ten weeks of the season...
Manager Bert Shotton of Brooklyn had only two first-rate pitchers: Newcombe...
...creation of a fund specifically for General Education is the first separate financial recognition accorded the field. GE was expanded considerably last year, with prospects for making it compulsory for all students in a few years. Several faculty posts, including one professorship were established specifically for instruction...
...first string backfield of Bill Henry, Jim Noonan or Charlie Roche, John White, and Paul Shafer remained unchanged. Carl Bottenfield who has a broken bone in his right hand, worked with Charlie Walsh, Carrol Lowenstein, and Nick Athens but saw considerable action with the number one combination. Wingback Bill Hoaley did some particularly impressive running...
...junior varsity sent a simulated Cornell T attack against the second defense before operations were transplanted to the Cage. For the first defense-setting session, Valpey used Armando Mazzone, Dick Guidera, Kanter, Rosenau, Will Davis, and Dike Hyde in the line, John West and Dave Warden as backers-up, Bottenfield and Shafer as defensive halfbacks, and Noonman and Roche alternating as safety man. This was be revised when the squad get more group work on defenses today...