Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lettermen are back but they saw only very limited action last season because Little stuck almost exclusively to his first string eleven. There will be five sophomores on tomorrow's offensive lineup and five more on the defensive brigade...
Although the varsity eleven will be at Baker Field, the local area won't be entirely devoid of Crimson action tomorrow. Five miles away at Medford, Bruce Munro's soccer team will open its 1949 season against Tufts...
Brooklyn, which as a rule has trouble finishing a game in less than three hours, was faced with the bizarre problem of starting a second game at 3:42 and trying to sneak in five innings before rain and darkness reduced the playing field to a London for scene. Had the Flock lost, it would have been the first time a game was lost by three minutes. Apparently it really started pouring immediately after the fifth inning, for a seeing eye dog from plate umpire Al Barlick reported to the press box with the intelligence that the game was hereby...
...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...
Injuries here and a good team at Columbia don't make a happy picture for the next five days. But there seems to be no mental hangover at all from the transcontinental headache--and Art Valpey is still going on his policy of last year, as restated last night: "We played Stanford last Saturday. We play one this Saturday, and next Saturday, and every week after that--one at a time...