Word: gophering
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...manager now; he starts sentences with "I may not be much of a manager, but . . ." They have a .189 hitter in the starting lineup (not even the Mets can match that), and they have a bullpen full of people who are reasonably skilled in the difficult art of throwing gopher balls. It is a slow process, but the Yankees are learning how to lose. So far this season, they have already dropped six out of ten to the sixth-place Boston Red Sox, three out of seven to the last-place Kansas City Athletics-one by the score...
Early in the third period Minnesota's captain scored the last Gopher goal. Forward Treadwell, assisted by Baldy Smith and Crimson's fourth score 4 minutes later. With less than three minutes left. Minnesota pulled their goalie, and six desperate Gophers moved in on Harvard goalie Brandy Sweitzer who withstood the storm, making one brilliant save...
...leading Nixon 45% to 42%, Brown seemed confident that he already had two strikes on Nixon. But as they say, the game is never over until the last man is out-and, before November, Brown will have plenty of opportunity to live up to his reputation as a gopher-ball pitcher...
Trumpets pealing and trombones blaring, New York City's Department of Sanitation band oompahed into an ear-shattering rendition of the University of Minnesota's fight song-The Minnesota Rouser. On the speakers' platform, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Lothrop Freeman, 43, a Gopher alumnus (B.A. and LL.D.) and former Governor of Minnesota, perked an ear to the air, broke off his conversation with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, and hustled over to the band. "Thanks, boys," cried Freeman. "I haven't heard that in quite a while." Bandleader John Celebre, still brandishing...
...lost to undefeated Minnesota, 7 to 2, Dec. 29 before 5,599 fans at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. Thereafter, the Cirmson played more encouraging hockey. The next evening in Minneapolis the vi-efforts led most of the way until a third-period rally won for the Gophers, 4 to 3. Coach Cooney Weiland sent his players deep into the Minnesota and for plenty of fore checking and constant harassment of the Gopher skaters...