Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlow called him up and asked him to go to work. On first coming to Cambridge, the Hank Margarita of pro football ran into a slight confusion in the presence of cohorts Henry Lamer, Harold Kopp, and Harry Jacunski and switched to his middle name. Now known almost exclusively as Bob he has fitted into the Crimson pattern of postwar expanding football which began two years ago with the coming of himself, line coach Kopp, and end coach Jacunski, all as assistants to Harlow...
...after seriously considering coming to Harvard, he entered Brown University in Providence. In 1941 and '42 he played varsity football. During those years, the newspapers of the United States began booming the name of Hank Margarita. "I wish had come here instead," says Dick Harlow, in retrospect. "He never beat us, but for two years he certainly scared hell...
First man to hit the finish line for Harvard in the Varsity contest was John Cogan, in third positions. He was followed by Captain Huns, Rosenfeld, fourth and Bill "Atom" Baker, ninth, Hank Wilbur and John Anderson completed the Varsity scoring...
...Mexico-born Ralph Kiner, 24, had done for the seventh-place Pittsburgh Pirates what Hank Greenberg was hired-at a reported salary of nearly $100,000-to do. At 36, and in his first season with the Pirates, Hank was pretty much of a flop, even though Pittsburgh's left-field fence had been brought in closer to help him. But Greenberg bunked with young Kiner on road trips, talked while his protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned...
...baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...