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...jubilant football squad, with the Yale victory two days old, elected Hank Keohane of Winthrop House and Arlington, Mass., next year's football captain. Center Bob Foster was chosen Most Valuable Player of the season and, rounding out the post-season awards, John Reardon of Kirkland House and Cohasset, Mass., was awarded the Undergraduate Manager's job for the coming year...
There were only four repeaters from last year's squad. They were first baseman Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, outfielder Hank Aaron, left-handed pitcher Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves, and outfielder Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees...
...accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly was a catcher-outfielder, Elston Gene Howard...
Guard Terry Lenzner darted into the Lions' backfield to recover a fumble on the home team's 23 yard line, and three plays later another lineman set up the Crimson's first score. An erratic pass by Ravenel bounced off receiver Hank Keohane's shoulder, and was grabbed on the fly by center Pete Eliades, who ran it to the one foot line. Ravenel scored on a sneak in the next play...
Aging ( 37 ) Lefthander Spahn, an Oklahoma cattle breeder in his spare time and winner of 246 games in a 14-year major-league career, might have been beaten in the opening game if the Yankees had not conspired so efficiently to beat themselves. Hank Bauer led off the first inning with a single, got ignominiously picked off base moments later. In the eighth inning, the same Bauer backed up for a routine line drive, overjumped it to make a double of a sure putout. With this help, Spahn took heart, got stronger and stronger (he retired 14 batters...