Word: lineup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sportswriters the country over have have their eye on the team that has stopped four opponents for almost no gain and has reeled off yardage with devastating precision. Holy Cross, with a host of Orange Bowl veterans in the lineup and a 200-pound line to open the holes, is too good a team to stay in the loss column of the Sunday papers forever, and rooters from Cambridge to Worcester consider it possible that it may break loose tomorrow. There is no team the Purple would rather break loose against than Harvard...
...Varsity will not be at full strength for Saturday's game, and Mac Expects to have to juggle his lineup all through the contest in order to keep the team running at full efficiency. Besides the less of al Merck, first-string fullback, he will also have to get along without the services of his starting right wing, Jocko smith, who is sidelined with what the doctors cryptically call an injured...
...hour scrimmage featured Varsity soccer practice at the Business School Field yesterday with Coach James MacDonald making numerous switches in his lineup to get the best combination possible...
...only change in the "A" team lineup was the elevation of Frank Miklos to quarterback, but the battle for that spot is still not decided, and Henry Goethals may answer the opening whistle against Holy Cross. Another indefinite post is that of left guard, with Nick Rodis, Bob Drennan and Sid Smith in the running for first team status...
Nikolai V. Novikov, owlish Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., arriving from Paris at LaGuardia Field, was involved in a border incident with New York City customs and immigration men. He was taken to the crowded Public Health Room for the routine quarantine and immigration lineup, was questioned, examined, and cross-examined as if he were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration...