Word: locker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bags of peanuts in hand, Bing Crosby and three little Crosbys clumped into the dressing room of the spring-training Pittsburgh Pirates. Said Part-Owner (25%) Crosby to Pitcher Kirby Higbe, as he popped a peanut into his mouth: "How's things, Kirby?" With a shudder, a Pirate locker man grabbed Bing just in time to arrest the flight of a second peanut. Bad luck, explained the locker man-eating peanuts in a dressing room...
Election of the 1948 Varsity football captain will be held in the team's locker room in Dillon Field House at 5:40 o'clock this afternoon. Retiring manager John Judkins named 10 returning lettermen yesterday who will be Seniors next fail...
...Locker rooms were quiet after the Blue-bloody contest was called to a halt by doctors. The Big Red cohorts accepted their win as a matter of course, and sat around the training tables quietly after their standard fifth of physiotherapy. (Training is being maintained because of anticipated Post-Season Bowl bids...
Before trooping into the locker room for the election, the Jayvees had dummy scrimmages followed by signal drills, but with Frank Miklos, Bill Fitz and a couple of others now either on the Varsity squad or on lend-lease to it, Chief Boston had to run some of his reserves in the vacated first-string positions...
...from now on they would have to point for every game, for so long as they were unbeaten, every team was pointing for them. Michigan's team was decidedly superstitious about their winning ways. At training table, no one would think of changing his seating order. In the locker room, players remembered which teammate had helped pull their jerseys down over their shoulder pads before the first game of the season, and made sure that the same man did it every game. The squad's biggest superstition: by unspoken agreement, no one ever mentioned the words that everyone...