Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once you get back of those two, you're in a woodpile. After Garland's departure Friday, Harlow jumped six men into the Varsity locker room and invited them to scramble for jobs. With no results of the scramble available as yet, the outlook still seems muddled. Big Tom Fell, veteran of three years of college and naval football, seems to have the inside track at the moment, but he's not more than a step ahead of 200-pound George Hauptfuhrer, Willard McDaniel, Bob Kennedy (son of Ambassador Joe,) 1942 letterman Len Cummings, and Walt Coulson, 1944 star...
Assignments for the afternoon will be given out at the morning meeting by the Sophomore managers. Freshmen will be assigned to one of the three fields--Varsity, Junior Varsity, or Freshman--or they may be assigned to the locker room or to the H.A.A. office. Rotation of the jobs each week affords general experience to all candidates and an opportunity to meet all the people on the stage and behind the scenes in Harvard football...
...beat out fuzzy-cheeked Kirby Higbe (now the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitching mainstay). A few years later in Charlotte, N.C. 17-year-old Hal Newhouser (now the Detroit Tigers' 23-game winner, and the American League's most valuable player in 1944 and 1945) wept in the locker room after losing a big game. About 275 big leaguers, one in five, have been Legion alumni...
...sewed up the American League pennant in the first six weeks. When he ignored the jeers of the fans, they gradually turned to cheers. But he still had enough of his prewar aloofness not to tip his hat to the customers, sometimes hung around the locker-room for three hours after the game to avoid hero-worshippers. Williams had only one trouble: he seemed to get musclebound against the second-place New York Yankees. He had yet to make a hit this year in Yankee Stadium...
Jack Kramer, one of Southern California's innumerable gifts to tennis, sipped his tea and said: "Say, this stuff isn't bad." He was impressed, too, by the de luxe valet service in the locker room and the assemblage of 129 stars from 22 nations. It was Wimbledon's first All-England championship jamboree since 1939, and the only cloud in Kramer's sky was a blister the size of a quarter on his playing hand...