Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby Leo muses at the muses who filled the football locker room after last night's last full Varsity practice. The serenade was the Harvard Band's way of boosting, with trumpet and song, the already high spirits of the team that will vanquish Yale...
...massive rush toward Dillon Field House. There band members had gathered and had blocked out a large V in red railroad flares on the turf. The team entered Dillon though the burning victory sign to frenzied cheers and Harvard song. The band followed the team into the locker room and continued to play fight songs for 15 minutes...
Princeton had just annihilated Pennsylvania, 51-0, and the jubilant Tigers were whooping it up in their locker room. Carried away by all that enthusiasm, a halfback shouted, "We're No. 1!" -and suddenly the whole team was chanting: "We're No. 1! We're No. 1!" It took most of a minute for the realization of what they were yelling to sink in. The chanting stopped, and the Tigers grinned sheepishly at each other. No. 1? Princeton? "It's a little sad, actually," sighed one player. "We'll never find out just how good...
...hitter. "He was the tying run," Koufax said later, "so no pitch I threw him got any more than an inch of the plate." The count went to two and two. Rearing back, Koufax threw. Allison swung. Pop! The ball slammed into Catcher Roseboro's mitt. In the locker room, world champions for the third time in seven years, richer by $10,000 per man, the Dodgers showered in champagne and gawked like schoolboys at Sandy Koufax, standing off to one side talking to reporters. "That Koufax," sighed Pitcher Johnny Podres, once a World Series hero himself...
Then begins a long slide down to that part of Davy Jones's locker reserved for murkily motivated seagoing films. The arrival of some American prisoners, including the film's one girl, just weighs the boat down more. There is a lot of whispering and barking orders and dashing around the deck. But the trilling wire of suspense is missing. Zo, zometimes, iss Prando's peautiful aczent...