Word: lopata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent end play brought Yale the Ivy League championship this afternoon in the stadium as the Elis defeated Harvard for the 42nd time. Dean Loucks directed the Eli attack expertly, calling on Al Ward, Dennis McGill, and Steve Ackerman for hard rushing, while ends Vern Loucks and Paul Lopata excelled on offense and defense...
Olivar has four ends, for instance, who would be outstanding for Harvard. His best end is all-Ivy Paul Lopata, a 6-2 senior who has caught 12 passes so far, including one TD, but his true value is his vicious blocking and tackling. Harvard doesn't run the ends much, but if it did, it would have much trouble, not only from Lopata, but also from his partner, Mike Cavallon, 6-4 junior who has edged Vern Loucks out of the starting lineup. Besides these three ends-Lopata, Cavallon and Loucks-Olivar has a very fast receiver in John...
...curve snapped wickedly off the corners of the plate, his fast ball boomed into the catcher's mitt, and his sneaky change-up gave the batters fits. For six innings he had a no-hitter. Then Philadelphia First Baseman Marv Blaylock blooped a single. Catcher Stan Lopata backed it up with a home run. But the Dodgers ran it out, 5-2, and Big Newk had the best record in the majors (18-5). He had run up 39⅔ scoreless innings (6⅔ behind Giant Carl Hubbell's National League record), was riding a nine-game winning...
Last year, in fact, from the All-Star game to Labor Day, the Phillies were perhaps the best in the National League. Then Third Baseman Willie ("Puddin-head") Jones was hurt, First Baseman Stan Lopata was beaned, and the team faltered. "You look back on a season," says Roberts, "and you see two or three games, here and there, that if you'd won might have made the difference...
Those named to the first Ivy team included: Ends, Stanley Intihar (Cornell) and Paul Lopata (Yale); Tackles, James McGuinness (Brown) and Orville Tice (Harvard); Guards, Fred Bucci (Columbia) and William Meigs (Harvard); Center, John Owseichik (Yale); Backs, Claude Benham (Columbia) William DeGraaf (Cornell), Dennis McGill (Yale), and Richard Martin (Princeton...