Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks. The coach is still in the early stages of experimentation with combinations to fill three gaps in his 1948 boat. However, he has a strong nucleus in five returning veterans of his near-Olympic crew last year: stroke Bill Carwen, Captain Frank Strong, Ted Reynolds, Don Felt, and Mike Scully are all on hand. Several contenders from the Jayvees are in the running for the empty slides...
Following a hot tip we called from a man standing outside of Mike's Club, we best our way down to Mechanics Hall Wednesday afternoon to investigate the possibility of Harvard hounds entered in the Eastern Dog Club annual fish-fry and sawdust exhibition...
...record 8,475 fans who jammed Philadelphia Arena last week seemed more keyed up than Mike Mikan. Their hero was 27-year-old ex-Marine Joe Fulks of the Philadelphia Warriors, who was just 19 points behind Mikan for the scoring lead of the Basketball Association of America. Most Arena-goers were rooting for Joe to overtake and pass Mikan, but it was not the night...
...kept wearing down fresh men sent in to guard him. He gobbled up rebounds from both backboards, made blind passes on the fast break, fed the ball to his teammates from his pivot slot. When the game was over, the Lakers had won a close one (78-76), and Mike Mikan had added 30 more points to his season's total (1,091) while Fulks was picking...
...University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair. His appetite is prodigious. He has occasionally been known to consume a dozen eggs at breakfast, polish off two steaks after a game...