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Yale ruggers in the past have mostly been football players. Carrying on in this tradition is varsity star Ed Senay, who will play backfield. Eli captain will he Frank Mueller, and two more stars on his team will be Pete Harrison and Don Irwin. Irwin is a former Argentine International, and it was mainly his fine looking that helped the Elis top the Brenda Rugby League last Easter...
They set the stage just right, entering the ninth inning behind, 4 to 1, getting one run across, standing Alvin Dark on third (in place of Don Mueller, who injured himself reaching that position the last time) and Whitey Lockman on second. Bobby Thomson was supposed to let one strike go by and hit the next pitch into the left field seats. But Bob Kuzava failed to take the role of Ralph Branca seriously. His first pitch was a ball, and Bob Thomson couldn't find his place. With appalling inability to ad lib, Thomson lifted a fly to left...
Third string catcher Sal Yvars, the only Giant who had not yet appeared in the series (not counting Mueller), walked nervously in from the bullpen. He dumped the first pitch into the unpatrolled sector behind second base...
...come to the biggest difference between the New York teams. Mueller, whose ability to splash singles into holes had earned him the nickname of "Mandrake the Magician," was replaced by a third-baseman, a pitcher-outfielder-failure, and two pinch-hitters. These substitutes made two hits in twenty tries and three errors in ten tries...
...last of the ninth inning the Giants were trailing, 4 to 1. Alvin Dark singled off big Don Newcombe, and so did Mueller, sending Dark to third. Monte Irvin, leading hiter on the Giant squad, popped out, but Whitey Lockman doubled to score Dark and put the tying run on bose...