Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore Dick Duback, who has played mostly on defense, ran tailback in the second unit until replaced by Ray. This backfield also had Tom Ossman running fullback, Dave Wardon as wingback, and Phil Isenberg at quarterback...
...Little Phil Rizzuto was short on size, long on determination. He was not much of a hitter, but he taught himself to be the best bunter in the business. As a shortstop, he had none of the easy, fluid grace of the Cardinals' Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down...
While Rizzuto was reveling in his new role as a menace at the plate he was doing pretty well afield too. In one stretch of 59 games he handled 288 consecutive chances without an error, an American League record.* Little Phil was the only man durable enough (and irreplaceable enough) to play in every one of his team's games. More than any other player, he sparked the Yankees to their 1950 World Championship...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, who long ago ate his old Rizzuto words, got another reminder last week of how they tasted going down. Phil Rizzuto, to nobody's surprise, was voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League...
...second backfield were Phil Isenberg at quarterback, Lowenstein at tailback, Tom Ossman at fullback and Wylie and Wardon alternating at wingback. During a short punting drill which followed, Lowenstein did the kicking from tailback...