Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELIOT: The Elephants slumped badly in football last year after several strong seasons, but the outlook this fall is brighter. Senior Phil Price and juniors Stan Freedman and Mac Hyde bolster a strong backfield while Dave Sirota, Pete Beak, and Don Breed are also among the returning players from last year's seventh place eleven...
...flat, hard course will favor Crimson speedsters Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, Al Wills, and Phil Williams...
Also finishing within the top ten for the varsity were Dave McLean, Art Wills, Ralph Perry, Ken Wilson, and Phil Williams. The first five Crimson runners finished within one minute of each other, which points out the great strength lying behind the squad. Five men are almost sure-fire low point-getters...
...roughest melee the American League had seen in years. And Casey came home with a team full of trouble. Few teams win a pennant without a first-class shortstop to tighten up their infield, and veteran Phil Rizzuto was five years past his prime, a step too slow in the field, a little too tired to play regularly. Jerry Coleman, who could have filled in, broke his collarbone April 22 and was out for three months. No sooner was he back when he was beaned and bench-ridden again. Often, Casey's pitching was pitiful...
...other fella [Billy Martin] comes out of the Army but he don't look at big-league pitching and I put him at short, but the Little Old Man [Phil Rizzuto] comes up with a good job for me and I shift the second baseman [McDougald] to third and put the Army guy [Martin] where he belongs, on second with the Old Man [Rizzuto] back on short and we click pretty good...