Word: player
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Chester J. Boulris '60 was presented the Frederick Crocker Award--unofficially the football team's most valuable player award--at the annual team dinner held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. The trophy is given to the letterman who, in the opinion of his teammates, "possesses initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness...
Without any protective equipment except heavy shoes and shin-guards, the players are seen as individuals. A really big man, like varsity captain Lanny Keyes, looks big. A colorful player like inside John Mudd can be distinguished by the bandana he wears around his fore-head and his unruly mop of hair. If someone is playing with an injury, as, for instance, right half Charlie Steele was during the last two contests of the season, the signs of his ailment are in plain sight. And when two speeding performers collide, the impact, undampened by any protective material, is felt...
...lost on the crowd, since the Lions fielded one of the most multilingual elevens ever seen here. The Crimson's Mudd started the byplay by remarking, "Those Columbia boys are pretty rough. They're from New York City." After a few crunching collisions around the Columbia goal, a Lion player countered, "Gee, fellows. He's a Hahvuhd man." Things were pretty rough for a while...
After the election, coach John Yovicsin emphasized that Lenzner has progressed rapidly since last year. He praised the new captain's "love to play," which he termed "a good trait in any ball player," and he described Lenzner as a "mature player, who has just finished a fine year...
...Scrappy, chaw-jawed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, whose slick fielding (.988) and slap-hitting (.306; two home runs, 149 singles) led the Chicago White Sox to their first pennant in 40 years, won the American League's most-valuable-player award of the Baseball Writers' Association. The National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever...