Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hottest back on the Dartmouth team is sophomore Johnny Clayton, ex-Phillips Andover player, who is quarterback in the Indian T-formation. The young man has more poise than a $25-hour Conover model, handles the ball a magician, and passes the way no sophomore should. There are many be talented backs--ones like Joe Sullivan, who played all of Dartmouth's a major games last year, missing only minutes during the season. Hal Fitts runs too fast, and another sophomore, Gil Mueller, is supposed to make debut tomorrow in the Stadium...
Oliver Cromwell, pretty much of an all-out player himself in his day, looked like a man about ready for permanent retirement. The Old Roundhead had been for 287 years on the same old pikestaff (where it had been placed for exhibition when Cromweli's body was exhumed, hanged and beheaded after Charles II's restoration). In a remarkable state of preservation, complete to a wart over the right eye, it was brought out of the bedroom chest of Canon Horace Ricardo Wilkinson in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, for a brief public appearance...
...John, a boy from Arkansas, retired the first three Cleveland Indians in order. Whatever hopes the underdog Boston Braves had of winning the first World Series game were pinned on his strong right arm. At $35,000 a year, he was the National League's highest paid player...
Then Bob Feller, carrying no tobacco but more dough (the American League's highest paid player, at $87,000), strode stiff-legged to the mound. At 29, Fireball Bob, like Sain, was pitching his first World Series game. Down went the first three Boston Braves in order...
...week will be as good a time as any to have a thorough grasp on the basic elements of the game. Army carries the two-platoon system to its logical extremity, where the defensive unit is rumored to be ignorant of offensive assignments, and vice-versa. But what each player does know he puts into effect with depressing finality. In other words Valpey operates on the principle of kill or be killed...