Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, each of the different schools has published its own brochure, describing in detail the life history of every player who might conceiveably play in a game. These, of course, are in addition to the daily releases sent daily to newspapers...
Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr. '52, former Harvard hockey player, was named the new coach of the Freshman hockey team yesterday by Thomas D. Bolles, director of Athletics...
Duffy's is the only banter. There is no skylarking; this is grim business. Almost every player wears a reminder of just how rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...
...dummies, working in units of four, driving ahead, backpedaling and driving again with high-stepping precision. A pair of "scouting teams'' run opponents' plays at linemen, lashed by the snarling criticism of Assistant Coach Lou Agase, onetime All-Big Ten tackle from Illinois. "The Animal," the players call Agase, though off the field he is the mildest of men. End Coach Bob Devaney, a relatively soft-spoken taskmaster from Alma (Mich.) College, works patiently with backs practicing pass defense. Eyes flitting from side to side like a bingo player handling three cards, Halfback Red Kowalczyk backpedals frantically...
...reason is that records are cheaper ($1.98 to $3.98 for a long-player v. $5.95 in 1954) and technically better than ever, are being played on phonographs that are cheaper (less than $100 for a hifi) and better than ever...