Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specifically, the Councils request that football players be allowed to take part in the East-West and North-South football games, both charity affairs. This is a sound proposal, and one which the League should adopt. The participation of a few scattered football players in a game during Christmas vacation will not appreciably increase emphasis on the sport in the Ivy institutions. And since these particular games require the player's time only during vacations, they would not detract from class time...
...What you holding?" demanded Sammy. "Four deuces," whispered the player...
...whose plight uncovers compassion in Bang the Drum Slowly is Catcher Bruce Pearson. He is a baseball and football tramp. His near illiteracy was no handicap at a Southern university, but with the Mammoths, one of the New York big league teams, he is strictly a marginal player: a positive handicap to the pitcher, endowed only with a real passion for pasting the ball. Next to visiting prostitutes, Bruce's favorite off-diamond pastime is sitting at hotel windows and spitting into the street. What fascinates Bruce is the fact that, when spitting from on high...
...other quarter-final round encounters, Bacon defeated Roger Cortesi, seventh varsity player, 3 to 0, and Heckscher topped fifth-seeded Charles Symington, 3 to 1. In the tournament's closest match, Hamm defeated Larry Sears, number eight varsity...
...Sports Illustrated" has called Lyman a "brilliant but uneven player who has a disconcerting habit of jumping up after he has made a move, as though he had to catch a train." He comes from a Dorchester family that is famous for defeating world masters when they come to Boston on tour...