Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guard Ted Metropoulos, an outstanding player in last week's Corsell game, may be misuing from the starting lineup when the varsity meets Columbia on the Lions' Baker Field tomorrow...
Heading the list was Cornell's Tom Itin, the center who was knocked cold in the second quarter of the game but "refused to come out." Itin was a jayvee player last year...
Most Valuable Player. Just as he carefully organized the team and set up a system, President Eisenhower upgraded the vice-presidency and prepared Richard Nixon to run the team if and when it became necessary for him to do so. He expressed his philosophy about the vice-presidency at a news conference last May: "I personally believe the Vice President of the United States should never be a nonentity. I believe he should be used. I believe he should have a very useful job. And I think that ours has. Ours has worked as hard as any man I know...
Even closer to the midstream of popular U.S. taste was Long Islander William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), who once noted in hsi diary: "I must paint such pictures as speak at once to the spectator . . . that will be understood in an instant." In paintings such as Banjo Player (opposite), Mount proved he knew his audience. Infused today with the nostalgic glow of yesteryear, they are kept just this side of sentimentalism by Mount's careful craftsmanship and observant eye. In their quiet way, they look good for many years to come...
...that Jordan was deprecating his player's common sense. They knew as well as he that optimistic press releases and nine touchdowns in an opening game against fair opposition don't necessarily win football games...