Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball player after Uncle Robbie's happy heart. In spring training at Daytona Beach. Fla. in 1916. Casey helped talk the Dodger manager into trying to catch a baseball dropped from one of those new-fangled flying machines. Robbie waited confidently on the beach, mitt poised, unaware that Casey had substituted a grapefruit for the ball...
Perhaps one player's prestige might be heightened by more frequent use; Jordan's justifiable concern, however, is not with building reputations, but with winning football games...
...highly paid. The American universities profit through this practice alone fifty million dollars in one transitory season. These modern gladiators receive on the basis of their brutal loutish swindling, a scholarship plus a bonus which averages fifty dollars for each game. Indeed, on close examination, no other type of player may be seen on the thousands of professional teams participating in this wild, catch-as-catch-can style of game...
There are, in fact, no Amateur Football Teams, apart from those of boisterous schoolboys. Of the "Footballer", humorist Al Capp says "The head of the football player is only half as great as that of the average man, but this size is quite large enough, for it's all the young man needs to carry a crew cut and helmet...
...opening Crimson soccer game, scheduled for this Saturday at Amherst, has been cancelled because of the Polio situation there. Three students, including at least one soccer player, have contracted polio in the last three weeks...