Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offense; blossomed this year on defense, piled up end sweeps, helped his team hold Army's famed halfbacks Anderson and Dawkins to 19 yds. rushing in 14 carries. The pros like him, but feel he must add a good deal of weight to withstand the inevitable pounding a player gets in the big time...
...rare that a good college team will keep the same stars for two consecutive seasons, with graduation providing an ever-present physical limit to a player's eligibility. This year's varsity swimmng team, however, will have ten returning lettermen and will lose no one who led last year's squad to a sixth place finish in the NCAA championships...
...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.
...greatest fear is that he might "stay on the road along which everything has already been said.'' In an effort to avoid that fate, he has produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto...
Died. Mort Cooper, 45, right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-45) who won more than 20 games in the seasons of 1942 (National League Most Valuable Player), 1943 and 1944 pitching to his brother, Catcher Walker Cooper, as the Cardinals won three pennants and two World Series; of cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by a staphylococcal infection; in Little Rock...