Word: pre-season
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...Crimson basketball team has perhaps the toughest assignment, for it must readjust its sights from bluebooks to backboards in time to meet Yale at New Haven. The Elis have not measured up to pre-season expectations so far, but must still be awarded the favorite's role by reason of home-court advantage, if no other...
...Jimmy Brown, smear Quarterbacks Milt Plum and Jim Ninowski. So thoroughly stifled was the Cleveland offense that the Giants needed little attack of their own, rolled to a decisive 10-0 victory which gave them the Eastern Conference Championship. A team with little individual brilliance and rated nowhere by pre-season dopesters, the Giants have won all the big ones, will meet the Western Champion Baltimore Colts next week for the National Football League title...
...Fundamentals. He started slowly, worked on fundamentals all spring, did not even introduce his offense (split-T with variations that include a double wing belly series) until pre-season practice started in August. Says he: "I had to create a happy atmosphere. The game should be fun-relaxed, happy, undrudge-like. We don't berate the boys for failures. There are no horsewhips around here...
...Ohio State (4-0)-finally living up to pre-season billing after three so-so victories, pounded Indiana...
...what may prove to be the Crimson's toughest game of the year, the varsity soccer team will meet a powerful Cornell squad this afternoon at Ithaca. The Big Red, pre-season favorites to lead the Ivy League this year, rate as slight favorites in today's game...