Word: pre-season
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...very stiff varsity football squad worked out its numerous bumps and bruisen in a light loosening-up practice yesterday afternoon. The session marked the first time since pre-season training that the coaches have resorted to calisthenics...
Veteran fullback Mike Scully will make his season debut, having sat out last week's game to allow his pre-season practice injury an extra week to mend. Scully's appearance at fullback will send Dick Harrop back to his natural position of halfback...
...another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
Captain Jack Donelan has borne out Coach Dolph Samborski's pre-season prediction that he would be the ace of the hurling staff. He has started and finished four games, winning two, losing one, and trying the season opener, 2 to 2, with MIT. Control has been his strong point...
...despairing of quiet, picked up the paper and found himself reading the sports section. Then the Great Thing happened. It was a small headline: "Tribe, Sox Head South for Pre-Season Training." Very quietly he picked up a shattered half-ski and hefted it; cocking his wrists, he saw little white balls, not flakes, bouncing off the left field wall...