Word: preseason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Performances ran generally poor, as compared with times of last year's preseason trials, although several varsity and freshman times augured well for later in the season...
...Thorndike suggested compulsory preseason physical examinations, thorough training and practice, and complete medical attention as methods of reducing athletic injuries...
...other co-captain, six foot, 190-lb. fullback Normie Wright, presents an equally formidable problem. Second high scorer last year, he was named to the All New England team, and he has already been mentioned in several preseason All New England and Little All America polls. He rates as the outstanding fullback ever to play for Tufts...
...they knew in advance that they could not repeat last year's upset of the Cleveland Browns, the College All-Stars loafed through the 23rd annual preseason charity football game and took an embarrassing 26-0 pasting from the pro champions. High scorer: Cleveland's Lou ("The Toe") Groza, who booted four field goals and two points after touchdown...
...luck has dogged the sports career of U.S. Army Private Willie J. Williams, 24, a powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team...