Word: preseason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picked by many preseason seers to hang on to their national championship, Louisiana State University's Tigers fumed for the first half as Rice's quick-kicks rocked them back on their heels; but they came back in the second half with sturdy, sprinting All-America Halfback Billy Cannon leading...
...squad has practiced since early March and has been narrowed down from an original 50 candidates. After preseason sessions in Briggs Cage, the team began to take shape after vacation. Since then its performances in practice games have given rise to considerable optimism for the season. The team outscored Cambridge Latin on a rainy and cold Friday one week ago and easily out-played Somerville High School last Tuesday, giving much promise for the future in both games...
Amid signs of recession, paradoxical streaks of prosperity show up. Beauty parlors and landscaping firms are thriving. Car sales are radically down, but boat sales are radically up. Movie attendance is skimpy, but the Tigers report brisk preseason sales of baseball tickets...
...During a preseason workout by the University of Denver's hockey squad in mid-November, a player was hit with a hard body check, went somersaulting through the air. As he came down, the protruding back end of his skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding...
...wildly unpredictable street fight for the National League lead, the Milwaukee Braves were last week's gang to beat. After a shaky start the Braves' pitching staff was beginning to live up to preseason expectations, and from second base old (34) ex-Giant Red Schoendienst was spreading his old pro's confidence to the whole team. But the man mainly responsible for the Braves' surge into first place was a lithe Negro outfielder named Hank Aaron, who is hitting the baseball better and more often than any man in the National League...