Word: preseasonitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last season the Crimson won the league championship with an 8-1 record, its only loss a 5-0 shutout by the Cadets. Preseason predictions had cited Harvard and Army as the top contenders once again, but the Crimson showed little titlist form in its season-opening loss to Penn, 6-3 and Army has dropped two one-run decisions...
Ranked twelfth in the nation by a preseason poll, Coach Park's team will tour Southern colleges and minor league teams over the spring vacation. With a myriad of outstanding batters, Park wants to play as many games as possible and experiment with different players at most positions...
...Literate, funny, warm and tender" was Producer Hal Kanter's unblushing preseason review of his new NBC show Julia, the first TV series to focus on a Negro family. "Julia will be an opportunity to show the world how black people live," chimed in Diahann Carroll, late of Broadway (No Strings) and Hollywood (Hurry Sundown), who plays the title role...
...memorable scene, the plot is actually overlooked, and Paper Lion attains brief beauty as a documentary on pro football. For ten silent minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against...
...Doing a preseason drill, Brian fell the wrong way and fractured a bone in the wrist of his passing hand...