Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery. Ala., for the second year in a row, Mississippi Southern (2,000 students) scored the season's first major football upset by edging out Alabama...
...trickery. All over the country other coaches taught their teams the Warner unbalanced line and the fast-breaking Warner single wingback formation. Pop went right on building winning teams. He went back to Cornell for a few years, later to Pitt, where he had four unbeaten seasons in a row. In the mid-'20s he moved to Stanford, developed such All-America stars as jolting Fullback Ernie Nevers and End Ted Shipkey. Pop continued to try new tactics. In the Rose Bowl in 1925, his team showed a flashy double wingback formation against Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen...
...clinched the National League pennant, and brushed Brooklyn back into a second-place scramble with the Milwaukee Braves. In the Yankee Stadium, the World Champions took two out of three from the league-leading Indians to stay within a long reach of their sixth pennant in a row. But time was running out. Cleveland moved into Baltimore for Labor Day, 4½ games in front...
Front-Running Indians. In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball. Outpaced in the stretch three years in a row, the Indians were now playing the steady, workmanlike baseball of champions. Their first-line pitchers (Wynn, Lemon, Garcia) have turned in some of the best performances of the season. Onetime Fireballer "Rapid" Robert Feller, now grown gracefully ancient (he will be 36 in November), has surprised even himself with a fine 11-2 record. Rookies Ray Narleski and Don Mossi have been fogging their high, hard ones past...
...outhitting such veterans as Woodling and Collins. Now, in the stretch sprint, the Yankees will face teams that have been their cousins all season. If they take up their old, winning ways, professional Yankee haters will begin to worry that Casey Stengel will take his sixth pennant in a row...