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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three men will be brought up from the Jayvees for the game, chosen according to Harlow's formula that honest effort deserves its reward. They are Robert M. Burnett '39, Richard P. Hedblom '39, and Howard J. Lewenstein '38. James B. Hallett '37, Varsity fourth-string center, has decided to give up football in order to devote more time to his studies
...strangers troop away across the plains and Boom's burghers come out to face their wives. The Mayor's wife makes a generous speech giving him the credit for saving the town from the horrors of a siege. He notices around her neck a magnificent new string of pearls...
...Louie was performing. Yankee scouts spotted him when he was still in college. On June 1, 1925, he replaced Walter Pipp at first base. From then through last week's games, Gehrig has not been out of the Yankee lineup for a single day. When he started a string of consecutive games played which is now almost 500 more than any other ever compiled by a major-league baseballer, crossword puzzles were beginning to catch on, Jack Dempsey was world's heavyweight champion, Calvin Coolidge was President and Manhattan's Jimmy Walker was still a State Senator...
From time to time, the Gehrig string has come close to breaking. He has appeared on innumerable occasions while suffering from colds, headaches, broken fingers and minor ailments, always without noticeable detriment to his play. Practically immune to the normal wear and tear of big-league baseball, Gehrig has only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy...
...victories have been, almost without exception, against the best pitchers in the league. In most of them his teammates made less than five runs. All 16 were achieved in the thick of an uphill fight to win the Pennant. The ten victories which preceded Hubbell's string of 16 were of the same class. The half dozen games in which he was defeated, he lost, with two exceptions, by margins of only one run and without allowing his opponents to score more than three...