Word: team
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman baseball team has hit poorly against good pitching, and against poor pitching they have hit well. Against good hitting their pitching has looked poor, and against poor hitting their pitching has looked good...
...rest of the team is still in a state of flux. Al Switzer and Charlie Cabot have come back into the competition for first base and shortstop, after being beaten out by Tim Wise and Henry Young early in the season...
...morning mail, which traditionally brings to sports desks a series of dull publicity releases, dropped a horrifying little document at 14 Plympton St. the other morning. It was entitled, "Preliminary Prospectus, 1949 Stanford University Football Team." Running to six closely written pages, this report painted a picture of the Crimson's first 1949 opponent which was matched only by the ghastly verbal report delivered by Art Valpey at the football luncheon Monday...
...list of lettermen lost by graduation. It is a short list, including two firststringers and only six other squad members. This seems more than overbalanced by 25 (twenty-five) returning lettermen from 1948, two lettermen from 1947, seven non-lettermen from last fall, 20 "leading" candidates from the freshman team, and "some other candidates (8)," a category including four transfers, two freshmen from 1947, a member of last season's B squad, and a non-letterman varsity player...
...phrases--"We're lucky to be playing them first. Our chances of winning so early in the season will depend on experience and organization. They've got better personnel than we do." What Art implied was that later in the schedule we probably couldn't touch them; if his team is up for its opener, we might come through...