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Word: tossing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harpel, whose toss of 177 feet, 51/2 inches against Yale was the fifth best in the country this year, may travel to Berkeley, Calif., along with quarter-miler Dick Wharton, for the NCAA meet, June 16. Siler, who will be graduated June 14, cannot make the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Individual Track | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

Siler won the discus by a toss of 160 feet, 5 1/2 inches. In the shot put Siler pushed the ball 48 feet, 2 2/3 inches, eight feet short of Bantum's winning effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Siler Wins IC4A Discus Throw | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...stubborn refusal to toss beanballs, Roberts resembles the late great Walter Johnson of the lackluster Washington Senators. The "Big Train" was a self-confident competitor who occasionally went so far as to serve up fat ones to hitters suffering from nerve-racking slumps. But throwing at a batter was unthinkable. Johnson never even waited for umpires to discard scuffed balls; as soon as he saw one he tossed it aside, for fear it might force him to throw his fast one wild and injure the man at the plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Whole Story of Pitching | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Hurley unleashed his best toss of the season in the javelin to place second, preventing an incipient Yale sweep...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Track Team Humbles Elis, 77-63 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Favored Yale meets the third-seeded Crimson varsity heavyweight crew, and Princeton faces the varsity 150's in a toss-up at the E.A.R.C. Sprints at Washington, D.C. and Princeton, New Jersey, tomorrow...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Yale Favored as Crimson Crew Rows in EARC Race Tomorrow | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

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