Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scout from the Broncos told me that the '49ers would use me for cannon fodder in the tryout camp," Crimson offensive tackle Bob Brooks said yesterday...
...League has ruled Cornell hockey player Bob McGuinn ineligible for the remainder of the season because the junior center signed a tryout agreement with a pro team during his senior year in high school...
Winging & Plinking. That led to Any Wednesday, which had a tryout so calamitous that before the play opened it went through one leading man (Michael Rennie), five directors and 13 endings-the 13th on opening night. The script was so unpromising that it took five coproducers to cajole in the $100,000 nut. As it turned out, Any Wednesday came in on rubber heels-a Broadway term describing a sleeper smash that confounds the handicappers...
...Pete Hall '62 was the last Harvard footballer to tryout for a professional team. He signed with the Patriots as a free agent but was cut before the season began...
Together with other Escogido prospects of 1958, Marichal was flown to Sanford, Fla., for a tryout with the Giants. There, either because he really was impressive, or because he was already into them for $500, the Giants decided to keep him in the organization. Off he went to the Michigan City White Caps in the Class D Midwest League-where he led the league in innings pitched (245), victories (21;) and earned-run average (1.87). In 1959, he moved up to Springfield in the Class A Eastern League. There he invented his now famous high kick and taught himself...