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Word: tryout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dallas May Sign Harvard's Brooks | 3/7/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Skater Ruled Ineligible | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Talent Without Tinsel | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patriots Select Leo and Davis In Professional Football Draft | 3/16/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Dandy Dominican | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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