Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who stayed away missed seeing the three "big names" flop. Down & out in the first round went favored Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan, who had beaten the pros several times. Next day finished off the other two: Bud Ward, winner of the last U.S. Amateur in 1941, and out-of-practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with...
...came from 32,000 throats at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Nothing quite like it had been heard in a big-league ballpark since Connie Mack picked gimpy-armed Howard Ehmke to pitch (and win) the first game of the 1929 World Series. The announcer said that Ralph Branca, winner of just one game all season, would be the Dodger pitcher in the final do-or-die series with the St. Louis Cardinals...
Wally Flynn, 1942 Varsity letter-winner as a Freshman, will hold down one of the wings, with newcomer Johnny Florentino at the other wing. Flynn is one of the smoothest operators on the field, and in particular he helps to continue what has the making of a Harvard football: a kicking end. Wally's boots are one of the joys of practice--and the look to be one of Harvard's gametime joys as well. Florentine has never played any college football, but he was an all-scholastic center at Boston College in 1943 and was on the high-scoring...
Beginning September 25, the competition will end Saturday, November 9, after the Dartmouth game. The winner will be in complete charge of the following two weeks of preparation for the Freshman game with Yale. He will receive the major football numerals as well as the honor of the position gained. Assisting the winner will be the second and third men in the competition...
...first three men in the Freshman competition will be joined by two or three of the top-ranking candidates, and will take part in the Sophomore competition in the fall of 1947. The winner of this competition will become Varsity football manager the following year and will receive his major "H". The men placing second and third will become Junior Varsity and Freshman managers respectively and will receive the minor football...