Word: runner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thursday, coach Norm Shepard had remarked significantly that though the team had been hitting extremely well during the year, it still "lacked hits at the crucial times when men were on base." Shepard's philosophy on winning is somehow to get a runner on first base and then sacrifice him to second, where he can come home on a single...
With one out and the bases loaded in the top of the seventh, third baseman Mike Drummey stopped a hard ground ball to his left, tagged the runner from second and threw to Marc Holden completing the double play. Twice Yarbro pitched himself out of similar situations by striking out the last batter in the inning...
...English Department has announced winners of the annual poetry contest sponsored by the American Academy of Poets. Jonathan Aldrich '59 has received the $100 first prize from the Academy, while Arthur Freeman '59 is runner-up. William L. Coakley '59, Thomas B. Weisbuch '61, and Donald T. Wesling '60 received Honorable Mention...
...came back to take the two-mile, leaving Cadet Dick Greene far behind and setting a new Harvard and Shea Stadium record of 9:08.5. Benjamin's mark was nearly 13 seconds faster than Pete Reider's former University standard, and it establishes him as perhaps the leading distance runner in this part of the country...
...single in the first inning. Johnson's only other moment of weakness came in the sixth, when he walked the first two men. A stroke of bad luck filled the bases when, on a ground ball, Harrington's peg to second arrived just too late to force the runner. A fielder's choice and a sacrifice fly then brought in two runs...