Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the Stretch...
With Bender and Captain Howie Houston running in their regular positions, Valpey had his entire first string line back, with the exception of left end Stretch Mazzone. Mazzone, still limping slightly, participated in dummy sessions but Fred Havreby took over for the contact part. Mazzone's status as far as action against Army goes is uncertain...
...injury list, a disquieting factor in Harvard's football picture all season, is still indefinite. Howie Houston and John Coan returned Saturday for oneway service and came through without further damage; but Chief Bender, Stretch Mazzone, Hal Moflie, and Jim Kenary are still doubtful quantities...
...Dynamite. The trouble reached to other rebellious patches of John L. Lewis' empire as picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
...final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...