Catamounts Head to Middlebury for Season Finale
Bennington Catamounts travel to Middlebury with a winless mark to face the Tigers in a key late season clash. Burr and Burton meets Woodstock away in the other Friday games, while Rutland and Mt. St. Joseph play their annual derby. The Bennington Catholic Hartford game is canceled despite Sabers interest.
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Mt. St. Joseph
Bennington High Boosts Junior High Football Program
Bennington High School hosts its first junior high football season with a growing turnout of 28 to 30 seventh and eighth graders practicing at Alumni Field under coach Hugh Perkins. The full dress scrimmage today closes the campaign, as the program aims to build fundamentals for future varsity players and echoes Brattleboro’s long running model that feeds the top team.
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Alumni Field
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Tion
Reeves
Brattleboro
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Bratt
Varsity Cats
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ECHS
Hughes
Al's Alley Bowling Tips and Scores Roundup
A coaching note for young bowlers stresses proper first step ball release and shoulder alignment. Sunday November 21 hosts a scotch double turkey shoot with 1 pm 2:30 pm and 4:00 pm squad times and a handicap based on 75 percent of the difference between averages. Local league highlights include Leo Bentley 228 triple in the Men’s City League and Ben Cummings 235 single with Rusty Dunham 624 triple in Garage League.
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Leo Bentley
Ben Cummings
Rusty Dunham
Monument
Frank Hegel
The
County Bank
Gerry Finnegan
Milt Goffin
Wynne Beebe
Pownal Valley
the Villager
Gladstone’s
Bill Kennedy
Gerry Marsha
John Barber
Cele Short
Marty Moore
Peg Ray
Marble Valley Standings Update for Fair Haven and Others
Marble Valley standings show Fair Haven, West Rutland, BBS, Poultney, Woodstock with records 5, 2, 1-6, illustrating a compact league table and current form across the five teams.
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Rutland
BBS
Poultney
Woodstock
Baseball Executives Back Minors Reform Push
Twenty major league general managers wrapped up their annual Palm Springs meeting vowing to build a stronger minor league system with firmer financial backing. Ed Short of the Chicago White Sox called the session very interesting and said consensus favored securing a firmer organizational and financial base for the minors.
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Chicago White Sox
Joe Black on modern pitching smarter despite smaller size
CHICAGO UPI Joe Black once a big fireballer recalls era of hard throwers. He says today’s pitchers are smaller yet smarter with more pitches and better spot control. Black notes current stars like Koufax and peers’ salaries, later teaching and now a Greyhound executive.
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Don) Newcombe
Ralph) Branca
Ben) Wade
Sandy Koufax
Morgan State College
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Washington Senators
Plainfield
N.J
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Lyn Bourne
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Green Mountain League
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Sam’s Gulf
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Fienberg’s Store
Phil’s Electric
Manchester
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Globe Union
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Mon, Roofing
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William Hart
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