| Show I I II Sc kres bes Se t Yanks AT Team of 5 Y I NEW V YORK Jan 5 The ThC New York Yankees baseball club was voted team of oC the year for 1950 in the annual year-end year poll of sports writers and sportscasters by the Associated Press Casey Stengel's Yanks four straight winners over the Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- I delphia Phils in the world series had close competition for the honor Oklahoma's football team upset In the Sugar bowl howl after aHer 31 straight v victories was a n close basketball second Cit City colleges college's grand slam champs were very cry much in the running I With voting Noting 70 O picked the Yanks as the standout team In any sport spoil amateur or professional I Oklahoma drew diew 56 firsts and City 43 ballots It was strictly a three- three learn race with the Phillies a distant distant distant dis dis- tant fourth Points figured on a 3 1 basis gave the Yanks Oklahoma and City Ial Lakes Lakers N Nest ext Then came the ers National Basketball pro champs In fifth place The Cleveland Cleve e Cleeland Cleveland land Browns who ho followed their American All-American conference triumphs with a National football league title were sixth The Detroit Red Wings who beat off the New York Rangers in hockey's Stanley cup finals were seventh Princeton's powerful unbeaten unbeaten unbeaten un un- beaten football club was next followed followed fol fol- followed lowed by the tricky Harlem Hailem Globetrotters Globetrotters Globetrotters Globe Globe- trotters basketball team Tennessee the Cotton bowl wInner winner winner win wIn- ner over o Texas was tenth on the list of 1950 standouts Last years year's winner Notre Dame already has been voted the most disappointing team of 1950 It seems to be a jinx jinx The 19 18 champs Cleveland Indians were the 1949 flops Clops Despite Stengel's success in 1919 1949 with a crippled club the Yanks were picked to run behind the favored Boston Red Sox In the 1950 American league race Anticlimax Although Joe Di DiMaggio slumped in and was benched and Tommy Henrich was unable to play regularly the Yanks came cameon on strong to nip the Detroit Ti Tigers ers ersin in the stretch Phil Rizzuto's brilliant brilliant brilliant bril bril- brilI I shortstop play plus consistent I pitching with the season late-season addition addition addition addi addi- tion of Whitey Win ley Ford did the job for the Yanks Yanks- Their series sweep I was almost an anticlimax after alter the pennant race rac race Oklahoma voted the No 1 football football foot fool ball club in the Associated Press poll flashed Clashed through its Us regular season unbeaten It finally met disaster in the Sugar bowl when Kentucky ruined its iLs game 31 record record rec- rec ord oid win streak 13 Princeton was the only other college football team mentioned among the first 10 teams inter Winter Sens Sensations City college now suffering the effects of the season after alter reaction reaction reaction tion tion were the late winter sensations sensations sensations sensa sensa- of 1950 After Alter upsetting favored ored Bradley in the national imitation invitation tournament coach Nat Holmans Holman's Beavers repeated the job jobin jobin jobin in the N C A A finals for an unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented un un- double The Phils of course were the surprise club of baseball beating bealing out the favored Brooklyn Dodgers for the National league penn pennant nt a late season collapse almost cost the Phils the flag but they rallied to win win the championship j t r On DIck ck home run at Brooklyn hick last hi JH In i the g game The late finish of the pro 1 ball hat 1 season after the tie pla PlaYOff may have cost the p Cle Cleveland eIan t Browns votes In the final tion lion Most of oC the ballots all ts were before the Browns Browns' r i y 1 final w vs over Los Angeles Dec 24 r |
