Sentence examples similar to player of the second from inspiring English sources

The Associated Press named Mikan the best basketball player of the first half of the 20th century.

Staunton, the most influential player of the first half of the 19th century, was severely critical of players who took "hours over moves where minutes might suffice".

He was named the greatest tennis player of the first half of the 20th century in a 1950 Associated Press poll and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959.

Miles, who is generally considered the greatest American player of the twentieth century, was, if not the anti-Reisman, then the non-Reisman of table tennis.

He was arguably the player of the first half of last season and his fall from form and favour has been remarkable.

Brazil started things off quickly with a brilliant run by Willian, perhaps Brazil's best player of the first half, to put Canarinho ahead after just nine minutes.

Yet when in 1950 he was voted the outstanding tennis player of the first half of the 20th century in an Associated Press poll, he had only recently completed his second prison term for making sexual advances to a teenage boy.

Such a Russia would become a global player of the first-rank not from sheer military might as in days past, but from an innovative, dynamic economy.

On January 16, Sporting News named Stauskas the surprise player of the first half of the year.

He also became the first English player of the twentieth century to captain a team to The Double.

In 1950, the Canadian Press named him the best ice hockey player of the first half of the 20th century.