Word: alumnus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Oregon State's Coach Lon Stiner confessed that his real field general is a salaried alumnus, who sits high above the playing field in the press box. Ex-Halfback Bob Dethman of O.S.C.'s 1942 Rose Bowl team keeps a close eye on the opponents' weaknesses. When he decides what play to call, he telephones to the bench and a substitute relays it to the Oregon State huddle. Says Stiner, who is a member of the rules committee: "All coaches are doing some signal calling. . . . That substitution rule has to be changed...
Caldwell came to Princeton in 1945, and his selection as the fifteenth man to hold the position of head coach revived a Bengal tradition that an alumnus should always be found in that post. Caldwell was a member of the Class...
...fulfill the very functions now slated for the new Center and that "it didn't work." Then in an inkling of much that is left unsaid he notes the greater dignity of "spontaneous" fund-raising from a broad-based donor group capable of small contributions rather than what one alumnus calls the usual "browbeating of wealthy men" alone. The Student Activities Center is in Lowell's estimation so large an undertaking from the standpoint of soliciting money that it has assumed all the marks of complete impracticability...
...Hire. Where does Crisler get the specialists to make his system run? Like every other U.S. coach, he knows that Santa Claus doesn't leave them in his stocking every Christmas. Says Crisler: "I see nothing wrong with an alumnus helping a deserving athlete through college. What I object to is alumni who throw money into a kitty and say, 'Go out and get a football team...
Like later 'malefactors of great wealth," Stoughton turned in his declining years to repairing the reputation he had earlier destroyed. The result was the donation in 1799 of 1,000 pounds to the College for the first edifice in Harvard history to be built through the gift of an alumnus. This sum did not completely cover construction cost, and it was necessary for the College to petition the Massachusetts General Court for the right to use brick from an Indian college that had fallen into decay. This right was granted, but only after the College agreed that Indians coming...