Word: ben
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...worked hard as hell and didn't get much for it," sighed Coach Ben Martin, an old Army foe from his days as a Navy letterman (class of '45). But his underdog team had made an auspicious beginning for the threeway, interservice rivalry that could become the most engrossing in college football...
...daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden. All the same, after a 21-year absence from Broadway, a play boasting so many good things, in a production with such good things, is well worth a visit...
...blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But when he spoke, they spun to listen, and for good reason. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 8 in., 160 lbs.) Coach Floyd Burdette ("Ben") Schwartzwalder, 50, is the one man who has changed Syracuse from a perpetual Eastern patsy into a powerhouse that leads the nation in offense (36.4 points, 441.8 yds. per game) and defense (100 yds. allowed per game...
Hard-Nosed, Hard-Bitten.WhenCoach Schwartzwalder arrived in 1949, Syracuse's chief interest in football was to beat archrival Colgate occasionally. Coach Ben brought with him a 25-5 record, compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major...
...Ben Franklin...