Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't see the boat for the cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline stampede that ended with us being grossly insulted by a sturdy farmer fortunately isolated by 20 yards of muddy water...
Shepard came home in 1929 and started coaching again, teaching fast-break ball to southern teams until he wound up at Davidson College in North Carolina. It was here that the long frantic arm of H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 fell on his shoulder. "I was proud to get a chance to coach at Harvard," says Shepard. "You may not realize it now but back when I was playing, Harvard had an athletic reputation, too I haven't forgotten that...
...coach is also pretty proud of his executive officer. Shepard's assistant is a tall blond Dartmouth man called Floyd Wilson, who also has served a stretch in the Orient. He played basketball for Marine teams in China in 1945. His present job is to break Shepard into the intricacies of Eastern intercollegiate League Ball; in about two weeks Wilson will take over the freshman team. Shepard says "I needed someone who had played the northeastern circuit...
...thinks his new team ought to do a little better than last year's three-up and 20-down wonders. He leans back, grins, and says "I might as well make the usual coach's comment. Things look encouraging." Shepard is going to teach his boys, the same fast-break type of ball he played himself; his schedule is a "reasonably tough...
Another aid to Kiner's hitting is his movie camera and projector. Part of his homework is studying slow-motion pictures of himself at bat, looking for telltale hitches, lunges and hesitations. At the first sign of any break in his smooth-flowing style he goes to work on himself. Unlike most contemporary sluggers, Kiner digs into a wide-legged stance at the plate and takes almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into...