Word: cann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingham's statement came in answer to the New York Herald Tribune reports that Howard (Jake) Cann, New York University coach, was "interested" in the Harvard job. Cann, after 26 years of coaching at NYU, is "dissatisfied with year-to-year contracts." He indicated that he was chiefly interested in getting a contract covering a longer period...
...However, Cann is "not negotiating with Harvard--any more than I am with any other school." The Violet mentor is emphatic in stating that his relations with NYU officials and friendly and that his chief cause of dissatisfaction is the short contracts...
Bingham has not spoken to Cann and regards the Tribune story as so much speculation. Cann himself makes it clear that he has not been approached with any offffeffrff from Harvard and has not been in communication with any athletic officials from the College. He has said that any proposition, "even if it came from Hong Kong," would interest him, whether or not be considered it seriously...
...Cann's NYU fives have always ranked among the nation's best. He himself was a three-letterman there and represented the United States as a shot-putter in the 1930 Olympics...
...time the score was 41-24, Macauley had scored as many points as the whole N.Y.U. team put together. He had also guarded and faked the shoes off N.Y.U.'s vaunted Center Adolph Schayes. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard (Jake) Cann twice pulled Schayes out of the game, pointedly ignored him on the bench...