Word: coach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lowry Air Force Base as the football team took on freshman and minor-college opposition with indifferent success. But last week the academy's Falcons found themselves in astonished possession of an unbeaten record in big-time competition, aspirations of national ranking. Reason: a 37-year-old coach named Ben Martin...
Onetime varsity letterman and later an assistant coach at Annapolis, Martin went to Colorado Springs from the University of Virginia last winter. In two years under businesslike Buck Shaw (now coach of the Philadelphia Eagles), the Falcons had been unresponsive. Martin took one look at movies of Air Force games and decided, "We had to set our sights on basics...
...longer than the biggest piston plane and longer than the distance of Wright's first flight. They seem more like roomy club cars than planes. Though the 707 will seat up to 150 people, American plans to seat only 112 at first, evenly divided between first class and coach...
...Mosier, 61, executive vice president in charge of operations, is a big, sugar-voiced barrel of a man, who bosses the biggest operations setup in the industry, spends 70% of American's dollar. A onetime barnstorming pilot, football coach and city manager, Mosier was hand-picked by Smith in 1938, is gearing every part of American's operation to such jet-age innovations as new fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone consists...
Throughout the entire first half, the Crimson attack was a delight to watch. The forwards passed and shot excellently as they kept up a withering attack on the Bruin goal. Crimson coach Bruce Munro lauded the team after the game, saying, "I haven't seen such precision bombing since I left the Air Force...