Word: coach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the University continued to emphasize clean living and disclaimed any policies of athletic recruiting or favoritism. Coach Yovicsin repeated his pledge to play the games "within the Ivy League Code," which everyone interpreted as meaning another losing year for the Varsity. And, despite the article about God and Charlie Ravenel at Harvard in Sports Illustrated, the Crimson was still losing more than it was winning...
...Army had, until 1957, treated the RFA program as a football coach might handle an inexperienced team--"nothing fancy or unusual until we've got the players to do it with." It was only since 1957 that the Army "got the players," or in this case, the right number and caliber of volunteers. It still remains to be seen if the Army, with enough men in the RFA program finally, will ever take the necessary steps to improve...
...Coach Bob Pickett called the victory "a good one to get right after exams" but said that the team has "a lot of work to do" before it can handle the rest of the league. The varsity faces a "pretty good" Columbia squad next Saturday in New York...
...were that boy," says B.U.'s Field Events Coach Ed Flanagan, "I'd figure on the high jump in next year's Olympics, the jump and the hurdles in the next one, the decathlon in his prime. He won't even get to his prime until he's maybe 30 -a good dozen years...
...paint daubed on their faces begin to circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident he disarms and captures-a severe dressing down. "My dear fellow, this coach was traveling at a legal rate of speed on a public highway. If you don't desist, I shall protest to the authorities." The chief, grateful for his life, calls off his braves...