Word: coach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew only one personal foul, though he played all but the final 45 seconds. If he had not been suffering from an injured back, Robertson might have eclipsed his own Madison Square Garden scoring record of 56 points, made last year against Seton Hall. Said N.Y.U. Coach Lou Rossini ruefully: "He's as great a basketball player as I've ever seen. I guess the only way to stop him would be to put four men on him and let one guy cover the other four...
From the moment Jack Kramer arrived, Australians viewed him with mixed feelings. As coach of the U.S. Davis Cup squad, he was theoretically welcome. But as a promoter who has lured away top Australian stars for his professional tours, he was viewed with ill-concealed hostility...
...fact, the Cup seemed safe enough for Australia this year. U.S. Kingpin Ham Richardson was far off his game, and Butch Buchholz was still a year or so away from top form. But Kramer is more of a threat to the Aussies as a promoter than a coach. If he succeeds in luring away Cooper and Anderson in 1959, Buchholz & Co. may give the U.S. its best chance in five years to recover...
Paul Ditzel, Miami '48, guided Louisiana State from mediocrity (5-5 in 1957) to its first unbeaten, untied season in half a century, got for L.S.U. everyone's rating as the nation's best college team, for himself most people's nomination as Coach of the Year...
Miami could also take pride in two men who had coached there and gone on to bigger things. Ohio State's Woody Hayes, who coached at Miami in 1949-50, made his team a season-long threat in the Big Ten. Sid Gillman, Miami's coach in 1944-47, has steered the Los Angeles Rams into second place in the N.F.L. Western Division...