Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things hadn't been that way in the great Knute Rockne's day. Rockne, like Leahy, had walloped the daylights out of the opposition. But somehow he also made them like it, or at least bear it. When once asked who he thought was the greatest football coach, Rockne winked and said: "Modesty forbids . . but I'll tell you who the two greatest coaches are and one of them is . . ." To win consistently and get away with it nowadays requires the talent of a diplomat as well as that of a coach. Leahy...
Getting beaten by a Leahy-coached team, rival coaches say, is as unpleasant as going through a meatgrinder. His great weakness as a coach lies in his aloofness. He is a superb organizer, a wonderful tactician, has a talent for inspiring great spirit in his players, who respect him but don't love...
...season, for its opening game against the Irish, the Boilermakers worked up enough steam to press all the pants in South Bend. After playing inspired football all afternoon, Purdue was beaten by one heartbreaking point, 28-27-and hasn't been the same since. Said California's Coach Lynn Waldorf, late of Northwestern: "They not only beat you, but ruin your team [physically and mentally] for the next weekend...
...weeks ago, against Kansas State, Bronko could hardly believe it when the coach nodded for him to go into the game...
McGugan buckled on his old black helmet (he didn't rate one of the new, shiny, white ones) and hustled out on the field. He played for eight minutes, the last three because students up in the stands chanted "We want McGugan" when the coach pulled him out of the game...