Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northwestern's jitters followed them on to the playing field. They fumbled three times. The first fumble cost them, a safety. Minnesota turned the other two into touchdowns. That brought the score to 16-0. Northwestern's coach Bob Voigts chewed gum a mile a minute on the bench...
...telling his all-too-tame Wildcats that they had to hate the guy across the line from them. Only a few days before, an eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...
...other big wheel, Michigan, had been turning slowly ,so far this season. It had a new coach, old Michigan Immortal Bennie Oosterbaan, as well as a few players left over from last year's Rose Bowl champions. Michigan barely got past Michigan State (13-7) in its first game, but picked up some momentum against Oregon (14-0), and last week crushed Purdue...
...night, 41 years ago, the Budapest Opera, had a crisis of another sort. It was nearly curtain time, and the conductor was ill. Who would conduct Carmen? In desperation, the director grabbed the 18-year-old singing coach, and ordered him into the pit. "I had no preparation," says Fritz Reiner of that night. "It was sink or swim. I swam...
...first half, the Crimson carried the ball 35 times, Army 32. Howie Houston, in Coach Art Valpey's opinion, played "the fineat tackle game I've ever seen at any time." Phil Isenberg and Kenny O'Donnell, standouts in the two previous games this year, made those performances look amateur. Jim Noonan's shifty running outclassed Bobby Jack Stuart's. Doug Bradice, Sam Butler, and Bill Henry were all outstanding...