Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last item on the Michigan athletic board's agenda had been cleared away when Fritz Crisler added: "There's just one more matter." He had a small announcement to make: Football Coach-of-the-Year Crisler, whose undefeated Big Nine champions had rolled through Southern California (49-0) in the Rose Bowl, was through with coaching. There was a moment's silence, then a board member cracked: "Fritz, we didn't know you were getting that...
Yale had to go farther afield for a football coach to replace Howie Odell, who quit for more money at the University of Washington. The Eli choice: able, 300-lb. Herman Hickman, 36, the man behind the Army lines. As Earl Blaik's assistant, Tennessee-born Hickman was as proud as a lion tamer of his viciously charging cadet lines (he called them affectionately "Mah Rowdies...
Indiana University picked one of Alvin ("Bo") McMillin's playing and coaching proteges to succeed him: mild, schoolmasterly Clyde B. Smith, 42, onetime Indiana line coach, now head coach at La Crosse (Wis.) State Teachers College...
...while it looked as if the Varsity track team would join the southern migration next week, but the proposed tour fizzled and so most of Coach Mikkola's 100 candidates will spend their Easter vacation in twice-daily workouts on the Stadium cinders...
Meanwhile, groundskeepers have been raking and rolling the quarter-mile Stadium strip, which will be dry and ready for occupancy Monday. Coach Mikkola says outdoor practice is running behind schedule but admits the team has "some bright spots." Varsity Schedule April 10 Boston College April 17 Rhode Island State April 24 Holy Cross, Boston University May 1 Dartmouth May 8 Yale May 15 Nonagonal Games at West Point May 28-29 IC4A Games at New York...