Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Admiral Byrd. The rachitic Long Island Railroad (which carries more commuters than any other U.S. railroad) bogged down most completely. Its electric trains got stalled and so did the steam locomotives sent out to rescue them. Many a passenger spent the night in an unheated coach, smoking cigarettes, dreaming of food and drink...
...regrets the turn hockey has taken is taciturn Frank Boucher, an Irishman with a French name (rhymes with touché), who coaches the New York Rangers. Boucher, one of the greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five...
...College Station, Texas, last week, chunky, 50-year-old Homer Norton thanked everybody kindly, pocketed $20,000, and walked out. As head football coach at Texas A. & M., he had made the mistake of losing to the University of Texas for eight years in a row. Now he was fired...
Shaggy-haired Jimmy Conzelman may not be the best coach in pro football, but he is a favorite of sports writers anyway. No one else has so ingratiating a way of passing off his victories, or so good-natured a way of explaining his defeats. He almost gives the impression that he thinks football is a game, not a business...
...Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack, 22, quarterback extraordinary, won the Heisman Memorial Trophy, by a landslide, as the year's No. 1 collegiate football player. The coach-of-the-year, in a New York World-Telegram poll of 272 college coaches, was Michigan's smart Fritz Crisler...