Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was playing under the shadow of his own goalpost. He knew, when he signed to coach at the University of California, what had befallen his predecessors: eleven out of 18 had been fired (by the school's potent Associated Students Executive Committee) after only one season. And the Cal team Waldorf inherited was virtually the same team that lost seven games last year...
Anyone who says that professional football lacks the old college try will get an argument out of Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland's pro Browns. He has made it his business to see that his men enjoy the game as much as the paycheck. "The greatest professionals play for pleasure," he insists. "I have probably the most amateur professional team in captivity...
Classroom Coach. Paul Brown believes in giving his "lean and hungry" hirelings brief workouts-never more than two hours at a time. Says he: "If a man learns and studies first, practice doesn't have to be too long. Using the brain saves energy...
...slight confusion in the presence of cohorts Henry Lamer, Harold Kopp, and Harry Jacunski and switched to his middle name. Now known almost exclusively as Bob he has fitted into the Crimson pattern of postwar expanding football which began two years ago with the coming of himself, line coach Kopp, and end coach Jacunski, all as assistants to Harlow...
...February, 1946, Margarita joined, the Crimson football hierarchy in the capacity of backfield coach. His background, and unobtrusive cleverness qualified him perfectly for this vital position in one of the twentieth century's most complicated large scale enterprises. Within his 175-pound five-foot-ten frame d wells one of the greatest halfbacks in college and professional football history...