Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other coaches grumble about his firehouse brand of basketball. "I know they hate it," says cocky Coach Frank Keaney of Rhode Island State. Long ago he quit concentrating on defense and worked up an exaggerated fast-break style. Says he: "We will give anybody 100 points if we can get 101." Every man on his squad knows that he has to throw rather than dribble, outrun rather than outskill the opposition-and keep running. The fans love...
Last week, with the basketball season nearly half gone, Keaney's firehouse gang was one of a dozen major U.S. college teams (out of more than 400) still unbeaten.* They ran past bewildered New Hampshire, 88-64. Then they went after Maine. Sixty-two-year-old Coach Keaney was as much a part of the show as his team...
...mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews his own medicines; the team swears by his skin-hardener and his cure for athlete's foot...
With this match the grapplers halted operations for the duration of the examination period, although daily practice is being held in the wrestling room. First meet of the new term will see them facing Army, and in the words of Coach Boston, "The honeymoon is over with three tough meets coming up in the first two weeks of the new term...
...second half, the Varsity tried hard to make up the deficit, outscoring the Princetonians 21 to 18, but Coach Bill Barclay's foces were never closer than six points behind the Tigers, and the visitors moved away in the final ten minutes to win without trouble...