Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single coach of the seven Ivy League teams this season was directing his squad a year ago, although in some cases mentors have returned from service to resume control. Every team is thus practically on a par from the stand-point of experience with a system, and the season now in its infancy will be an excellent test of each coach's ability, as well as the capabilities of the individual ball players to adjust themselves to a new mode of play...
Dartmouth, under newly-installed coach Elmer Lampe, has been a disappointment to court followers who are accustomed to Big Green supremacy hereabouts. The Indians, after squeaking through against Rutgers and Union, among others, by narrow margins, suffered six defeats in a row during the vacation, although they met outstanding competition in Holy Cross, Manhatten, Toledo, Notre Dame, and California, which pasted the Hanover crowd twice. Even more distressing to Lampe, is the graduation in February of Aud Brindley, towering center, and Eddie Leede, another high scorer. Columbia has center Walt Budko, but apparently the Lions need four other guys...
...easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...
...repeated theory that the Middle West is the home of America's best basketball will get a Crimson sampling next week, when Coach Bill Barclay's five tours the outlands in Harvard's first Western court invasion since...
...Barclay, it should be an opportunity to get a much better line on his charges, especially his reserve corps. Eleven players, a trainer, a manager and the coach will be in the entourage. Joining the westward movement will be Captain Saul Mariaschin, John Gantt, George Hauptfuhrer, Leo Page, Steve Davis, John Noble, Bill Henry, Bob Crotty, Bill Harford, Frank Holt and Ted Nelson...