Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frisch resigned as coach for the New York Giants (where he had won fame in the '20s as a hard-hitting, base-stealing second baseman) to become manager of the tottering Chicago Cubs. He replaced another Dutchman, Charlie Grimm, who was nudged upstairs into a vice president's chair. Since winning a wartime pennant under Grimm, the Cubs had become tame as kittens. They finished in the National League cellar last year for the first time in 23 years and were still struggling to stay out of last place last week. That Frisch could lift them...
...mission to the U.S. The purpose: to flex muscles, see the sights, win a few races. Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...
Without question, Roger Bannister was Britain's best foot forward in spiked shoes since the great Sydney Wooderson. Another Oxford lad, Nick Stacey, ran off with the 100-and 220-yd. dashes and Teammate Philip Morgan took the twomile. But in the hurdles and field events, where professional coaching pays off, the coach-less Britons flopped. They lost the meet...
...Crimson coach said, however, that if Godin goes Monday he will almost certainly see service in part of the second Eli game--so Class Day fans will get a chance to see the team's top hurler for at least part of the game...
...general rule an exam in a certain subject given away must start at precisely the same moment as the same exam begins in Cambridge. For this reason crew coach Tom Bolles, who is in charge of proctoring finals in 30 subjects for his charges in New London, has had to build his whole practice program around the exam schedule, planning rowing only early in the morning and late in the afternoon...