Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caldwell looks like a non-Ivy League football coach, though he was wearing a neat grey suit, light tie, and crew cut for his visit. He smoked nearly all the time. He has almost no accent, "but I can drop back into a Southern accent whenever I want...
Died. Herman Michael Hickman, 46, behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio...
...defeating the Tiger eight, which the Princeton coach had termed the best crew he had seen in twenty years, the varsity led from the first quarter of a mile. The Princetonians maintained their start in the high 30's after the Crimson boat had dropped down to its racing stroke of 32 and held a lead of about one seat. But as soon as the Tiger shell came down to racing cadence the varsity's superior power and steadiness became apparent with the Crimson boat pulling out in front by a half-length in the next quarter mile...
...Coach Jack Barnaby said afterwards that he was "extremely proud of the boys for really tearing into Princeton. A fine upset win was in the making over the team that beat us 13 to 2 last spring," he added...
Crimson and Navy varsity baseball teams waited in the rain at Annapolis for 11/2 hours Saturday before giving up hope and calling off the game. Rescheduling of the game is up to the H.A.A., but coach Norman Shepard said last night that it would be played only if the outcome will affect league standings...