Word: coached
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...still doubtful whether the injured Dan Ullyot will start at defense for the varsity on Saturday. Unless Ullyot is in top shape, Crimson coach Cooney Weiland will probably keep him on the bench rather than risk further injuries that would inactivate him for the rest of the season...
Thus far this season Coach Hal Ulen's predictions about his team's fortunes have usually been exactly as the outcome. Occasionally, as with Springfield, he overestimated the capabilities of the opposition, but he can usually predict the final score with remarkable accuracy...
...been definitely superior to any comparable line put on by the opposition. Bud Higginbottom, Dick Fisher, and Dave Vietze at third line also fit this description, being far better than any other third or even second line in the East. Supplied with this wealth of good linemen, varsity coach Cooney Weiland can simply use them to wear the other team down and then capitalize in the third period...
NICOLAI GEDDA, 31. born in Stockholm of Russian-Swedish parents (his father was a baritone in the Don Cossack Chorus), did well in his Met debut as Faust, outdid himself as Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Anatol in Vanessa. Tall for a tenor-his pressagent, measuring with a basketball coach's rubber ruler, claims 6 ft. 3 in. -Gedda offers a clear, sweet voice that may lack warmth ("Champagne rather than Chianti," says one critic), but has strength and purity. His acting is intelligent, his pronunciation unusually correct for the opera stage; he is a linguist, speaks seven languages...
...Courted and spurned by muddled Texas A. & M. officials in their great posse hunt for a new football coach (TIME, Jan. 27), Iowa State's Jim Myers, 36, had righteously proclaimed that he would stay put. But after 2,229 Aggie students sent him a pleading telegram and a pair of cadet emissaries came to call, Myers switched horses ("I don't feel I've doublecrossed myself"), signed a four-year contract with the Texans wortu around $60,000 a year...