Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an invaluable one-goal lead and the winds again at Harvard's back at the start of the second half, Coach Bruce Munro decided to switch to a more defensive game, gambling on a 1 to 0 win. The halfback line withdrew more often to augment the fullback strength, and the two insides played farther back to meet the Princeton forward line where the halfbacks normally would have...
...half they began to move. With impressive ease, Iowa tied the score. Then, with three long minutes left to keep going to victory, the Hawkeyes quit. They simply ran out the clock and settled for a 21-21 tie. His boys seemed to have "run out of gas," as Coach Evashevski saw it. To 90,000 booing spectators at Ann Arbor, it seemed as if Forest Evashevski and his team had broken a commandment...
When North Carolina upset Navy last month, Football turned sour at Annapolis. The embarrassed Middies had been trying too hard. To loosen them up, Coach Eddie Erdelatz encouraged a corny gag: every game was dedicated to a nicely rounded, nonexistent damsel named Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage...
Died. Charles W. (Charlie) Caldwell Jr., 56, Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year...
Directed Connection. In Los Angeles, a Metropolitan Coach Lines bus driver rolled six miles nonstop through morning rush-hour traffic, zoomed past red lights and waiting passengers after Rider Netti Appleton, 39, enraged over bus-stop delays, jammed a loaded .38 pistol into his side, barked: "Keep going-I'm late for work...