Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn up in Miami or Maryland as it is to be discovered at Pitt. Massillon, Ohio, a perennial producer of champions, sends its graduates all over the Big Ten. West Point's bird dogs have always found fine hunting on the playing fields of Florida; Michigan State Coach Duffy Daugherty collects some of his burliest backs in the mill towns of Massachusetts...
Pushups v. Perfection. In Texas high schools, college-style coaches are wooed with high pay and flashy gifts. In 1954 Abilene town boosters went out in the open market to buy their youngsters a coach who could train winners. For a $10,100 salary (the U.S. average for high school coaches: $6,500), plus handsome bonuses and a high-priced side job as a TV football commentator, the Eagles got Charles Hinton Moser Jr., 39, a solid Missourian who played center for the University of Missouri and ripped up opposing lines in the late 1930s. A deep-voiced, ingratiating joiner...
Abilene's youngsters, like others all over Texas, are graduates of well-organized "Pee Wee" (fifth and sixth grade) football leagues. Having already learned to take their lumps, they get from Chuck a generous dollop of the kind of coaching they will get even more intensively after they earn college athletic scholarships. Moser's assistant coaches, managers and quarterbacks get a mimeographed sheet of instructions before each practice session. There are movies of every game to be studied. To soothe the pains of workouts there are whirlpool baths and other expensive paraphernalia in the Abilene field house...
There are, however, several complicating factors. "We're in awfully tough shape," says Penn coach Steve Sebo, and that sums up the situation quite accurately. Barney Beringer will be absent from his right end slot and Tony Capuano will not be available for duty at left guard Both were starters against Navy last week...
...same reason, Coach John Yovicsin will probably not use McLaughlin and Stahura. McLaughlin dressed for practice this afternoon, but did not work out with the team. He did some easy jogging, and it will be entirely up to the physicians whether he will see action tomorrow. Stahura, although here with the squad, did not dress for practice...