Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coach Cooney Weiland has said that his team "plays well, and is getting better all the time," and the 7-0 Saturday loss as Princeton was to one of the strongest Ivy teams...
...Finish. Willing to try anything to make their charges swim faster. Australian coaches experiment with special diets (Murray Rose stokes up on seaweed jelly) and novel styles. A few have even tried hypnotism. But like good coaches anywhere, they depend most on grinding work. In the year preceding the Melbourne Olympics, Australian team members trained hard for ten months, swam six days a week, covered an estimated 80 miles apiece each month. Many of them took a ten weeks' calisthenics course in a Sydney gym, tossed medicine balls, chinned the horizontal bar, did pushups. Buoyant...
...team returned from the southern trip with a record of two wins and three losses, but, according to coach Cooney Weiland, "the fellows are getting better all the time...
...winning the final race against a very good Syracuse eight, the varsity eight not only vindicated Coach Harvey Love's choice of them as his first boat, but also showed that it will be a crew to contend with in the weeks to follow. Its time of 8:48.4 was seven seconds better than anything it has rowed in practice and it had the necessary stamina to hold off the Orange in the final yards of the race when Syracuse was rowing a frantic 40 to the varsity...
...Coach Bruce Munro, who normally uses only three midfield teams during a game, rotated four to wear down the M.I.T. teams in Wednesday's 6-4 victory. But such a strategy involves the calculated risk that the opposing team will score against the weak fourth line, for the Crimson is notably weak in reserves...