Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exclusion from the big meet had left Ohio State's peppery little coach, Mike Peppe, sputtering. "We're not nearly as guilty of irregularities as 100 other colleges in the U.S.," he insisted. "When it comes to swimming recruiting, we're nothing but pikers compared to some schools like Yale. And Michigan. Michigan has a very aggressive group of alumni recruiters. I have no wealthy alumni here," said Mike with a straight face. "Anyway, to go after swimmers like Yale and Michigan do is illegitimate...
Memphis State's brand-new basketball coach. Bob Vanatta, was a certified authority on the task his Memphis State Tigers faced in Madison Square Garden in the final game of the National Invitation Tournament. Memphis State's opponent was more than just another good team; almost every man on the Bradley University squad was also a Vanatta product, personally recruited and painstakingly trained during the past two seasons when Vanatta was Bradley's head coach...
...with the traveling public-or more trouble to CAB-than Trans American Airlines. Put together by a former Navy lieutenant commander, an ex-Air Corps transport pilot, and two former Douglas Aircraft employees, the Trans American group of companies started cheap fares, forced scheduled airlines to cut-rate coach fares. Trans American built up a $16 million annual business. All told, it has carried more than 1,250,000 passengers without an accident. But it broke CAB's regulations by shuffling planes about among five interlocking companies and operating like a scheduled carrier without a franchise...
...Crimson's Tom Cochrane was scratched from the event with some difficulty. The NCAA has a ruling that once a swimmer is scratched from one event, he is automatically scratched from all other events. But freshman coach Bill Brooks raced on ahead of the team and was able to outtalk the officials' objections that a scratching would overbalance the heats...
...trip will give varsity coach Jack Barnaby an opportunity to watch his players in action against some stiff competition, and give the players a chance to sharpen up their games for the season's opener April 17 against M.I.T...