Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nurse fond dreams of big-league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so central to the Celtics' championship hopes that last week Coach Red Auerbach refused to tempt trouble by putting him back in uniform too soon for the four and five pounding miles of running required in a pro game. So Bill bided his time until the St. Louis Hawks invaded the Boston Garden late last week. Then, Bill Russell, San Francisco...
...Gosh, I wish I'd missed it by one vote," said Tennessee's Bowden Wyatt when he was told that the American Football Coaches Association had named him Coach of the Year. Sugar Bowl-bound for a New Year's Day game with Baylor, the Volunteers are balanced on the peak of an unbeaten season, and Wyatt is too busy keeping them there to enjoy the honor. "This puts extra pressure on you," said...
Such intricate demands, infinitely multiplied, have forced Gifford to improve constantly during five seasons with the Giants. "The most surprising thing about him," says Giant Coach Jim Lee Howell, "is that he's still improving." But he is already good enough to be the first pro this year to gain a total of more than 1,000 yds. running with the ball and receiving passes. He has gained an average of 5.2 yds. every time he has handled the ball this season. But Gifford figures that time is running out for him, and after two more years he will...
...will see plenty of action. He demonstrated fine ball control and the best set shot seen at Harvard for several years. The rest of the ten-man squad, Griff McClellan, Bryant Danner, Bob Barnett, and Bill Schreiber, will probably play about the same amount they did against Brown, as Coach Wilson seeks to develop two smooth-working fives...
Without Clarkson or St. Lawrence then, the tournament looms as a three-cornered battle between the local teams, B.C., B.U., and the Crimson. The Boston hockey writers seem to have discounted the varsity at the start of the season, but as Coach Cooney Weiland remarked before the 10-2 romp over Providence, "We're a different team...