Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejoice at the notoriety given the Elis' outstanding forward, but Lee's presence can only forecast another tough season for Floyd Wilson's Harvard basketball team, for if Yale is going to be strong, so is Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, and Pennsylvania. The last two seasons, under Wilson's coaching, the Crimson has tied for last place with Brown (and Yale in '54-55), and although there is no more popular coach than Wilson and no more likeable players than his squad, it seems extremely unlikely that the Crimson will be able to rise higher than sixth in the eight-team...
...stomach tore loose some of Parry's groin muscles. "Thereafter," he recalls, "any grunting effort would result in excruciating pain. The frosh team was under the direction of Harry 'Black Jack' Smith then. He taught football like it was war. Jeff Cravath was varsity coach. Between the two of them, I about lost interest in the game." Another man who helped ease Parry out of his football pads was Wilbur ("Moose") Thompson, U.S.C.'s 1948 Olympic shotput winner, who had watched the blond, well-larded freshman working out with the track team, and as soon...
...After guiding Columbia University's football team through 27 years and 237 games. Coach Lou Little, 64, finally came to the time to retire (the record: in wins, 116 losses, 10 ties). Lately, Little's teams had been losing so often that he was almost beginning to believe that a noble effort is more important than winning. But for his final game, his team gave him the kind of performance any coach really prefers: it finished fast in the fourth quarter to beat Rutgers...
...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...
Metropoulos was also named to Cornell coach Lefty James's all-opponent team. Princeton coach Charlie Caldwell, did not place any Crimson players on his all-opponent squad...