Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard track immortal ever since his 26-point performance against Yale in 1955, returned to work himself back into shape. Charley Jenkins, the reigning Olympic 400-meter champion and an old habitue of Soldiers Field, was back, and Tom Courtney, Olympic 800-meter king and now an assistant varsity coach, breezed through a 50.8 440 early in the week...
...center of attention for most of the week was a small, bronzed man whose athletic feats were relatively modest. He was Dink Templeton, track coach at Stanford from 1921 to 1939, whom varsity coach Bill McCurdy, one of his former pupils, calls "the greatest track coach going...
...Besides McCurdy, 1937 Pacific Coast 880 champ, there was Lonnie Spurrier, first-year Business School student who set a world's record in the 880 while running for Templeton's San Francisco Athletic Club in 1955. Guinn Smith, assistant Dean of the Business School, came over to see the coach who guided him to the 1948 Olympic pole vault championship...
...Coach Adolph Samborski has a versatile and well-balanced squad with which to work in Freshman baseball this spring. Although there are no standouts that "carry" a team, the Yardling nine shapes up as very effective in the field, at the plate, and in the pitching department...
Northeastern, according to coach Dick Dukeshire, has one of its poorest freshman teams in about three years. He said that his team is short on pitching, especially after the loss of its top hurler. The second man on the mound staff, Bill Tully, will start for the Huskies...