Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center, coach Doggie Julian will go with 6 ft, 8 in. Dave Farnsworth, a junior who has not been particularly effective to date. The Indians are very strong in the backcourt, however, where they use Chuck Kaufman and Walt Sosnowski. Kaufman is averaging about 15 markers a game, and Sosnowski about 10. Dartmouth is weak in reserve strength, but the starting five more than compensates for this deficiency...
...Richardson, the U.S. top-ranked player, was dropped by nonplaying Captain Perry Jones as a singles player on the ground that his diabetic condition made him unfit to handle the workload, complained bitterly and publicly that he had been treated shabbily. Even U.S. Pro Promoter (and part-time team coach) Jack Kramer had conceded victory to the Aussies...
...socks, squirmed on his chair, periodically leaped up to loose a volley of abuse at a panting Kentucky player. Out on the floor of Louisville's Freedom Hall, the University of Kentucky basketball team was botching plays, losing passes, defending raggedly against an alert Illinois team. Coach Adolph Rupp relaxed only when a last-ditch Illinois shot rolled harmlessly off the rim, preserving a 76-75 Kentucky victory. Sighed the Baron: "That one nearly killed...
...years as head basketball coach at Kentucky, Adolph ("The Baron") Rupp, 57, has fretted and fidgeted his way through 595 victories, lost only 103 games. His teams have triumphed with a pleasant monotony characteristic of the New York Yankees, won the N.C.A.A. championship a record four times, the National Invitation tournament and 19 Southeastern Conference championships...
...Want to Win." "He's not the most modest coach who ever came down the pike," says West Virginia's Fred Schaus of Rupp, "but he's the greatest." Says Tennessee's Coach Emmett Lowery...