Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captains followed Valpey. Vince Moravee, captain of last year's team and part-time coach this season, pointed to the Freshman and Jayvee games as an indication of things to come, while Cleo O'Donnell addressed his remarks to a small but extroverted group of Elis who were singing bravely but unnoticed at the edge of the crowd. "I think they should come out of the cover of darkness," O'Donnell said, "because they certainly won't have much to cheer about tomorrow...
...people have tried to analyze how he does it, but they all end up by saying, "I don't know. He's just a great gay." It seems much easier to make a character study of a dramatic, Dick Harlow-type or an eternally pessimistic, Frank Leahy-type coach...
Harvard's new head coach arrived in Cambridge last spring to be greeted by 50 demoralized football players, a group of sports analysts who honestly wondered if he was a lamb being thrown to the wolves, and an undergraduate body which cared less about football than in any school he had ever seen...
...took the sports writers, showed them his team in action, and had them printing such items as greatest young coach in America" and "best in New England since Leahy...
...business, efficiency and thoroughness pays off. Art has thought that way ever since he definitely decided to become a football coach in 1941. At the time, he was only a few hours from his Master's degree at Michigan, but he dropped work on the degree because he figured it would be of little use to him in his new business...