Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when football coaches like Frank Leahy and Fritz Crisler have teams like their 1947 Notre Dame and Michigan machines, will they never come out and say, "I'm going to win this game."? Because morale, that intangible something which even the best coach has only slight control over, figures in the final score of virtually every game...
Take the Green Bay Packer-Chicago Bear surprise of last week as a good example. Before their game with the Bears, the Packers had played four other clubs, only one of whom gained more than eleven (11) yards rushing. Now Packer Coach E. L. "Curly" Lambean had gone ahead and in no uncertain terms declared that this team was the greatest thing to hit Wisconsin since Schlitz, every bit as good as his championship aggregations of 1929, '30, and '31 and the players knew it. The Bears were just ordinary Godfearing pro football players. They had Lujack, Luckman, and Layne...
...coach can bring his team "up" psychologically for a game only twice during a season. Art Valpey claims he did nothing to bring his boys "up" for Columbia. They came up by themselves, and they will do the same thing for Yale and Army. In the meantime, they will be psychologically "down" for games like Dartmouth. Princeton, Brown, Holy Cross. And Cornell, How low they sink in comparison to Cornell's rise (it is fresh from a win over tough Navy) will decide the game. For the Crimson is able to win: if it doesn't, morale will...
...Yardling coach, who met the members of his squad for the first time Tuesday of last week, says that he'll actually be operating a 17 or 18-man first team. But he named the following yearlings as probable starters for the '52 opener tomorrow at the Stadium...
...Coach Lamar also revealed that by next week he intends to cut Freshman grid workouts to an hour and a half daily in order to give his squad members ample time at their courses...