Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only at the ends does Coach Little have real cause for the worries he professes, but here Old Man Graduation really took his toll when he removed Bill Swiacki and Bruce Gehrke from the Light Blue roster. Adam Rakowski is the only experienced end returning, but Lion rooters are waiting patiently for Little to wave the same magic wand he used in beating Army last year and come up with someone else to pull down Rossides' heaves...
Cross country coach Jaakko Mikkola always dusts off the welcome mat for prospective runners. This week, he'll hold a meeting for erstwhile pavement pounders at his headquarters in Dillon Field House. Practices are held on what is known as the University Handicap Course, a cinder strip running parallel to the Charles River as far as the Metropolitan Police Station. For meet competition, both Freshman and Varsity squads move to Dorchester's Franklin Park...
Last year's Varsity record was typical of the mediocre showing Crimson harrier units have made in the past few years (although Coach Mikkola's Freshman-Varsity track and cross country score-card against Yale is 33 wins and 9 losses...
...coach and the toughest schedule of fall sports makes pregame predictions for the Varsity soccer team an unusually risky proposition. J. Bruce Munro, the new coach, avoids forecasts but assents to the problems of the schedule...
After making the All-American soccer team, and the All-New England team, for Springfield in the fall of 1940, Munro was also picked for the All-New England lacrosse team in the spring. He then took his M.A. at Springfield acting as assistant soccer and lacrosse coach, before entering the Army where he spent the next four and a half years, mostly as a captain in the South Pacific...