Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from New Orleans to Tampa by coach at night requires two changes, and a four-hour wait at Jacksonville. The only sleeper from Atlanta to Nashville bumps to a stop 43 times in ten hours. It has only recently become possible for a passenger to cross the country without changing trains-at the price of two hours of shunting in Chicago yards while the car is scrubbed and the air conditioning wavers erratically...
There are plenty of towels of all shapes and sizes at Soldiers Field these days, but you won't find any of the crying variety. That's why Coach Valpey refuses to discuss the seven Sophomores who played first string Freshman ball last fall and have now dropped out of the picture...
...Coach Valpey himself supervised play from the sidelines in a T-shirt and slacks, even though visibility was so bad that observers huddled in the press-box could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire." It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...
Thus did Freshman football coach Henry Lamar characterize his own personal problems at the end of Wednesday's "strictly-for-fun" practice. The first official practice session is this afternoon; before then, Lamar will know very little about the final makeup of his squad...
...that's not the attitude at Baker Field. Somehow, the word has gotten around that "Harvard is loaded," and Columbia coach Lou Little will assure you that he spends sleepless nights worrying about such Crimson stars as Gannon, Moffie, Kenary, Drvaric, Houston, Rodis, Florentino, DiBlasio and Guthrle, who he feels could make Harvard tougher than Yale or Rutgers...