Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After losing to Yale, 1-0, last Thursday, Harvard's prospects for the title looked bleak. However, the race seems to be tightening up. The Crimson still must face Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown. Coach Mike Getman and his squad will need to capture all three games to have any chance. Even three wins would probably require help from around the league...
...Harvard's] defense was just too strong for us. Their sidebacks were really blocking well," Cornell Coach Shelby Bowman said. "We try to bring the ball down the wings. Normally, we bring it down the left a lot and our left wing wasn't able to bring it down...
Laughing all the way, Braden has become a celebrity in the sports world. Jack Kramer, the 1947 Wimbledon champion, calls him "the world's best all- around tennis coach," who can improve the game of anyone "from a beginner to a champion." Braden was featured on the cover of the August issue of Tennis magazine. In television commercials he is touting Tennis Our Way, a videotape he made with Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith, and millions of sports fans have chuckled at his commentaries on cable and network TV. The best known of his five books, Vic Braden's Tennis...
...Braden sees it, sports belong not only to the stars but also to the "toads" -- his fond appellation for the less gifted. "We should have 80 million tennis players and 80 million skiers," he says. One reason we do not, he believes, is bad coaching. "I've watched coaches say, 'Shut up and do it the way I tell you because I'm the coach.' I've watched coaches abuse people, hit people and even kick people. There are not enough coaches out there saying, 'Hey, it's O.K. Here, let me show you how to do it. Just hang...
Using humor, psychology and physics, the author and coach extraordinaire shows nonstars easy ways to improve their performance on tennis courts and ski slopes...