Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota's big, rugged line was enough to scare any coach. Before last week's traditional battle for the "Little Brown Jug," Michigan's Coach Bennie Oosterbaan decided to strike over Minnesota's beef trust instead of through it. Bull's-eye passes set up two Michigan touchdowns...
...game 35,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever to watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
...They're Wilting!" Coach Enright paced the sidelines, hoped for a break-and got one. Carolina's star halfback, Steve Wadiak, got some blocking and ran a kickoff back 60 yards. A few plays later Carolina had a touchdown. At halftime the score was 13-13, and Enright began to believe in miracles. As his boys ran in & out of the game they told him: "Coach, they're wilting...
Both clubs desperately needed a win. It served as a tremendous shot in the arm to the Harvards, even though their performance against an inferior football team was nowhere near perfection. As for Holy Cross' dentist-coach Bill Osmanski, he must keep trying to produce what Art Valpey has just achieved--a first victory...
...Coach Bill Osmanski is proceeding, after a fashion, through his second season at Worcester with a typical Holy Cross team--as far as the line goes. It is big, heavy, and slow, and opponents have been making merry with it all fall...