Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself for the clash of two football titans-Notre Dame v. Tulane. From his mourners' bench at South Bend, Ind., Coach Frank Leahy cried, "We'll be outweighed for the first time in two years." On the Tulane campus in New Orleans, where Coach Henry Frnka (pronounced franka) had been holding secret practice for weeks, there was impressive silence...
...yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which Yale won 33-7), Columbia Coach Lou Little found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away on his run, was sitting...
Anything the Dartmouths did, the Harvard band did better. The visitors marched onto Soldiers Field before the game started, spelling out the first names of the Indian coach, Tuss McLaughry, and the team captain, Herb Carey. So the Harvard band walked on and spelled out the names of both Art Valpey and the Indian mentor...
Pondering a bit after last Saturday's 31 to 6 loss to Holy Cross, Coach Henry Lamar of the Yardlings has shifted his backfield around a bit, and has decided to use a simpler series of plays...
...contest yesterday afternoon in Franklin Park as Dartmouth's cross-country team overwhelmed coach Jaakko Mikkola's varsity, 18 to 44. The Crimson freshmen also were beaten by the Green...