Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Alfred Earle ("Greasy") Neale has no time for false modesty. He admits that his Philadelphia pro football Eagles are good-so good, he blandly says, that not a single member of Notre Dame's current glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League champions and are well on their way to repeating this season. This week, with a record of nine wins and one defeat, Greasy's nifty Eagles squared off against an old and bitter foe, the New York Giants...
...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
Navy's ball handling was fishy and competent. In contrast to Shepard's double pivot attack, Coach Ben Carmevale pan his team from 8 fast arias cross well out from the basket, taking advant age of both the spend and shooting of his captain, Dave Mullaney. Mullaney, who played for Holy Cross in an NCAA tournament two years age, was all over the court, leading Navy's scoring with 24 points...
Tonight Crimson coach John Chase will stick to his current starting lineup of Johnny Chase, goal; Jack Carman and Bill Allen, defense; and Myles Huntington. Dave Abbot, and Doug Anderson, forwards. The only squad change is that Duke Sedgwick will dress as fifth defenseman instead of the veteran Steve Howe...
Swimming before nearly 200 spectators. Coach Ulan's sea dogs placed first in six of the eight events. The alumni managed to eke out victories in the first and last events of the meet, the 150-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle relay...