Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepard came home in 1929 and started coaching again, teaching fast-break ball to southern teams until he wound up at Davidson College in North Carolina. It was here that the long frantic arm of H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 fell on his shoulder. "I was proud to get a chance to coach at Harvard," says Shepard. "You may not realize it now but back when I was playing, Harvard had an athletic reputation, too I haven't forgotten that...
...coach is also pretty proud of his executive officer. Shepard's assistant is a tall blond Dartmouth man called Floyd Wilson, who also has served a stretch in the Orient. He played basketball for Marine teams in China in 1945. His present job is to break Shepard into the intricacies of Eastern intercollegiate League Ball; in about two weeks Wilson will take over the freshman team. Shepard says "I needed someone who had played the northeastern circuit...
Shepard thinks his new team ought to do a little better than last year's three-up and 20-down wonders. He leans back, grins, and says "I might as well make the usual coach's comment. Things look encouraging." Shepard is going to teach his boys, the same fast-break type of ball he played himself; his schedule is a "reasonably tough...
House squad coaches again figure Kirkland House as the team to beat this year. The Deacons have practically the same flashy team which copped the league championship last year and then went on to beat Yale's Berkeley College. The Kirkland line averages just over 190 pounds, and the backfield features what it coach calls a "bunch of tricky passers...
This year's Bellboy squad is, according to its coach, the "best in a long time." With a huge line sparked by 60-minute men Tony Ripley, towering Dave Brisk and Ray Silver, the Lowell team is expected to give Kirkland a long fight for the title. Lowell is one of the few house teams running out of a T but expects to alternate this with the single-wing if its passing attack develops further...