Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best crews that Tom Bolles ever coached clustered one day last week at the door of Harvard's boathouse. Said Coach Bolles, plopping a battered hat on his bald head: "It'll be rough when we get down to the basin, but the water may be like that at Syracuse...
...megaphone and watched every move of his long-legged crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters, the varsity shell barely nosed out the freshmen. The time was slow and Coach Bolles shook his head gloomily...
Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
...only change from the normal line up according to Corey Wynn, freshman coach, will be Marty Flugg, now playing number six singles and three doubles. His improvement during the last week has relegated John Tangen former number six singles player, to the position of alternate...
...Crimson is able to take 60 points against the powerhouse Yale track team in New Haven tomorrow Coach Jaakko Mikkola will be "proud of his boys...