Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekend in the H-Y-P Goldthwait Cup regatta by the Crimson went on in the next to polish off six lightweight crews, including Harvard, in the Wright Cup races. This afternoon on Princeton's Lake Carnegic, the Crimson will be out to follow Nassau's example, and Coach Haines has gone to the trouble of switching strokes in an effort to succeed...
...freshman track team is in for another very close meet this afternoon when it travels north to take on Andover. "We'll have to clean up on the flat to beat 'em," freshman Coach Carl Olsen says, adding that the prepschoolersare strong in the weight events, the jumps and the hurdles...
...pick the man that can do this best, and once chosen, how do you train him? The job of finding eight men who together will combine the greatest strength with the greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
...riverside spectator, watching a crew race means listening to a loudspeaker for eight minutes and then watching the last two hundred yards of a race; for the coach, it means following directly behind one's pupils, anxiously peering at a stopwatch and observing with horror that Number Three is a little late on his catch...
...Coach Dick Merryman experimented liberally against the inexperience Tufts squad, putting every man into the game and trying a couple of men at positions they do not ordinarily play...