Word: coachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Leahy, as pessimistic as ever, opened Notre Dame's spring football practice. "We'll have the worst team Notre Dame has ever had," moaned the coach of the mighty Irish, undefeated for three years. "We'll lose seven games...
...senior this year (he is a Navy veteran), Wally wears his swimming fame lightly, but diligently grinds through 2,000 yards of daily practice. Iowa Coach David Armbruster says his star pupil has "a natural, aggressive heart," and better yet, "horses under the hood." Wally's own formula, he says, is knowing when to pull out when other swimmers are relaxing, and "usually that's enough to sneak me in." Swimming that way, he managed to sneak in ahead of ex-Yaleman Alan Ford at London last year; but he has yet, swimming that way, to sneak inside...
...varsity tennis team returned from its southern tour with a win, a loss, and a tie, and Coach Jack Barnaby is pleased with the results. The Crimson lost to North Carolina, 7 to 2, drew Navy in an unfinished match, and trimmed Army, 5 to 4, to conclude the tour...
...Harvard Rugby Club, with the experience of an informal game against MIT behind it, flew down to sunny Bermuda for the vacation and for the annual Rugby Week there. Coach Ed Callanan's forces still had a chance to tie Yale for the Big Three championship, with outcome of its game yesterday against Princeton still in doubt...
Three first loss, came to Coach Munro's team at Philadelphia last Monday, when Penn won out in an extremely tight game...