Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stadium one night last week, a somber figure watched unobtrusively from a mezzanine seat. For the first time in 22 years, 47-year-old Frank Boucher was neither in a Ranger uniform nor on the Ranger bench. Boucher, one of hockey's greatest centers, had stepped down as coach of the last-place Rangers, though he would continue as manager. In his spot on the bench sat a big handsome blond in a polo coat, a member of hockey's first family...
...coach, gum-chomping, 36-year-old Lynn Patrick, who had been managing a Ranger farm team, the New Haven Ramblers, had not seen the Rangers play all season. At the final buzzer, he was wringing wet and shaking from tension. Said he: "I've never wanted to win a game so much in my life." The Rangers cooperated by handing the Black Hawks their first defeat in five games...
...boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying to get by on his name: his father, Lester Patrick, one of the patron saints of professional hockey and the hero of one of its finest hours,* was manager-coach of the Rangers...
...outs with papa Patrick. As vice president and a substantial stockholder in the Garden (which owns the Rangers), Lester Patrick was obviously in a position to make it tough for Boucher. But Boucher insisted that the change was his idea, not Lester Patrick's. The job of manager-coach was just too big for one man (all the other clubs have split it up). The Rangers now have eight farm clubs and 284 players, and Boucher wanted time to scout them for new talent. Son Lynn Patrick was not even sure that his father approved of his promotion...
...Cleveland, the season's smallest crowd (22,981) braved another snowfall to watch the Buffalo Bills battle the Cleveland Browns for the All-America Football Conference championship. It wasn't much of a battle. Coach Paul Brown's Browns didn't let a little snow get in the way of their march to an undefeated season. The Buffalo Bills were understandably reluctant to get in the way of 238-lb. Negro Fullback Marion Motley, hardest running back in pro football since Bronco Nagurski. Motley didn't get warmed up until the second half. Then...