Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides Michigan football tricks, Coach Art Valpey brought along some Michigan collegianism. All season long, the Harvard boys had whooped it up-and still had plenty left for Yale, the arch-enemy (Princeton, which has beaten both Harvard and Yale this season, came second...
...campus rally last week, California's Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf said he'd settle for a one-point victory. Some of the fans were sure that Pappy was just having his little joke. True, Stanford was the traditional big rival, but Stanford had been beaten five times already this season...
...Golden Bears took the opening kickoff, and marched 59 yards down field to score. But after that the Bears began to play like cubs. They got fumbleitis: the ball squirted out of their hands five times. California was lucky to win, 7-6. Reminded of his one-point quip, Coach Waldorf mumbled: "This ought to teach me to keep my big mouth shut...
After his playing days were over, Wild Bill had become a coach; two years ago, he came back to his alma mater. By last week he had made a perfect record-19 uninterrupted defeats. Every time the word football came up, his friends thoughtfully changed the subject...
...anything, but this season, he confesses, he couldn't stop hoping. Wild Bill swears Tech should have won the Oberlin game. That was the weekend the whole squad got food poisoning and had to keep trotting off & on the field, compelled by a force stronger than a coach's will. Tech lost...