Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Switches. At New Haven, where his Yale team bowed to Princeton last week, roly-poly Coach Herman Hickman complained: "The way the boys switch in & out, I spend half my time seeing if there are nine, twelve or 14 men in the game ... I need an assistant...
With unlimited substitutions, says Tennessee's Coach Bob Neyland, the game has become a "rat race." It is now possible for football specialists to leave college without ever having made a tackle, recovered an enemy fumble, or intercepted a pass. How do you pick All-Americas from such half-players? The best argument for free substitutions was that it gave more kids a chance to get into the game, and earn their letter...
...couldn't name any particularly outstanding Harvard player if I had to," Yale's Coach Herman Hickman said at the press conference after Saturday's game, "they're a team." He was right...
...hard for three periods that by the final quarter, the Elis were just getting knocked down like ducks. "I don't think our reserves were any stronger than theirs," he explained. "I think it was just a case of our hitting harder." O'Donnell added that he thought Coach Valpey "has been sensational" and that if Noonan hadn't been put out of commission in the first quarter Harvard might have won by three or four touchdowns. "Jimmy really found himself as a passer in the Brown game," Kenny pointed out, "and Saturday he might very well have played...
This much can be said. He gave Harvard football players a reason for winning--not for the name of Harvard (that had been tried by his predecessor), not for personal glory (he didn't expect to win enough games to make anyone an All-American), but for their coach, Art Valpey