Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCabe needs no consolation, for he is doing what he has always wanted to do. Ever since he was a high school student in Naperville, Illinois, he wanted to be a coach, and especially a football coach...
First step in the evolution of a football coach is to learn to play football. By this yardstick Ben has a thorough grounding in fundamentals. He played two years in grammar school, and four in high school, the last two as varsity tailback. But when he graduated in June 1935, Ben McCabe weighed only 125 pounds...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...
McCabe found one as coach of all sports at Manchester High, Manchester, Mich., a town 18 miles from Ann Arbor. In 1947 Ben never missed a Wolverine home game; afterwards, he saw the movies and talked with Valpey...
When McCabe received the call to Cambridge in August, he was confronted with a problem radically different from that facing his almost legendary predecessor, "Chief" Boston. While the Harlow system instituted the J. V. as a nearly independent team with a head coach and two aids, Valpey called for jayvees to act part of the time as guinea pigs for the varsity...