Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess at the Window. For the first time since 1938, Parliament was opened with full-dress ceremonial. Red robes trimmed with white fur, cutaways, top hats and striped trousers were taken out of mothballs or rented at high prices. The Household Cavalry who would escort the royal coach got ready to don their plumed helmets and breastplates, white breeches, high black boots, red and blue tunics. The Imperial State Crown was taken from...
When the great day came Princess Elizabeth, expecting her child in mid-November, stayed behind at Buckingham Palace. She was looking out of a window when the Irish State Coach (built for Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin) left the palace gate. Londoners packed along the procession route stopped blowing their noses and forgot the biting October wind. A rustling murmur went up: "Here they come...
Notre Dame's fancy football team, on a 24-game undefeated streak, worked out last week in the ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. With doors locked, visitors excluded, and street shoes on their feet, halfbacks feinted & faked under the crystal chandeliers. Coach Frank Leahy was giving his new U-formation (with two quarterbacks squatting just behind the center) a final tune-up. Leahy, the perfectionist, wanted to be sure...
...being too good, 40-year-old Frank Leahy was coaching his unbeatable Irish right out of their schedule. First Illinois, then Army crossed Notre Dame off its list; Northwestern will next year. Stanford's coach, Marchy Schwartz, an alumnus of Notre Dame's great 1929-30 backfield, reportedly has vowed never to play Notre Dame again so long as Leahy is there. Perhaps the best reason Southern California still plays Leahy's superteam is economic: Notre Dame's magic name fills Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum...
Somewhat deflated by its unfortunate experience with Navy, the Varsity soccer team attempts to restore its early season etc this afternoon at Princeton. Last week's loss to Navy was the first in five games for the booters, but Coach Bruce Munro feels that today's contest with set the pattern for the rest of the schedule...