Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Yale point was tallied by manager Chuck Yeager, on a pass from quarterback Ed Molloy. Coach Jordan Oliver had slipped his little manager into the game for one play, and Yeager, wearing No. 99, went almost unnoticed as he caught the aerial on the one-yard line and went over for the score...
Many people thought the ultimate humiliation for Harvard had finally come. Crimson coach Lloyd Jordan said publicly only that "that sort of thing makes football," but insiders felt that he was less than pleased by the incident. Captain John Nichols was less reticent about his feelings, declaring, "Frankly I think it stinks." Mutterings about "good sportsmanship" echoed between Cambridge and New Haven for a few weeks before the matter slowly died...
From New Haven comes coach Jordan Olivar's boast that he has never sent a Yale team into a game in better shape. After five straight wins and a trouncing over Princeton, his team, an underdog two months ago, is now favored by most observers to beat the Crimson...
...Coach John Yovicsin will speak tonight to a pre-Yale game pep rally on the steps of Dillon Field House. The rally, to cheer the varsity football team on to victory over the Elis, will start about 6:45 p.m., when the team finishes its final home practice session. Highlighting the cheering will be the Band, which will play its repertoire of Harvard fight songs...
Sipping an all white ice cream soda in a campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...