Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urge all Harvard alumni and undergraduates to give Coach Valpey their utmost cooperation, and help him by obtaining promising material for future years...
...League cellar. The man who covered himself with most glory: Yale's popular Negro captain and star halfback, Levi Jackson, who scored Yale's first two touchdowns. After Harvard was crushed, 29-6, Levi, with an assist from other players, toted Yale's 300-lb. Coach Herman Hickman off the field on his shoulders...
...were bracing to bid for the tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), rugged (252 lbs.) lad from Turtle Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though it were a sweepstakes winner, let out a happy bellow: "Hart!" Leon could sit back and watch the bids come...
...year-old Vaughn Monroe's outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
...fares, effective at month's end, will make many rail fares double competing bus fares. For the first time, railroad coach fares in many cases will be more than airline fares, e.g., New York-Cleveland: $19.33 by rail...