Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timer Graham was looking for small-time football. "I want to win as much as anyone," he said. "I even want to beat my wife at croquet. But football should be fun-even for the coach. It may sound corny, but I believe that line about 'it doesn't matter who wins or loses-it's how you play the game...
Last week, as college football began across the nation, Coach Graham sent his lightweight Coast Guard team against the hard-nosed recruits of Geneva College (enrollment: 900) in Beaver Falls, Pa. It was no fun-especially for Otto Graham. Hands jammed deep into his pockets, chomping gum furiously, he writhed on the sidelines as Geneva toyed with his cadets. He bellowed frantic warnings ("Pass! It's a pass!"), once barked at officials ("Watch those off sides...
...Graham, do you coach that...
Final score: Geneva 35, Coast Guard 0. Coach Graham tried to take the debacle in stride; come what may, he is planning to spend the next 20 years at the academy, and the academy is planning to have him. "I'm not worried," said Graham in the dressing room after the game. "Did I seem worried? I wasn't a bit nervous...
...Coach John Yovicsin aptly summed up his feelings when he said "for a first ball game, our first two groups did as well as we expected." Charlie Ravenel sparked his team by producing the spectacular play at just the right moment--an opening 11-yard quarterback sneak, a pass to halfback Albie Cullen which set up the first touchdown, and an option play again to Cullen to set up the second score...