Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epitome of a certain breed of winning football coach, a giant tending to paunch since his playing days, a man with a muscular glad-hand and sharp tongue, a celebrity of sorts who had had so much acclaim that he floated on an air of supreme self-confidence, certain that things would be fine-so long as he won. Once, when the student paper at his alma mater, North Carolina, took him to task for "playing to win and win alone," Big Jim Tatum replied: "Winning isn't the most important thing-it's the only thing...
...five left tackles-born to a merchant-banker-farmer of varying fortune in McColl, S.C., Tatum was sent to the University of North Carolina by an uncle, was rugged enough (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) to get an All-America mention or two in his senior year on Coach Carl Snavely's powerhouse. After graduating in 1935, Tatum signed on as Snavely's assistant, followed him to Cornell, and laid the foundations of a remarkable coaching career...
Navy T-Time. By 1942 he was head coach at North Carolina (5 wins, 2 defeats, 2 ties), soon went on to help the Navy with its Iowa Pre-Flight team. There, along with Bud Wilkinson, Tatum learned the secrets of the split-T offense from Head Coach Don Faurot, who had dreamed up the system at the University of Missouri. After the war, the big man with the bull-bellow voice lost no time building a football winner and a 'Gator Bowl victory at the University of Oklahoma. He was big time and growing bigger. When the University...
...Glory Days. At Maryland, Jim Tatum became the most successful major college coach in the game. Witty and winning, he was a tireless recruiter, prowling the hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia night after night for the agile, brawny kids he needed to make the split-T work. In nine years his teams won 73, lost only 15, tied 4, and went to five bowl games. In the glory days of 1953, while the stands chanted "We're number one!", Maryland was undefeated, was judged the national champion by wire-service polls, and Jim Tatum was coach...
...Truex managed to finish, and then they too went into that eerie dance of exhaustion. Both Americans were rushed to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Russian to his hotel room, and all three were given intravenous injections of water, salt, sugar and vitamins. Said U.S. Track Coach Frank Potts: "When you get American and Russian athletes together, nobody's kidding. Those boys were either going to win or bust a gut. They busted...