Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trim little (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.) blonde, Marilyn does not have the strength for a big game, relies instead on steady retrieving to force her opponent into errors. Under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Bartlett, she has learned to keep her returns deep to prevent men from charging the net. Says Teammate Wirt Gammon Jr.: "Marilyn may not be the best in the world at putting the ball away, but she just keeps hitting it back, hitting it back...
Holy Cross coach Jack Barry, saving his two first line hurlers for Saturday, stubbornly refused to take out Malinowski who was singularly ineffective. He had an impressive windup but his invariable semi-fast ball was an easy target for the Crimson...
Pennsylvania coach Joe Burke called the Crimson crew "better than Yale the week before." An important object of Saturday's race is to choose seedings for next week's Eastern Sprints. On the basis of its decisive victory, the Crimson should be first...
...Yale coach Bob Giegengack was trying a daring gamble in the mile, sending his ace Ed Slowik, an 880 man, who had never before run the distance in competition, against the varsity's Dyke Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald. Benjamin led almost from the start, until in the final lap, when Eli Jim Wade passed Benjamin, only to be caught again 150 yards from the tape by both Benjamin and Fitzgerald. It semed as if the Yale gamble had failed, when Slowik came from no-where in the stretch to win by two yards in the meet record time...
Covering the one and five-sixteenth mile Henley course in a fast 6:33.4, the varsity whipped the Tiger eight by more than six seconds. The Yale boat was far behind in 6:50.0. From all indications, coach Laury Coolidge's crew seems headed for another triumph in the Henley Regatta...