Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With lanky (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell mopping up the backboards, the Boston Celtics crushed the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games to win the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, justify the claim of winning Coach Red Auerbach that they were "the greatest team in the history of the sport...
...Sudden as a quick kick, smiling Eddie Erdelatz quit as Navy's football coach after futilely protesting the number of restrictions on his team (e.g., the cancellation of special pre-term classes). He left behind a sparkling nine-year record of 50 wins v. 26 defeats, and a scramble for one of the game's best jobs...
...doubles coach Jack Barnaby rested his first pair, Weld and Bowditch, and moved Lemann and Bill Wood--the new second team--up to number one. After a shaky start, they beat Fisher and O'Connell, 6-4, 6-1. Gallwey and Vinton, playing second, routed Sager and Bob Chelberg, 6-1, 6-0, and Pete Smith and Bob Schwartzman, at number three, completed the shutout with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Hubbard and Yelverton...
...auspicious beginning for coach Larry Coolidge, Crimson crews won all except the first freshman race in the five-event regatta. By far the closest and most exciting race of the afternoon was the J.V. victory, won by a scant four feet...
...crossed the line, Gordon threw the baton high into the stands. Ten steps later, he was mobbed by his teammates. In seconds he and coach Bill McCurdy were receiving a free ride to the dressing room to the accompaniment of "Harvardiana." It was a fitting ending to a great...