Word: coachly
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During the Harvard women's soccer team's dual match against the University of Massachusetts a month ago, Crimson coach Bob Scalise looked a little anxious when Minuteman halfback Patricia Mattoon cleared the ball from her zone. As the UMass bench began to cheer for their teammate shouting her nickname, "Toona-Toona-Toona," Scalise turned to his assistant coach and said, "I should make Sara Fischer cover that halfback so we'd have "Toona-Fisch...
...What an effort those guys made," coach Bill McCurdy said. "We made it with guys that were nowhere around at the beginning of the season. This is just a bunch of guys that are going to try for it even if they have no business doing...
...just two seconds left in the game, and the ensuing missed try for two points, mattered little as Harvard's second-and third-line players finished out the win in comfortable style. THE NOTEBOOK: After the game, Restic and Crimson captain Mike Brown presented the game ball to Penn coach Harry Gamble, in honor of his team's spirited fight down to the wire despite its dismal record and huge deficit...
...arrival this year with an unbroken string of victories that has carried the Buckeyes to top-five ranking in both the A.P. and U.P.I, football polls. In the process, he has healed the ugly divisions on and off campus that followed Woody Hayes' ouster as head coach last January after Hayes slugged a Clemson player during the closing minutes of the Gator Bowl. If Ohio State can get by Iowa and Archrival Michigan in its final two games, Bruce could finish his first year in Hayes' shoes with a Big Ten title and a trip to the Rose...
...former Ohio State halfback, head coach at Iowa State (1973 to 1978) and a Hayes assistant for six years, Bruce relished the challenge of replacing his mentor. "It's a dream come true," he said. Though he is laboring almost literally in Hayes' shadow-the former coach, now writing a book, has an office in a building down the block from Bruce's headquarters-Bruce has retained just two of Hayes' eight assistants and has overhauled Ohio State's antique offensive tactics. When he was at Iowa State, his teams were noted for passing...