Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ritual that is bizarre even by baseball standards. Decked out in the same Levi's and black-and-white shirt, he stops on his way to the park for a cup of coffee with a friend. He insists on draping a towel around the neck of Pitching Coach Mel Wright. And then, when his team is at bat, he sits on the same towel on the same spot in the dugout...
...smallish (pop. 83,000) blue-collar town 25 miles northwest of Detroit, Pontiac, Mich., houses an assembly plant of the General Motors truck and coach division, one of the nation's largest school bus manufacturers. One of the first Northern cities to carry out court-ordered desegregation, in 1971, Pontiac also became one of the first flash points of busing violence. White mothers chained themselves to block school buses. Six Ku Klux Klan members threw fire bombs. One woman even expressed her outrage by walking 620 miles to complain to Congressmen in Washington...
...amazes me. She's such an exceptional athlete," Scalise said in an interview last year. "She's very gifted and fast. She's determined. She does what is very difficult for a coach to get than straight-up set blocking, to hold off the opposition...
...much for the fantasy minute. Back in the real world, Harvard's chance for such glorious football is remote. When a head coach tells you, "Our greatest strength is our enthusiasm," you know there are problems. And Joe Restic must be suffering from insomnia while trying to keep straight all the troubles his young, inexperienced charges are facing in preparation for the 1979 campaign...
...Terry Trusty and adjuster John Casto. Loss of Steve Potysman and Fred Cordova at the corneres leaves a vacancy outside. Kicking game Senior Duke Millard and sophomore Steve Flach should handle the punting chores. No returning varsity kickers and NO placekickers at all presents Harvard with its gravest problem. Coach Joe Restic needs ANYBODY who can handle field goals, extra points and kickoffs. Overall A close-knit, high-spirited team with a fairly solid defense. Small size, severe depth problems, a lack of experience, no kicking game and many holes to fill. The coaches are unsure if the team will...