Word: connibear
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...saga of University of Washington, in which Harvard began a new chapter last week, started when famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie went to Washington as football coach in 1908. As trainer and rubber Coach Dobie had a onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost all U. S. eight...