Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepard came home in 1929 and started coaching again, teaching fast-break ball to southern teams until he wound up at Davidson College in North Carolina. It was here that the long frantic arm of H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 fell on his shoulder. "I was proud to get a chance to coach at Harvard," says Shepard. "You may not realize it now but back when I was playing, Harvard had an athletic reputation, too I haven't forgotten that...
Shepard thinks his new team ought to do a little better than last year's three-up and 20-down wonders. He leans back, grins, and says "I might as well make the usual coach's comment. Things look encouraging." Shepard is going to teach his boys, the same fast-break type of ball he played himself; his schedule is a "reasonably tough...
...Reliable's long blast deep into the right field seats came with nobody out in the last of the ninth inning and a count of two balls. It was the fifth hit off the amazingly fast Newcombe, who struck out 11 Yankees, walked none...
Paired with Winthrop on opening day is a still-undermanned Dunster squad. The Funsters have lost most of last year's starters, and are relying heavily on a fast but untried backfield...
Question-mark team of the league is the Dudley outfit; the Commuters have a huge turnout for the practices, and their coach claims that his local boys "are taught some of the best football in the east." "Our squad is light," says the coach, "but they are fast and scrappy...