Word: jeez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember coach Cleary, our chaperone, always putting in a kind word about his charges, yet staying realistic. He knew their unfaithful ways. He consoled me, time and again--"Jeez, they're young, they've got to learn...
...disallowed red-lighters, a couple of muffed breakaways, and three third-period power-plays notwithstanding, it didn't happen. And--one more time--Billy Cleary repeated the now-familiar litany: "Jeez, the boys played well after the first period, and we had plenty of chances, but we just missed our opportunities. The name of the game is putting the puck in the net, and that's what we have...
...action hadn't ended. Seconds later, Mitch Olson slammed a drive off the same post, and then with ten seconds to go, Mike Watson broke free all alone, shot wide, recovered behind the net and (gasp) clanged it against the other post. Cleary: "Jeez, we just can't buy a goal...
Other coaches, says Cleary, "want just twenty hockey players but no more," but to him victory alone is not the purpose of athletics. "Jeez," he says, shaking his head, "this is intercollegiate athletics...