Word: keogan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikan himself had thought of studying for the priesthood, but dropped the idea about the time he graduated from Chicago's Quigley Preparatory Seminary. The late Coach George Keogan of Notre Dame looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great...
...last game, with Notre Dame at South Bend Saturday, was the one all to win, being pitted against his former coach, George E. Keogan. Harvard led three times in the first half of this game and pulled up to within one point of the Irish in the second half when the score stood at 23 to 22 in the first eight minutes of play, but that was the end of the Crimson threat...
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