Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained yesterday afternoon on the Business School soccer field just as hard as on the rest of Cambridge, but soccer practice went on nevertheless. Coach "Mac" MacDonald put his squad, somewhat abbreviated by the wet weather, through two hours of kicking practice and scrimmage...
First of the fall teams to open its schedule, the Varsity soccer eleven takes the Business School field this afternoon at 4 o'clock against a Worcester Polytechnic Institute squad which is something of an unknown quantify. After only a week of practice Coach Mac MacDonald feels he already has a better than average team worked up to open Crimson's first post-war formal soccer season...
Several potential starters were lost for this afternoon's game because they failed to report early enough in the week to be scheduled for the required H.A.A. athletic physical exams, but in spite of his handicap plenty of reserve strength will be available should MacDonald have to make many changes in his first team...
...know much about this WPI team," MacDonald said yesterday, "but they always have an experienced outfit so we will not have a first game pushover...
...news of the day came after practice, of course, when Cleo O'Donnell was re-elected to the captaincy he never served. Another announcement from the HAA disclosed that Torby MacDonald, '39 flash and captain and now in his last year in the Law School, will assist Henry Lamar as a backfield coach of the Freshman team; a George Hibbard, another former great, will also help with the Yardlings...