Word: mccabe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson looked conspicuously better in the offensive workout against Ben McCabe's jayvees. The team made consistent gains, and looked especially sharp in its passing game...
...When McCabe received the call to Cambridge in August, he was confronted with a problem radically different from that facing his almost legendary predecessor, "Chief" Boston. While the Harlow system instituted the J. V. as a nearly independent team with a head coach and two aids, Valpey called for jayvees to act part of the time as guinea pigs for the varsity...
...McCabe believes that his jayvee team has a double purpose. First, it should provide all men who like to play football against outside schools; second, it should give the varsity as much help as it can without utterly ruining its intercollegiate record...
That much of their time was taken up working enemy offenses against the varsity, was clearly demonstrated in the early games of McCabe's first Harvard J. V. team Timing was off, and most players showed unfamiliarity with their assignments...
Saturday, the worm turned. Favored Brown toppled before a smoothly functioning J. V. machine, and the denizens of the Blood Pit could hold up their heads again. After two months, one-man-coaching-staff McCabe had brought his team into the win column without interrupting the system of cooperation with the varsity. As for Yale, "We'll do all right...