Word: mccabe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCabe played first string tailback and quarterbacked the team. In his last two years, he was picked as All-North Central Conference halfback. But four years after he had entered Iowa Teachers, Ben had still two terms to go; he was forced to drop out during two spring terms to earn more college money. He got one term in in the fall of 1941. He was drafted in January...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...
...back in Paris and playing wingback for an army team in the service football ranks. His outfit piled up an impressive seven and one record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas...
...McCabe found one as coach of all sports at Manchester High, Manchester, Mich., a town 18 miles from Ann Arbor. In 1947 Ben never missed a Wolverine home game; afterwards, he saw the movies and talked with Valpey...
...result of his research, McCabe succeeded in adapting the Michigan single wing to high school footbal. He simplified it, for example, by making all spins, full spins, and using only the basic plays. He found that without long hours of practice that are impossible in high schools, half a dozen men handling the ball merely increased the possibility of fumbling without conspicuously adding to the deception. Despite waves of injuries to his 25 football candidates, his team came second in the league...