Word: mccabe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCabe needs no consolation, for he is doing what he has always wanted to do. Ever since he was a high school student in Naperville, Illinois, he wanted to be a coach, and especially a football coach...
...evolution of a football coach is to learn to play football. By this yardstick Ben has a thorough grounding in fundamentals. He played two years in grammar school, and four in high school, the last two as varsity tailback. But when he graduated in June 1935, Ben McCabe weighed only 125 pounds...
...year and a half he worked--in the summer on construction jobs, in the winter in a furniture factory--all with two aims in mind, to gain enough weight to play college ball, and to earn enough money to pay his way through. In the fall of 1937, McCabe enrolled in Iowa State Teachers College. He weighed 160 pounds...
...McCabe's squad, which couldn't seem to do anything right in its last few games, couldn't do anything wrong against the baffled Bruins. They thoroughly outcharged the Brown forward wall during the first three quarters of the game, intercepted half a dozen misdirected Bruin passes, and tackled like men possessed...
Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...