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Though formal football and the Yale game will wait until 1946, Harvard has regained the major part of its peacetime coaching staff. Coach Dick Harlow, back from three years of service as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy, will be assisted by Al McCoy, also back from service in the armed forces. Also helping out will be, of course, Floyd Stah! and Henry Lamar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Encounter Is Added to Autumn Gridiron Schedule | 9/21/1945 | See Source »

...next alert you get is likely to be the McCoy. ... It might knock out a high building or two. It might create a fire hazard. It would certainly cause casualties ... It could not seriously affect the progress of the war. But think what it would mean to Dr. Goebbels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Warning | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Time Out for Fighting. At the same rapid pace other fields began to appear on the rough, forbidding terrain of Saipan. Often the engineers, working within earshot of the Japs, had to take time out to fight. One day Lieut. Henry McCoy killed a sniper by running him down in a jeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASES: Flanders' Fields | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Naturalist. Near Camp McCoy, Wis., a Brooklyn G.I. returned to his company carrying a full-grown set of rattlesnake rattles, explained that he "got 'em off a big woim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Fresh out of Duke University in 1940, where he had been captain of the baseball team, Davis joined Connie Mack's club, but spent his first year behind $45,000 Benny McCoy, the A's widely publicized second sacker who had been obtained only the season before. Still, he managed to play thirty-five games with the Mackmen in '41, and he became a regular the next year, hitting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Crash' Davis, Ex-Duke Captain, Played Major League Baseball | 7/21/1944 | See Source »

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