Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Park likes to think of his players as brothers. "I'll ride on them," he said, "but no one else will." He never criticizes a player publically...
...Park explained his coaching philosophy a few days ago. Sitting in the bleachers of the IAB swimming pool to avoid notice--his baseball appointment had not yet been announced--he listed four requirements for a successful coach...
Second, he said, the coach must "instill in the team a desire to excell." "Winning may not be everything, but trying to win--well, that's life." Third, Park works on the individual. "The successful athlete--whether varsity or intramural--must have a desire to develop constantly his individual skills...
...defensive backfield coach Park has developed an incredibly close relationship with those four or five men who guard Harvard's airways. One of them said yesterday, "Loyal has changed me personally. Confidence and pride just flow out of him, and into us. He molds a real esprit de corps. He puts on terrific pressure during practice, but that makes the games all the easier. And you always know that, when you make a mistake, he'll be there to boost you up and tell you immediately how to correct it. He's the greatest coach I've ever...
Like most Harvard coaches, Park has already acquired a feeling for the "correct" attitude toward sports. It's not that I don't like to win, but there are some coaches who, when they tell you how sincere they are about athletics being secondary to academics, are really talking out of both sides of their mouths," he said...