Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunch, he ambled out to Franklin Field, taking his seat in the press box (a location already arranged for by H.A.A. Business Manager Carroll Getchell) along with scouts from every other college Penn or Dartmouth was to play...
...coach is often the man nobody knows. His team is made up of players who cannot quite make the varsity, and his games cannot quite make the headlines. He has but one consolation--that his players play football merely because they enjoy the game...
First step in the 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 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...