Word: player
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When coach Bob Cousy decided to become player-coach Bob Cousy for the Cincinnati Royals in 1971, who did the Celtics get as compensation...
...years ago he struggles to fill out the application for admission to Harvard College. Now he is sending notes to the Admissions Office about a woman ice hockey player he is trying to recruit for the team he coaches. The athlete finds that he has picked up many habits of those who coached him. The style, the techniques, the sayings. And he finds he does the same things he said he'd never do if he were coach. And he finds that the players have plenty to say about him just as he had to say about his coaches...
...wanted to win, in the end, more than anything, and it was the flaw that ruined him. The denouement came on a Friday night in a meaningless bowl game. Coach Wayne Woodrow Hayes, 65, the autocrat of Ohio State football for 28 years, was fired after assaulting an opposing player. Sadly, the incident that ended his remarkable career in disgrace surprised virtually no one who was familiar with Woody. "Hayes had become a caricature of himself," said Max Brown, editor of the Columbus Monthly in the home city of Ohio State. "He was deteriorating in front of everyone...
Despite the absence of its top player, the Harvard women's squash team (6-0) reached back for that little bit extra and defeated nemesis Williams 5-2 Saturday in Williamstown...
With number one player Mike Desaulniers and number four man George Bell sidelined due to ankle injuries, the Crimson had a tougher time with the Ephmen than expected. Crimson captain John Havens played well at the number one slot, despite a painful elbow injury, taking Williams senior Martin Goldberg to five games, before falling...