Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson knows basketball and he knows how to teach it. He has the ability to spot at a glance the minor faults causing a player to miss his set shots or layups. Fundamentals play an important part in Wilson's style of play, but he believes in stressing them in scrimmages, not in numerous drills, which are dull, isolated parts of the game...
...factor boosting Wilson in the coaching field is his interest in the players and in their problems. Quiet and soft-spoken, he nonetheless gets to know his charges well and can often tell what personal problems may be harming the quality of an individual's play. One varsity player summed it up when he said, "Floyd is aware of many more things than coaches usually...
...player probably most responsible for Brown's successful season has been the 5'9" senior quarterback from Ambridge, Pa., Pete Kohut. Kohut, who rose from sophomore obscurity two years ago, to stardom last season, leads the League in total yardage with a total...
...other as they played, produced music that was perfect in balance, pure in articulation and movement. It sounded as if the Old Sorcerer were there on the podium. When the concert was done, the audience broke into an ovation that Toscanini himself had not often heard. Explained a bass player: "We learned from Toscanini to honor the will of the composer. We simply paid closer attention to the score. When it said pianissimo, we played pianissimo...
...Session with Brubeck. Brubeck bends his lanky torso over the keys, concentrating like a child on a jigsaw puzzle, but his eyes are closed. The other members of the quartet-Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, Drummer Joe Dodge and Bass Player Bob Bates-go to work. Desmond's tones are plaintive and pure, the rhythm of drum and bass is as rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close...