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Cradle of Coaches Presentation Tour

In order to promote our collections here at the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, we are doing a presentation tour of the Cradle of Coaches Collection.  In the fall semester of 2013 we mounted an exhibit to promote and share our

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From the Stacks: The Cradle of Coaches and Sid Gillman

Sid Gillman is considered by many to be the “Father of the Passing Game.”  While Gillman did not invent the forward pass, his views and concepts were years ahead of his time.  The principles used by Gillman are still in

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From the Stacks: Weeb Ewbank and the Cradle of Coaches

Weeb Ewbank was an NFL head coach for the Baltimore Colts (1954-1962) and the New York Jets (1963-1973), and was inducted into the  NFL Hall of Fame in 1978.  However, before he was a coach, Weeb was an athlete here

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