Understanding Head Coaching in Sports Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in Marcel Bellefeuille's head coaching debut, wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez had 198 total yards to help Bellefeuille record his first win.

in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards.

during the 2001–02 season, Hibernian F.C. sacked manager Franck Sauzee just 69 days after he had been appointed.

prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee.

the inaugural inductees into the University of Connecticut Huskies of Honor included 23 basketball players and four head coaches, including Hall of Fame coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma.

when NCAA Division I basketball head coach John Beilein's son was a high school recruit, Beilein was restricted by NCAA rules from talking to him at a basketball camp.

there have been nine head coaches who have spent their entire National Hockey League head coaching careers with the Montreal Canadiens, a Canadian professional ice hockey franchise.

during his basketball career, John Hummer played for four head coaches who have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season.

Oklahoma Sooners football head coach Barry Switzer won eight consecutive Big Eight Conference college football championships in his first eight years with the 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980 teams.

Edmonton Eskimos head coach Richie Hall (pictured) is the first African-American head coach in Eskimos history.

Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team.

Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A.

Willie McCartney was listed by the Sunday Herald newspaper as the 22nd greatest Scottish football manager of all time, even though he never won a major trophy.

Mike Stock's only job as a head coach came near the middle of his 44-year American football coaching career.

American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams.

Understanding Head Coaching in Sports

1 One of the major features of ________ head coaching is the high turnover rate for jobs.

2 In ________, head coaches are often teachers who coach.

3 Head coaches in ________ have different responsibilities depending on what level of the sport they are coaching.

4 In some sports such as soccer and baseball, the head coach is usually called a manager, whilst in other sports such as ________ they are generally termed a senior coach.

5 Sometimes, the coach becomes a celebrity in his own right, e.g., ________.

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