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Article: 75 years: the publisher looks back.(Scholastic Coach)
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- Coach and Athletic Director
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- October 1, 2006
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I love magazines. All kinds of magazines. This one especially--for lots of great reasons. I remember discovering Scholastic Coach in the stacks at McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland forty-some years ago. I recognized Herman L. Masin's name immediately. He had written the sports columns I enjoyed in Senior Scholastic. Who knew that he also edited a magazine for coaches? What a find! Little did I know that I'd spend my entire professional life working with him.
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It turned out that Scholastic Coach was the brainchild of a future Hall of Fame football coach. Herb McCracken, who had played "Pop Warner football." Pop was his ...