"You're bumping like women! You ain't bumping like Roller Dames!" growled Phil "Big Daddy" Claeys as his dames bumped their way around the playground at Whittier Elementary School in Sioux City. "Hunnnhhh!" he bellowed with Marine Corps vigor after his players showed some improvement.
The coach, who took his name from former '50s football great Big Daddy Lipscomb -- Phil had the same number on his grade school jersey -- didn't want the job. He was just an organizer along with daughter Libby, now one of his top players; but he couldn't pass it up once the new league got off the ground.
And he seemed to know how to encourage his dames.
"You look like pretty ballerinas with tough clothes on," he yelled later as they moved sidways, heal-to-toe, back and forth across the playground in another exercise. "Stamina! Dexterity! Endurance!"
Sioux City Journal: Skaters hope derby will be a big hit 
Skaters hope derby will be a big hit 
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