The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-09-15
ABLE INSTRUCTION
FOR NEWBERRY TEAMS
Jimmie Driver to Coach Baseball
Football, Basketball and Track
at Lutheran College.

at Lutheran College.
The State.
Newberry, Sept. 12-Newberry COL
lege viii have the strvices of James
G. Driver next session as athletic di-
rector Mr.. Driver is will known in
the State having been similarly TIM
ployed at the University of South Car
olina during the sessions of 1911-12
and 1928. The Utica IN. W Her
ald-Dipatch Of Friday, September s,
ha the following to say Of Mr.. Driver:
Games Driver, well known through
out thi city as an athlete, will leavt
Saturday for Newberry, IS. c., where
he will become athletic and physical
director of Newberry college.
Driver will coach football, bas-
ketball, track and baeball, in turn.
and he will havt charge of the regu-
lar college gymnasium work. He
will have an assistant in the gymnas-
Suu and an assistant as football
coach. He will enter Newberry with
the full rank Of professor and will
'oA paid by the college, instead Of the
intitution's athletic association as is
usually the case.
Driver is a graduate OF William
and Mary College at Williamsburg,
Va, the seer nd oldest college in the
United States. and at that institution
he accomplished feat no man before
nor since ever has accomplished III
college athletics. In the seasons ex-
tending from 1909 to 1910, Driver was
captain of football, basketball, tracA
baseball The four captaincies came
to him as a result of outstanding ex-
cellence in al of these sports. He was
an all Southern hafback in football, a
sprinter on the track team and short
stop on the baseball team. After fin
ishing at William and Mary college,
ne attended the University of Virginia
for a year, taking special work.
While in Virginia he made his letter
footboll, basketball and baseball and
completed in three track meets under
Virginia 'scolors, but he failed to get
a track ''V.'' He was best known on
the gridiron and the diamond and had
it not been for parental objection, he
probably would be playing major
league bal today. Several major
league clubs sought HIS services when
he played with Virginia
following his work at Virginia. he
was appointed athletic and physical
director Of the University of South
Carolina at Columbia, S. c., and serv-
ed in that capacity from 1911 to 1918
After that he went to Whitesboro
to enter the employ Of Grand smith
& Co., and Locker, one of the largest
contracting firms in the United States
who are about finished with their
task of fulfilling the 100000 con-
tract to build the barge canal from
Rome to the Herkimer county line.
.sIWHile he has been located in this
section, Driver has played some foot
ball with various professional teams
He will be remembered by many as
the umpire of the Rome Free academy
Utica Free academy contest last
Thanksgiving day. In this city Driver
has made scores of friends, all OF
whom are confident that he will make
a big success of his new undertaking
although he leaves Utica next
Saturday, Driver will visit his parents
at his home near Richmond, Va, for
a few days before going to NeWberry'
He said today that he has ordered the
Newherry football squad to report a
week from Monday afternoon.
@When Jimmy Driver leaves town
Saturday to go to South Carolina to
become athletic and physical director
of Newberry college, it will be case
Of an almighty good fellow returning
to the land he loves and to the game
he loves. Born and raised in the
South, he believes beyond the shadow
of a doubt that "the angels made Old
Dixie He told US last night: 10
awfully hate to think that 1 couldn {
spend my last days in Virginia.
~Jim's first work as athletic ano
physical director at Newberry Will
be TO coach the football team and
there is no doubt but that ne Will