The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-26
Cougar Coach Is Not College Grad
Babe HoIIingbery Dubbed Many
Nicknamss by Western
Sports Editors
BY WILLIAM BRAUCHER
(NEA Service SpOrfs Edit0rl

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Eastern football enjoyed both =
treat and a backset when the Gallop-
ing Gaels Of st. Mary's, California,
crushed a mighty Fordham machine.
But that isn't all.
Another entertainment Of a SINH
lar nature, with every likelihood of
the accompanying backset, is in store
November 90, when the Cougars of
Washington State move in on Viii
lanova.
The Cougars happen to be the
football team that recently beat Cali
fornia, and California, strange as it
may seem, actually beat st. Mary's.
Not only did the Cougars beat Cali
fornia, but they met what some of
the California people recently re-
ferred to as 'the best professional
team in the country" Southern Cali
forpia, and sent the aforesaid team
home on the short end of a z to 6
score. The small item of beating
California and U. S. C. was accomp-
lished. on successive Saturdays. A.
D. 1880. It's pretty hard to believe,
but those are the cores the papers
carried. !,
The craving for conquest hasn't
been confined to California teams.
The Cougars have roamed up and
down the coast, taking them as they
came, including the University OF
Washington.
Hollingbery Is Not College Man
The full name of the coach of this
hogwild rev is Grin e. Felix-the-
Cat Eight-for-T Ten Babe Hollingbery.
Whenever the writer's along the
western jumping-off place happen
to have a stray nickname on their
hands, they fasten it to Hollingbery.
Or all the coaches on the coast,
Babe is the only young nan who
never had a chance because he never
went to college. Oregon has Doc
spears, Dartmouth; Washington has
Jimmy Phelan, Notre Dame; Oregon
State has Paul Schissler, Lombard
College; California has Nibs Price,
California; Southern California has
Howard Jones, Yale; University of
the City Of Los Angeles has Spauld-
ing, Wabash; Stanford has Pop War
ner, Cornell; Idaho has Leo Calland,
U. S. c.; Montana has Major Mil
burn, West Point. H~ollingbery is
Just a high school boy, trying to ges
along.
Manufactures Teams
The Babe used to manufacture
football teams on a mass production
basis. Back in 1920 in San Fran
cisco he was coaching three teams at
a time and operating a couple of bat
terry and gasoline service stations.
The three teams were the Lick-Wil-
merding High School, Bates Prep
School and the Olympic club. From
2 to 4 p. m., he coached Lick: from
. to 6. Bates, and from 6 to 8. the
Olympics.
Washington State became inter
ested in the young man when his
Olympics in 1925 beat the "wonder
team" that played as the California
varsity in 1925, after the Bears had
gone undefeated for four wears.
Earl V. Foster, graduate managers
OF the Cougars, recommended Hol-
lingbery. 5.
When ne was approached for the
job at Washington State, he asked
the committee who the Cougars
We're. please. and where Pullman.
Washington, was.
Newspapermen dubbed him Eight
for-Ten' because whenever he was
asked for 10 passes he sent eight.
Another time they hung the nick
name of "Felix-the-C Cat" on him be-
cause he used to wear a heavy over
coat at the games, fold his hands be-
hind his back and nervously stride
up and down in front of the bench.
They called him Babe" for the same
a they gave George Herman
Ruth that name.
Hollingbery, Nibs Price and Leo
Calland are the only westerners
coaching in the Pacific Coach Con-
ference.