The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-09-05

These famous mentors will not
only write automatically and enter
tainingly of the game in their re-
spective sections, but will COM
ment on national developments as
well.
Bernard William Bierman,
self possessed and soft-spoken
man with laughing eyes, guided
what generally was conceded to
have been one of the finest college
arrays in history at Minnesota last
autumn.
II such a thing as national
championship can be decided, the
Gophers won it with their smash
ing victory over Pittsburgh, rated
the best in the east, and with
clean sweep in the highly formid-
able Western Conference.
Bierman took his place among
the coaching greats before return
ing to Minnesota in 1882. His
Tulane teams were unconquered
by a Southern Conference outfit in
three seasons, and prospects were
bright for another strong COM
bination when he turned the New
Orleans post over to his line
coach, Ted Cox.
When Bierman Talks
Other Coaches Listen
One of the finest halfbacks ever
to wear the Maroon and Gold,
Bierman captained the 1915 Min
hesota team under the late and la
mented DR.. Henry l.. Williams
which shared the Big Ten cham
pionship with Illinois.
Bierman made his bow as a
mentor at a Butte preparatory
school, where he also taught, and
remained there until America en-
tered the war, when he resigned to
enter the United States Marine
Corps. He left the service with a
captains commission.
herman served as head coach
of the University of Montana in
1019-20-21, and in between assign
ments at Tulane, acted in a similar
capacity for two years at Missis-
sippi A. and M.
When Bernie Bierman starts
talking at a meeting of coaches,
everybody listens.
! "AhhSoot" Ch6dbCo 4NOltH bd-
kota State, Nebraska, Tulane,
Northwestern, Purdue, Iowa,
Michigan, and Wisconsin, giving
Bierman ample opportunity to get
a good line on the game as it is
played in three sections other than
the Big Ten, the fast circuit In
which the Gophers play such an
important role.
Jock Sutherland, of the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, needs no intro
duction to Democrat readers. He
has written football for NEA Ser
vice, Inc, and this paper for three
years, and is one of the most wide
Unknown coaches in the nation.
His Painters always are a pow
er in the game, and several times
have gone west to play in the Rose
Bowl classic.
Jock was one of the greatest
linemen ever turned out by Pop
Warner when that noted gridiron
figure was coach at Pitt. Annual
ly he produces his share of ALL
American stars, among the recent
ones being Warren Heller, Mugsy
Skladany, lizzie Weinstock, George
Shotwell, Toby Uansa, and Doc
Hartwig.
The quiet dentist faces one of
the toughest. schedules in his ca
reer this season. meeting in sue
cession Waynesburg, w. and j.,
West Virginia, Notre Dame, Penn
State, Fordham, Army, Nebraska,
Carnegie Tech, and Southern
California.
McTIaughPy Knows His
New England Football
Covering New England is a Job
In which Tuss McLaughry is right
at home. The Brown coach took
his present position in 1925, after
leading little Amherst to the Little
Three title-Williams Amherst.
and Wesleyan-three times in five
years.
Everyone sympathized with Nc
Laughry, graduate of Westminster
College, of Fulton, Mo-, for the
Brown eleven of the year previous
had been beaten by Yale, Dart
mouth, Harvard, and Penn.
But before the year was over,
everyone was singing the praises
of his squad, the famous Brown
Iron Men," which went through
the season indicated, II men
playing through the victories over
Yale and Dartmouth.
Brown has been a power in the
east ever since, and this season
faces an impressive schedule i'm
GLIDING games with Rhode Island,
Springfield. Dartmouth. Syracuse.