The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-15
Dr. Eddie Anderson Nominated Best Coach of the Week
BY STEVE SNYDER United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent ]
 Chicago, Nov. 15.-(UP)-He was criticized sharply, even by his friends, for quitting a coach's par. adise at Holy Cross to drum foot ball sense into those 20 corn-fed boys at Iowa. But how he drummed 1t!
 The United Press nominates as coach of the week.
 Dr. Eddie Anderson of Iowa.
 Out of nowhere came Iowa's hand full of heroes to win three of its first four Big Ten games and then the climaX-vtctory over Notre Dame. The Notre Dame team hailed as the best in eight years lost the type of contest 1t had been winning all season long, by one point to an alert, aggressive team of op- portunists. The score: Iowa ', No- Ire Dame 6.
 To Eddie Anderson, the victories are vindication of the toughest choice coach ever has made.
 Tough Task
 The slim. tense former Notre Dame All-American had a perfect setup at Holy Cross. His teams were winners. He was head of the eye and ear clinic Of the Veterans hospital in Boston an ideal spot to pursue his study of medicine Tn contrast, Iowa offered him an op- portunity to coach Big Ten squad weak in manpower, with slim pros- poets and a reputation of being a graveyard" for football coaches.
 The squad was weak in nanpower but. long on fight and brains. It took to the unfamiliar Notre Dame system with vengeance and mas tered 1t in two weeks. To thus plucky squad-no more than IS strong in its last two games-its vic- tories are not upsets.
 Anderson is a native 1owan, born at Oskaloosa. Nov. l3, 1900. He played end at Notre Dame for four years starting in 1918 when the freshman rule was waived during the war. He began coaching at Dubuque. Ia, in 1922, went to De- paul of Chicago in 1925 and coached while studying for a legree in medi- cine. Moving to Holy Cross in 1883 he began to pile up his total of 47 victories, seven defeats and four ties. During 1895 and 1887 his teams were unbeaten. He is mar ried, and father of three sons.
 Football and medicine take up so much of his time he can't play much golf although Assistant Coach Frank Corideo insists he could De a whiZ.
 On Their Toes
 Faced with lack of reserve strength, he stressed physical con- dition from the opening night of practice and thereafter ran the legs off his player. For a missed signal: Once around the quarter mile track at toup speed. If a player needs Q drink during practice: Run to the fountain and run back
 Thus, his iron men grow stronger. A total of IA played against Purdue, Is beat Notre Dame. Nile Kinnick his candidate for All-America, has played 60 minutes of halfback in each of five games.
 Anderson stresses smartneSs and his sophomore quarterback, Al Cou- pee, staged what he calls "the fin- est bit of signal calling I've ever seen" to down the Irish. Tn the pinch on Notre Danes four yard line. Coupee invented a touchdown play and called it over protests of Kinnick and teams Captain. Erwin Prasse. He shifted Kinnick from left to righ halfback and shot him over Notre Danes left tackle.
 Kinnick. once through the hole stood for a moment in the Notre Dame end zone as if he didn't be- lief it himself.