The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-20
new COACHES
TAKING POSTS
FOR FOOTBALL
Many Changes N a de for
Coming Sedson-0Id-
timers Are Gone
BY DILLON GRAHAM
Sports Editor, AP Feature Service

Three veteran Eastern tutorS-Gil
Dobie, Glenn (Pop) Warner and
John Balm (Jock) Sutherland-were
the most prominent of host of col
lege gridlron coaches who either
moved out of the football picture al
together after last seasons warfare
or switched to more congenial sur
roundingS.
The poSt-seaSon purge caught ur
with mentors in every major con-
ference except the Southwest, where
the slam-bang, shoot the works
style of play makes coaching jot
perhaps more precarious than any
where else. The casualty list wasn't
as heavy as in recent years but more
than score of big-time instructors
packed their bags.
Warner, who resigned at Temple
University, is an advisory coach at
San Jose State College in Califor-
MIA, but Dobie and Sutherland are
missing from the pigskin scene. Fred
Swan, an assistant took over the
reins at Temple.
Pop, who began coaching at
Georgia away back in 1895 and then
moved to Iowa State, Cornell, Car
Isle, Pittsburgh. Stanford and Tenn
pie, found the duties of major col
lege coach too strenuous for an old
man. He yearned for the milder
California climate, too, and for a
chance to try out some of his grid
iron theories in league where the
competition isn't so fierce that a
single error may spell disaster
GLOOMY Cir Gone
Dobie, the Gloomy Gill; who pro-
duced some of the best teams the
nation has ever seen, quit at Boston
College. Frank Leahy, a former
Fordham assistant, succeeded him
Dobie's coaching trail had carried
him to the University of Washing
ton. Navy, and Cornell before he
took over at Boston several years
ago.
Trouble had been brewing for sew
eral seasons at Pittsburgh where
there wasn't any too much harmony
among athletic staff officials. Anc
Sutherland, whose Panthers always
stood high among Eastern teams
finally decided to leave. He was sue
ceeded by Charles w. Bowser.
Bill Spaulding, who directed the
Uclans of the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles for more
than a decade, moved upstairs to
the athletic dictatorship and Babe
Horrell an assistant and former
star center at California, took charge
on the field. A former high school
coach, John (Puggy) Hunton, was
named head coach at Gonzaga.
Marine to the Rescue
There were two switches in the
Southeastern Conference. Wallace
Butts replaced Joel Hunt at Geor-
"ia and hllvr McKeen succeeded
Emerson (Spike) Nelson at Missis-
fippi State. McKeen coached last
9ason's u beaten West Tennessee
Teachers team. Hunt caught on at
Wyoming. Nelson will coach Yale's
line this fall.
Navy. after several mediocre
seasons under Hank Hardwick
turned tn the Marines for help and
gree "a r-oarv fSwede) Lar
sen. John p. little Clipper Smith
resigned at Duquesne and Aldo
Buff Donelli, an assistant, took
hold.
Carl Voyles. for several years
Wallace Wade,s aid at Duke,
moved to William and Mary to re-
place Branch Bocock, Riley Smith,
former all-American quarterback at
Alabama and more recently a pro
star with the Washington Redskins,
quit the salaried game to coach the
backs at Washington and Lee.
DIR. Eddie Anderson, whose Holy
Cross teams have been a terror in
the East, took Greeley's advice and
went west. He followed Irl Tubbs
at the University of Iowa. Ander-
sons assistant. Joe Sheeketski
stepped up To the head mans job at
Holy Cross.
Ad Lindsey quit at Kansas and
Gwinn Henry, the schools athletic
director, took over the football
coaching. Vic Hurt resigned at Tulsa
to become Kansas assistant and
his aide, Chef Benefiel, got the as
signment at Tulsa. Jim Lookabaugh.
Capitol High School coach in Okla
homa City, took Ted Coxs job at