Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Warner, Sutherland,
Dobie Prominent
Among Movers
List Of Those Losing
Jobs Not as Greet
As in Late Years
BY DILLON GRAHAM,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

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Gil Dobie, Glenn (Pop) Warner and
John Balm Jock) Sutherland
were the most prominent of host
of college gridiron coaches who
either moved out of the football
picture altogether after last sea-
sons warfare or switched to- more
congenial surroundings.
The post-season purge caught up
with mentors in every major confer
ence except the Southwest. where
the slam bang, shoot-the- works
style of play makes coaching job
perhaps more precarious than any,
where else. The casualty list wasn't
as heavy as in recent years, but
more than a score of big time in
structors packed their bags.
Warner, who resigned at Temple
University, is an advisory coach at
San Jose State College in California,
but Doble and Sutherland are miss
ing from the pigskin scene. Fred
Swan. IN assistant, took over the
reinS at Temple.
Too Strenuous for Pop.
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 q
single error may spell disaster.
Dobie, the Gloomy Gill who pro-
duced some of the best teams the
Nation ever has seen, quit at Boston
College. Frank Leahy, a former
Fordham assistant, succeeded him
Doby'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 has been brewing for sew
eral seasons at Pittsburgh, where
there wasn't any TOO much harmony
among athletic staff officials. And
Sutherland, whose Painters always
stood high among Eastern teams,
finally decided to leave. He was
succeeded by Charles w. Bowser.
Spaulding Is Promoted.
Bill Spaulding, who directed the
Uclans OF the University of Califor-
nia at Los Angeles for more than a
decade, moved upstairs to the ath-
letlc dictatorship, and Babe Horrell,
an assistant and former star center
at California, took charge on the
field. A former high school coach,
John tPuggy) Hunton, was named
head coach at Gonzaga
There were two switches in the
Southeastern Conference. Wallace
Butts replaced Joel Hunt at Georgia
and Allyn McKeen succeeded Emer-
son (Spike) Nelson at Mississippi
State. McKeen coached last sea-
sons unheaten West Tennessee
Teachers team. Hunt caught on at
Wyoming. Nelson will coach Yale's
line this fall
Navy. after several mediocre sea-
sons under Hank HardWick, turned
to the marines for help and signed
Capt. Emery (Swede) Larsen. John
P. little Clipper Smith resigned at
Duquesne and Aldo Buff Donelli,
an assistant, took hold.
Riley Smith to Generals.
Carl Voyles, for several years Wal
lace Wades aide at Duke, moved to
William and Mary to replace Branch
Bocock Riley Smith, former ALL
America quarterback at Alabama
and more recently pro star with
the Washington Redskins, quit the
salaried game to coach the backs at
Washington and Lee.
Dr. 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.
AID Lindsey quit at Kansas and
Gwinn Henry, the schools athletic
director, took over the football
coaching. Vic Hurt resigned at
Tulsa to become a Kansas assistant
and his aide, Chef Benefiel, got the
assignment at Tulsa. Jim Looka-
baugh, Capitol High School coach in
Oklahoma City. took Ted Cox's job
at Oklahoma A. & M. when Cox
went to Louisiana State as an
assistant.
Arizona and Denver also have new
mentors. Clyde w. (Cac) Hubbard
will run the show at Denver while
Miles mike Casteel. formerly
Michigan State assistant, will COM
mand at Arizona.