The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
COACHING RUM0RS
BUZZ AT SESSION
Carolina Mentor Among Sew
eral Named As Possible
Successor To Schmidt
BY SID FEEDER

rumors about which coach is going
to land where-incl1ding n thai
Francis Schmidt would return t.
the southwest-the c%ountry's col
legiate athletic heads started thei1
official business today, with ma
tional defense as the theme.
For most of the day, delegates
to the Football Coaches associa'
ton and National Collegiate Ath'
letic association convention heard
speeches about how collegiate ath'
letics can help national defense
Then they received an official sta
tistical report of 1910 football cas-
ualties which tended to show the
gridiron game is becoming safer
for players all the time.
But mostly, the delegates JUS
buzzed about the various coaching
vacancies. And the latest whisper
to 60 around the corridors was
that Schmidt. late of Ohio State,
was about to return to the area Of
his first coaching triumphs, either
at Tulsa or Arkansas. This re
port, entirely unconfirmed, saic
(1) that Schmidt S definitely
slated for Tulsa or (2) that FREQ
Thomson was about to switch from
Arkansas to Tulsa, and Schmidt
would succeed him as head mar
of the Razorbacks.
Schmidt formerly coached a
both schools.
At the same time, several new
names appeared in the Ohio State
sweepstakes, although it still was
an open secret that young Pau.
Brown, whose Massilon (Ohio)
high school teams have lost just
one game in their last 60 over a
seven-year stretch, has the inside
track to succeed Schmidt. How
ever, L. W. St. John, the Ohio
State athletic director. made dates
to interview Tiny Thornhill, onc'
Of Stanford; Benny Friedman, one
time great Michigan passer now
coaching City college of New York;
Dick Harlow of Harvard and Bear
Wolf of North Carolina. These
names thus were added to the
previously mentioned entries Of
Brown, Don Faurot of Missouri,
Alan Holman of Franklin and Mar.
shall, George Hauser, Minnesota
line coach, and Bunny Cakes, for.
mer Colorado mentor.
There was also word that Bill
Edwards, now in Texas with his
Western Reserve squad for G
Sun bowl game, was the No.
candidate to land at Marquette,
and that Paddy Driscoll, who left
Marquette, had turned down a one
year contract to coach Tulsa.
DR.. William Mather Lewis, La
fayette college president, made
the featured speech of the joint
session of the. two associations to
day, not only pleading for an ex'
pansion of collegiate physical edu
cation and training as a means tt
aid national defense. but also TAX
ing a few cracks at 1.-The evils" oil
over-emphasis" il. college football
Like DR.. Lewis, Bo McMillin, In
diana coach. and w. B. Owens Of
Stanford, NCAA president, called
for colleges to expand physical
training activities.
There were reports that fuss Nc
Loughry, for IS years coach al
Brown university, was definitely
slated for the Dartmouth vacancy
left when Red Blaik went to Army
a week ago, and that Yale was
ready to announce the retention oil
Raymond w. (Ducky) Pond.
The NCAA announced approved
dates and sites for its national
championships in 1871, headed by
the important track and field meet
at Stanford university June 20 and
81.
Dick Harlow of Harvard, report.
ing for the public relations COM
mittee, suggested continued efforts
to stop drinking at football games
and urged coaches to refuse te
make predictions" as a possible
means to cut down on gambling or
football. He also recommended a
uniform system of numbering play.
ers, zone of nine rules changes sug-
gested yesterday by the coaches
rules committee.
The ethics committee made its
report through Frank Murray. Vir.
ginia coach, and pointed out that
scouting standards between college
gridiron Stats have improved re.
markably and are now conducted
by gentlemen's agreements" The
quality of officiating also has i'm.
proved, it added.
"A. W. Marsh of Amherst, speak.
ing at a meeting of the NCAA small
college committee, urged that stu.
dents be guided to plan their own
programs, thus eliminating "regi-
mentation'' of standards and com.
pulsions, because many of our
controls of sports and of u activ-
tiles have been of the Fascist
type" I
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