The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-09
VIR GINIA HAS COACH OF THE. WEEK SAYS U. P.
 
Frank Murray Given Great But Merited Praise After
 Win Over Yale
BY HENRY SUPER United Press Stan COrrespondent)

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 New York, Oct. 9-(UP)-He nev- CT played football in his life but he teaches it so well he was good enough to score one of the Great upsets of the 1940 season last Sat- urday so the United Press today nominates as the coach of the week:
 Francis Joseph Murray of the University of Virginia!
 When Francis Joseph led his team into the Yale Bowl there was hard- ly a customer in the house who gave Virginia chance but the Cavaliers filled the air with passes, won the 1914 and gave Murray one of the great thrills of a lifetime.
 On the trip back to Virginia, Mur- ray amused his players by purchas- ing more newspapers giving ac- counts of the game than he could carry. He was proud man because he had invaded his native New Eng land and handed Yale it's first de- feat by Virginia since 1916.
 Very few of you perhaps remem- Der the name Murray. But think back couple years when Marquette was one of the great teams in the land mad went to the cotton bowl in 1937-when, the golden avalanche featured one of the trickiest, vide open attacks ever seen. Murray was the coach responsible.
 The following year he moved to Virginia and most of the football world forgot about Francis Joseph. He worked hard building team and this year made good again. just as he always has been doing.
 Ex-Newspaperman
 Murray, s Soft-spoken man of 53 who wears glasses, is unique among successful coaches because he never played football himself. After graduating from Tufts in 1908, he became a newspaper reporter on the Springfield (Mass.,) Republican. He did some graduate work in political Science at Harvard and University of Chicago. In his college days he was a great baseball and basketball player and was interested in foot ball-but he was too small to play.
 Some years later, when he be- came a high school coach in Mill waukee, he discovered to his sur- prise he was expected to coach foot- bal. He was SO good at it that in 1922 he became assistant football coach at Marquette in addition to being a professor of economics. In 1929, he became head football coach at Marquette and later on advanced to the rank of Professor of Gov ernment.
 Chuck -A-Luck
 His Marquette teams won 93 games, lost 29 and tied six agianst major competition. Murray's system then-and now-was to play wide open football He borrowed from every system in the land and put together what he called Chuck A-Luck" system-strictly gambling.
 Against Yale he used flanker players with a wingback wide out side end-an unorthodox but highly successful formation. Greasy Neale, assistant Yale coach who coached Virginia in 1923-28, had high praise for the formation which licked his team.
 Murray is quiet, soft-spoken. He is the father of two boys. One broke his leg playing football this season for Charlottesville high school.
 Despite his years in the midwest, Murray, a native of Maynard, Mass, still retains his Boston accent. The story they still tell baout him at Marquette concerns the day Mur- ray arrived ard looked for a house to live in. The real estate broker, extolling the houses fine points, said:
 Now here is a house without a flaw"
 My goodness" said Murray, What do they use to walk on?"