The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-01-04
"Timmy" Buckley 3-Sport
Man at Eastern School
Proves Self Chip Off the Old
Block in Winning Letter
in Football.

Edward Jimmy buckley, hdINdIu
sophomore, appears to be well on ms
way to putting his home city in the big
time athletic spotlight. Winning let
ter in football, Buckley has been hold
ing down a guard position on the
varsity basketball team.
Home for a one-week Christmas va
cation. he left for the East, Friday, In
order to be on deck for the cage game
with the Army set for Saturday.
Buckley, who was a star athlete in
range prep circles before going to Har-
ward, inaugurated his college career by
doing something that no other fresh
man of the class of 1912 could match.
He won numerals in three major sports,
football, basketball and baseball, and he
seems destined to repeat the perfor-
nance by earning letters in the three
sports this year.
Young Ed seems to be chip off the
old block, for it was back in 1876
that Edward, ST., while member OF
the University of Minnesota football
team, set the pace for his son to follow.
The present director of athletics in
the Ely school system played end and
tackle along with such illuStriouS team
mates as Bernie Bierman, DR.. George
HauSer, and Bert BaSSett, who now
guide the destinieS of the university IS
team, Bierman as head coach, DR.
Hauser, line coach, and Bassett in
charge of the ends.
Buckley received letter in 1916, but
was cheated out of one the year pre-
ceding because Coach Henry L. Doc
Williams couldn't keep his mind on
the game.
1t was in the Wisconsin game, the
finale of the season, as Ed recalls it.
that four players, including himself
were to be used enough so that they
could receive their MS" At the start
of the second half, the stands collapsed
and DR.. williams got so excited that he
forgot to put in any substitutes AS a
result, the four, anxiously sitting on
the edge of the bench awaiting a call
were left out.
The 1876 University of Mime
the Big Nine = later enlarged to
include another school to become known
by it's present name, the Big Ten.
To get back to Edward, Jr., it's quite
uncommon for the son Of a noted foot
ball player to be a star in his own
right, enough so to obtain Jimmy
the headlines in big way after his
performance in the University of Chi
cago game, which Harvard took by a
top-heavy score.
Bordering the 6-foot mark and
weighing 1876 pounds, Jimmy" is one
of two members of the football squad
to make the basketball team
While Ely athletes have been quite
successful in making the teams Of
secondary schools, only a handful have
been fectured in big-time play.
A few years ago John Grahek played
end on washington States football
team, and was star pitcher on the
baseball team About the same time
Lowell Grease" Anderson was regu-
lar lineman on the football squad al
Drake University, Des Moines.
Leonard Klun and Walter Napps
made names for themselves as divers al
the University of Minnesota, and Joe
Grahek is in the process of doing just
that right now
Kun, Nappa and Grahek, along with
Joe Pucel, who won the midwest A. A
U. diving title but did not enter college
competition, were proteges of Max
Herseth, who retired last year as coach
here after marking up an enviable re-
cord
The other athletes, including young
Buckley, learned their fundamental
under the guidance of Edward, ST.
While it is unusual that son of g
football player should turn out to be a
gridiron star too, it unqueStionably is
still more uncommon that the father
should have served as his boys only
coach until the son entered college.