The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
BY JACK GUENTHER
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 New York, Nov. 2e-Up)--His players began the season earmarked for the cellar of the Southeastern Conference but they'll end 1t this week with a rouslng bid for a New Years Day bowl plum. The United Press presents as coach of the week
 Henry (Red) sandersfi the one. time bench warmer who has rs. vived Vanderbilt as . football power In Dixie.
 Red Sanders ie . iSB.pound all. around athlete who sat on the sldes lines three years during his college days and then waited B seasons for his big chance aB Q coach. Despite scarcity of material and the des featist complex which always sets in when team suffers It's worst year he has made good that first chance faster than he expected.
 Sanders first drew attention in Nashville ag Q skinny kid in . tat- terede crimson sweater who iugged football around the vacant lots of the east side. The sweater gave him his nlckname-"Red"-and it has followed him ever since; through an undistinguished football career at Vanderbilt IS years ago, through i've minor jobs, and now through what may prove the most successful Commodore season since the sport was introduced there in 1890,
 Has Been Around
 This 36-year-old rookie in the head coaching ranks was born In North Carolina, prepped in Georgia then enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1923, For three seasons he understudIed All.America Bill Spears at quartsr and played only one full game. That was his last, against Sewanee in 1926. Spears broke an ankle and Sanders beat Sewanee, l3-0,
 Although he had explained the baseball team and starred ct bas. ketball, Red made football his ca. reer. He assisted Josh Cody at Clemson, ran up 56 victories and two ties in 6i games ct Columbia and Riverside military academies, then spent a year at assistant at both Florida and Louisiana State. In 1889 Ray Morrison won only two games at Vandy. and the call went out for Sanders to come home.
 When he answered the call he found his alma mater all but de. emphasized. He had to rebuild from the bottom Up, and he did, He secuted prep schools for materia, and In September of io40 an uns usual number of big, strong fresh. men enrolled at vandy. While they were being schooled Sanders lost six games with the varsity, mainly because he lacked reserves. When the season opened this year the fans expected mor Of the same, 3uk they forgot one item,
 That was the crop of coming sophomores. With these sophs md hard, straight tactics devoid of come plicated tricks, Sanders moves against Tennessee on Saturday with a record of eight victories in nine games. If Vandy defeats the Vols, then the COmmodores will hold a good hand in the bowl games-and Sanders can be thanked. His hand. ling of men did 1t.
 Eleven of the players on Wander. Dilt's small squad of 33 boys worked at different positions before San- ders took them in hand and con- verted them.
 Sanders teams emphasize straight away football and use no particular system, just combination of Mo- 0ugfn- Neyland- -Wade-Cody styles. Thois years squad has rolled up 2SS points with power tactics and smart thinking. Sanders is a bug on brains; he won't use Q boy who can't rank higher than the class average in his studies.