Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-11
MYERS OF BOSTON
COACHES EAST'S
BEST TEAM NOW

NEW YORK, Nov. 11-(UP) =
He was a jack-of f-all-trades as a
player, but as a teacher of the mod
ern version of footballs T formation
he's becoming q master.
Because he has produced the only
major unbeaten team in the east,
one that appears destined for a
bowl bid, the United Press presents
as its coach of the week Dennis
Edward Myers of Boston College.
His team hasn't played the
toughest schedule in the world but
it has done everything it was called
upon to do and unless it gets
knocked off in the three remain
ing games the Eagles will go down
as one of the top football clubs Of
1912.
So far they have turned back
West Virinia. Clemson, North Caro-
lima Pre-Flight, Wake Forrest,
Georgetown, and Temple, with
Fordham, Boston University land
Holy Cross to go. With its hard
charging line and battering backs,
the club will be favored in the re-
naming games.
BECOMING WORRISOME
Now that the team is winning,
Myers, SO and partly bald, is fast
becoming one of the most Worrl-
some coaches in the nation. Last
week before the Eagles met Temple.
he sounded dire warnings for his
SQUAD. But it came through % to
o although the teams lack of zip
was apparent to the rival coach,
Ray Morrison, who said:
B. C. is a good team, but I'm
not sure it's a great one
Myers scowled a little and re-
marked:
Il knew I couldn't bring my team
to a fighting pitch. We weren't
the way we did in the early
games"
This was a startling transition
from the Myers of year ago. When
he went to Boston College to take
over the remnants of great
Frank Leahy coached team, Myers
spoke of good team and a VIM
ming season. Alumni welcomed the
after period of gloomy
gil dobie and weeping Leahy. But
his first team at B. c. lost are:
games last season.
Those losses did more than any
thing else to prove that Myers
was one of footballs most exact
Ing students-a characteristic that
asserted itself almost from the time
he captained the high school team
in his native Algona, Ia, back in
1886.
Six feet tall and weighing 200
pounds, Myers decided to expert
n4ent in his first head coaching
Job. He was well equipped for it.
At the University of Iowa he
played fullback and captained the
Fl Teshman team. AS sophomore
he made the varsity as a quarter
back. AS a junior he played end,
wingback and tackle. AS a senior,
quarterback and guard. He was a
rough and tough college player, but
not a great one.
From Iowa he went to the IRON
ton, O., professional team which
later became the Detroit Lions. He
also played for the Chicago Bears
as a guard and with the Brook
lvn Dodgers as a guard and full
back. Then he turned to coaching,
with terms at West Virginia, Yale
and Brown as line mentor.
Although he knew it would prob
ably take a season or more before
he could make it click, his first
experiment at B. C. was the t for
nation. He eliminated the run
ming guard because:
q was a guard myself and
started thinking how few times dur
ing my career I was able to get
ahead of the ball carrier on flank
plays and actually put the backer-
ur out of the play with a block.
With that in mind l started to
study movies. Believe it or not,
the movies showed the running
guards seldom get into position
where they can block the man as
signed to them So 1 decided there
must be some way that was better
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