The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-25
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BILL ALEXANDER OF GEORGIA TECH
 COACH OF WEEK
DY y0R JANIl8 CUgTHR

DY JOE JAMES CUSTER (IImltea pFeos Staff COEFespoMdOnl)
 New Ycpk, oct, aB-(Up)s-In thelr faded ohaFtreuDe jerseys and eolied yellow pants they're the most dlsEOputahlo looking football team in the southland,
 But tho guy who bo@eB them doesn't care about style, he's only interested in class AB Q team end they showed plenty oe that in Che nAbions biggest upset last week, He's Che United Press coach os the week, bluis, ltFAlghtstalklng DlN Alexander os those FAmblln' Wfeoks ln' engineers from Georgia Tech,
 Folks at Georgia Tech Bomotlmen ohlde him because he doesn't spruce up his team Q little but Alexander, now ln his silver anniversary year Ag coach of the team, hes . ready Ahnwee for that,
 "DFlght and pretty uniforms are OH Flght is you win, but they look like hon is you are out there An dressed up and then got beat" nc
 HaturdAyn victory over Navy in R game that Wlll become Q football legend, was attributed strictly W ''Iady luck" by Alexander in hlt poetsmoFtem appFaisAl,
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 we were goshsAwsul foFtuhatN and the cEedlt gees Co the boya," he said, '1They certainly played W tho limit of thOlF capabilities"
 Alexander, who bears 6 remark able Tesemblanee to Gen, DwigM Eisenhower, end iS running his team ln the same victorious FnAh' her, believes there 10 one other vies tory thAt stands out even above that hAlPsFaiaeF over Navy, ThaN Was tho 1920 Rose Bowl thFilleg when Tech won Q Co 2 over 0Allis OFnla after dropping Roy lVegele in the end Bone after hb sAImous ''wPongsWay" run,
 The Wily dean Of the southern coaches has . unique phase @ hls record that may be unapproaehaple by anyone else for g long tlme' A9 k tho only mentor whoso teAM nave been n each Of the four majov bowls, They dropped Missouri sl to 2 in the iD4b orange Bowl, 1ulsh 70 tO 10 this years Sugar BoWl game and thOIF only loss was @ Texas, iA to ! in the Cottoh bowk ln iplS, ,,.
 Alex was born at Mud River, Kyp but has been Q 'pF0fessionAl ueofg. Ian" ever since nc was eight years old when his family moved him 70 Macon,
 Coed coaching has been the cor. neFstons of every Tech eleven ID khe quarter os . century of Alexan' deP's regime and take lt from Navy Line Coach, Lieutenant 0ommAnder E, E, tRip) Miller, they'll Dc tough tO beat aB long aB he iA At the helm,
 dThat guy could win football games against tough college teams M had nothing but lbsyear'oids play' lng for him." Miller said,
 Many . Georgia Tech victory hA9 been scored on plays 90 aeeeptlW that even seasoned pFeBssbox 0b' servers didn't know who had the ball and how he got ib Alexander gees for EeVeFseb, end'Afouhas ana
 Alexander, whose hobby next te football N ln being 8 family man" counts on his blueseyed Wife As hW number one F0oteF, She has never mibsed . bowl game and rarely is sway from any Of the Tech home games,
 10 likes golf, An occasional Bip oi sherry and good books, but not py women, That gets him ln hot was ter with hb three step daughteFD and his sister, Elizabeth Alexander, Q New York short story writer, one Of his daughters ts Marie Scott, now on leave from the United Press at Atlanta and another iB RebekAh Scott, who recently won writing awaTd by Washington Seminary os Atlanta,
 Although 6 lot of Bowl commit. tees gre giving Tech top eonsideEAs ton for Q postsseason bowl game. Alexander Isn't concerned beyond whatever the engineers play next, This week on Friday night "Alexans d0F's Rag Time Band" opposes the tough Georgia PFesE1lght eleven and he b worried over . letsdoWn after the terrific Navy game, But the rest of the campus Isn't concerned, They feel that he'll pull them In As