The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-25
CECIL ISBELL
 UNITED PRESS COACH OF WEEK
By CARL LUNDQUIsT United Press Sports Writer)

I NGW IOkk OCbs GO'-NOGt - &AC wasn't even on the bench when his players draped crepe on the hopes of a team that had national foot ball championship aspirations.
 Maybe that's no way for coach to act, but 1t got results.
 As a matter of fact he was SO far away he had to use a telephone to contact his assistants on the bench from his perch high up in the stadium behind the cheap seats.
 As on every other football Sat- urday he went through two-hour stretch of mental gymnastics in which he was in on every tackle, every block, each long pass and downflled dash. How else, he asks, could an old football player act when he is back as head coach of his alma mater team?
 But the system pays off. Right now he's the man of the hour In the Big Ten Conference, the United Press coach of the week-Cecil Isbell of those banging Boilermak. CTS from Purdue-unbeaten united and, until last Saturday, under rated.
 That was before they stormed into Columbus, rated two touch- downs inferior to Ohio State, un- beaten and united for two seasons. Five minutes after the kickoff, the experts knew they were wrong. They were watching team with dazzle and dash, @ team confident 1t was going to win because 1t had mas tery of nearly every trick in the grid books. And when the upset had been accomplished to the tune of 36 to IS, lsbell relaxed and told how 1t happened.
 There wasn't any pointing for the game, he insisted. It was the old story of We play em aS they come along" and don't forget that the games get tougher as the season progresses"
 Realistically, he thinks next time his team could be the one to be upset.
 We're not predicting any cham pionshlp," he said. "Remember that we have to 90 the rest of the way with only three tackles. We're hop ing-that,s all.
 But there Is more to the story than that. The writers stressed that this Purdue team was one of the most smartly coached that they had seen and that the fine hands of 6 resourceful coach was in on every play,
 That was the fine hand that made Purdue Q great team in the 1885, '36, and '37 seasons when he became one of the top paSSers ever to play in the Big Ten. Later, in five seasons with Green Bay, he set new National league football records in yards gained, in total passes completed and in the number of touchdown passes tossed by one man.
 He returned to Purdue as back field coach in lo43 and properly was given much of the credit for the perfect record team that went through c rline.game schedule all-. victoriously under Head Coach Fl. iner Burnham.
 In i044, he became head coach, the only National league pro play. CT ever to hold down such 0 job in the Big Ten. Young enough at 90 to be one of the boys, he promptly won their confidence with c new kind of football.
 Stressing speed from the TT" for- nation, he has built his current team around such stars as Fresh. man Bob DemoSs ct quarterback, Sophomore Bill Canfield ct half- back, Tom Hughes ct tackle, Joe Kodba ct center and Ed Cody at fulback. Cody, he said is the fast. est starting fullback" he has seen and he predicts that "DemoSs will become one of the games great all-time passers."
 His disappearance from the grid- iron both in games and during practice Is only one innovation. He learned that trick from his old Coach Curley Lambeau of Green Bay, but he has another one that is strictly his own. That is practice without scrimmage. Saturda y's games are rough enough, he says, and he confines the drills between games to polish of offensive and de- fensive tactics and the running of plays. He works out with the team, demonstrating what he breaches and striving for perfection.
 That perfection is q long way from actuality, he says, and he doesn't hesitate to describe this team aS mot so good as the i043 club
 We had il men on the field then, all mature and older" he said. These fellows are just kids. We're young and we don't have the depth. We just don't campare.
 They have q different description for 1sbell'S kids" ct Ohio State.