The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
The
Morning Watch
Edward Sachs
Cinderella Man

Clark Shaughnessy the whose career resembles
O nogo STICK has been renamed football coach at tho
University of Maryland ending and beginning another
.hapter in the grid saga of the Cinderella man who
jumped from the worst football team in the country to
the Rose Bowl -. and out again.
This first exposed to shaushnessy when he
vas suffering with those awful University Chicago teams
ohio State Michigan Northwestern, and Vanderbilt
used teams as punching bag week after week.
Against the powerhouses that sags Rover Boys
wouldn't have made any difference if he used the T fora
or or Culberson convention However, town.
rcago assembling outfit that compared
New Yankees Of baseball in depth Of players speed and
general competence
League with the regularity = champ on a tour Of
ah Among innovations introduced by shag
the notion True, Ralph Jones had with his
Lake and Bear elevens Of the
made the man in motion one Of the strongest mediums
IN 1910 the Cinderella Man jumped Stanford of the Pacific
r conference had year
1889 under the Shaugnessy treatment underfed quarter
k named hey fullback, Norm Standlee
de lAnerican swept to the
@ championship. Shag pushed his luck further
ued Nebraska with typical Cornhusker powerhouse into
the Rose Bowl.
sbag won and he literally sitting top Of the grid
world It was the greatest rags-toriches story David
Copperfed sports public ate 1t But indigestion
allowed when Stanford eliminated athletics spring
cause Of the war.
sbag bounced all the way from Rose back
WINDS Maryland University College Park Mary
I had been in the grid long that 20point
defeat considered a moral victory.
The tall got busy the aid of the fast running
Tommy Mont together the best team the Terps had
Bird the schools president had played
nm one of then too that Shag became
m of the Washington Redskins advisory coaches When bud
resigned as month he said that interference
from shag one Of the reasons
Be that as may, may that two football coaches
are not as good one Shag moved to Pitt. Climbing the
golden ladder again. looked like he had picked good spot
Pitt had sumped the days Of Goldberg Sebbns ct al
and the coaching masterhip of Jock Sutherland Yet the
said that following Shag great most
of good high school players They him big build
up and half of the stands when Shag trot
ted out his But the fall OF 1943 and the
Painters playing Notre Dame
seems irish hadn't read the Pittsburgh papers
another Celtic who had graduated
from police Bertil, Kelly ct al They murdered
although Shag finished the season and re" MORE
the etdown Just too much for him.
beginning of the end of the Pittsburgh story appeared
strike against his coaching
His players Ohio State for three quarters
meeting October but in the last sanza the
know they pushing certain ishman all the from
Pittsburgh to Maryland
The final last week when three OF MS IS
stan said thew would Pitt If Shag did, Lass
night Cinderella Man back again Win ms
formation affinity disagreements and headlines ana
lined for next year but Sou
m Conference football better look out when they play
MARYLAND They will run everything from delayed bucks to
it is still the old shaughnessy