Evening star., 1947-02-06
N. Y. U. Selects MyIin
In Another Of Series
|0f Football Shifts
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Appoint-
ment of Paul o. Bixler. grid mentor
at Ohio State, to the post at Col
gate University vacated by the re-
tirement of the veteran Andy Kerr,
today high lighted another round
of job shifts in the faSt-changing
college football coaching picture.
The Colgate job, one of the most
lucrative in Eastern college circles,
has been open since Kerr, coach
there since 1929, retired the latter
part of the 1916 season. Bixler
served under Kerr at Colgate as
assistant coach in 1939-40 and went
to Ohio State the following year
He was named head coach last year
Fesler in Running for Post.
Reports from Columbus, said
Wesley E. Fesler, former Ohio State
athletic great now coaching at
Pittsburgh University, was the top
nominee to succeed Bixler.
Richard C. Dick Larkins, Ohio
States athletic director eject, said
nothing official had been done yet
toward selecting q successor to
Bixler, but added that his old-time
friend and tean1mate at Ohio State
certainly will be one of the first
considered"
The Colgate vacancy was one OF
more than q score existing since
the close of footballs first big post
war season. Another opening was
filled yesterday with the naming OF
E. S. (Hooks) Mylin, formerly OF
Lafayette, to the head coaching
Job at New York University.
California Job Open.
Meanwhile speculation continued
over the situation at the University
of California, where Frank Wick
horst resigned at the end Of the
season. The newest twist was the
departure of H. o. (Fritz) Crisler,
Michigan athletic director, from
Berkeley after conferences there
with university officials.
An announcement yesterday en-
phasized that Crisler "did not apply
for the job, and explained that he
had gone to California at the ex-
pense of the university to talk with
President Robert M. Sproul and the
students relative to the athletic
situation.
Later, however, Brutus Hamilton,
head of a committee to select a
coach, said "if we made Mr.. Crisler
an offer-and there is such a posi-
bility-it would be made through
the proper channels at the Univer-
sity of Michigan. ."
Resigned Under Pressure.
Wickhorst resigned under student
pressure at the close of the season
in which his team won only two
games. His name has been linked
with the position at Kansas State
left vacant by the resignation Of
Hobbs Adams. Announcing the ap-
pointment of a new athletic director
yesterday, Kansas State President
Milton Eisenhower said coach
would be named in about week.
Another opening developed yes
terday when Mike Michalske an
nounced he was leaving Iowa State,
where he served as head coach since
1912. At Lincoln, Nebr., 1t was
reported Michalske was sought for
the line coaching job at the Uni
versity Of Nebraska vacated by Co
mer Jones. Jones took a similar
post at Oklahoma.
Other recent designations left
openings at Bucknell, where Al
Humphrey quit as coach although
remaining as athletic director; at
City College of New York, where
Lou Red Gebhard resigned; at
Ohio Wesleyan, which lost George
E. Gauthier after rs years, and at
Loyola of Louisiana, where Tony
De Lellis resigned.
Others Seek Coaches.
Among other schools seeking
coaches are Grinnell, which lost Ben
Douglas to Colorado College; Colby,
where Danny Lewis resigned; Ari-
zona State at Tempe, where Steve
Coutchie quit; Fresno State, where
Jim Bradshaw stepped down; Idabo,
which lost J. A. (Babe) Brown, and
Nevada, where Jim Aiken resigned
to go to the University of Oregon.
At N. Y. u, Mylin succeeds Jack
Weinheimer, who resigned after
coaching through the war years.
Mylin, coach of the year" in 1887,
quit at Lafayette after one of the
most disastrous seasons in his %
years of coaching. His Leopards won
two and lost seven in 1916. Mylin
previously coached at Lebanon VAL
ley and .Bucknell and during the
war at Camp Lee, Va.