Evening star., 1949-01-21
YoungGrid Tutor
Will Select Full
Staff Of Aides
Duration of Contract
With Ex-CoIIeee, Pro
Back Not Revealed
By George Huber

Margarita is the new football coach
at Georgetown University.
Three days Of speculation that
the former backf1eld star at Brown
University and with the Chicago
Bears would take over at the Hill
top ended this morning when he
was introduced by Rev. Robert
Parsons, S. j.. faculty director OF
athletics at Georgetown, as sue
cessor to Jack Hagerty. That Mar
garita would be the new Hoya coach
qualified as the worst kept sports
secret OF the young year for on
Wednesday The Star published his
picture and revealed that he was
slated for the job.
Hagerty on Tuesday ended q a.
year tenure as head coach by taking
over the director of athletics post
vacated by the resignation Of Rome
Schwagel.
At Georgetown this morning Mar
garita said he was very pleased
at being selected as Hoya grid coach
and both Father Parsons and Hag-
erty expressed the opinion that ne
is one of the best young coaches IN
the business and predicted he would
do o great job at Georgetown.
Has No Magic Formula.
II have no magic formula for
football success" said the 28-year-
old Margarita. 1T takes hard work
to be success at anything, and that
will be my system. Well work hard
but we also will have a lot Of fun
and I hope to do a good job. It's a
great opportunity to be head coach
at a school like Georgetown.
appreciate the chance they've given
me and will work hard to turn out
good football team
Margarita comes to Georgetown
after a year as backfield coach under
Herman Hickman at Yale University
Before that he was backfleld coach
at Harvard under Dick Harlow in
1946 and l947 and spent brief eight
days at Georgetown as backfleld
coach last spring.
The length of Margaritas con-
tract at Georgetown and the terms
were not revealed, but Father Par
sons said that Il hope he will be
here for long time. We certainly
plan it that way"
Contract Terms Not Revealed.
Within the last month there has
been a clean sweep OF the football
staff at. Georgetown and Margarita
| will have q free hand in selecting
his own assistants. Hagarty's var
sity assistants last fall-George
Murtagh, Mush Dobofsky and Mike
Palm-as we'll as Freshman Coach
Mac Cara. all are gone. Murtagh
has been made coach Of the 150-
pound team to be installed there
this fall. Dubofsky has resigned
and Palm was there for one year
only. Cara resigned on Monday to
become an assistant coach at Mis-
sissippi State.
Margarita said this morning that
he has no idea as to who his assist
ants will be- "A good staff is one
of the most important things, and
want to give 1t plenty of thought.
My mind is open and want to talk
to lot of men before make it up,
he said.
The new coach also has no i'm
mediate plans as to what offensive
system his Hoyas will use next fall.
That is something I'll have to de-
eide after looking over the players
and Judging their ability. I'll use
whatever system I think best with
the material We have. I honestly
don't know the players or who will
be back from last years varsity or
who is coming up from the fresh
man team he said.
Prefers T Formation.
Margarita did say that personally
he prefers the T system used by the
Bears when he was player with
Chicago and by Hickman at Yale
last fall. He also is well acquainted
with the single wing. having learned
it under Harlow, one of the masters
of that offensive, at Harvard.
Margarita is likeable man, quiet
spoken, but giving the impression
that he has the ability to make a
success of his first head coaching
position. At % he may be the young
est head coach at major school in
the country. but his background
makes him we'll qualified for the job.
At Brown University he was re-
garded as one of the outstanding
football backs in the Ivy League
and was a good breakaway runner
and the teams leading ground gain
er in his senior year. He also was
class president in his senior year.
He played with the Chicago Bears
in 1914 and 1945 in the backfleld
with Sid Luckman. George McAfee
and Garry Famiglietti. He also
played the last three games of the
1946 season with the Bears after
the Harvard season closed and while
the Bears were going to the Ma
tional Football League champion
ship.
Will Move Family Here Later.
He is married and has a year-old
son. James Francis. His family now
is at New Haven, and Margarita
said 1t probably would remain there
through spring. "As soon as I have
a chance I want to look around and
find a place to live near here, prob
ably across the river. But I un-
derstand the housing situation is
tough here and with the press of
spring football practice coming up
it probably will be summer before
my family can settle here perma-
nently," he said.
From what I've seen Of George
town and Washington, I'm sure I'll
like 1t here and hope = to stick
around for a long time"
Ten years ago-Don Bulge de-
feated Ellsworth Vines, SI6, Is,
Ga. in a professional tennis
match at Buffalo.