Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Coaches Are ShuffIed
Freely as Rough Grid
Season Hits Colleges
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

BY the Assoeiaisd Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-The rough
and rocky 1948 football season had
its repercussions in coaching ranks
at least 10 major college teams
will have new top tacticians next
fall.
There have been shakeups at Wis
consin, U. c. L. A., Mississippi State,
Nebraska, Duquesne. Washington
and Lee, Carnegie Tech, Virginia
Military Institute, Cincinnati and
Montana.
Cincinnati and Mississippi State
have filled their openings. The
others still are shopping around.
Cincinnati failed to renew the
contract of Ray Noting, the one
time Chicago Bear, after the Ohio
team lost six and tied one of 10
games. Sid Gilman, former coach
at Miami (Ohio) University, left his
job as Army line tutor to take
Nolting's place.
Arthur (Slick Morton resigned at
Virginia Military Institute to sue
coed Allyn McKeen at Mississippi
State. McKeen, the old Tennessee
man, stepped out after 10 years at
Starkville, Miss.
Badgers After Coach.
One Of the Oldest coaching con-
nections was severed when Harry
A. Stuhldreher, under some heavy
student pressure, quit as head
mentor at Wisconsin, but kept his
post as athletic director.
Stuhldreher, the last of Notre
Danes famed -Four Horsemen" still
active in the profession, had led the
Badgers in football for IS years. But
his last one was disastrous-two vic
tories and seven defeats and the
cellar spot in Western Conference
standings.
Wisconsin is reported interested
in Charles CBud) Wilkinson, Okla
homa head coach, as successor. But
a new Swear contract at $4,000
per is expected to keep Wilkinson at
home.
Bert La Brucherie and his entire
staff resigned en- masse at U. C. L. A.
La Brucherie was paid off in full on
contract that had another year to
run. He took the job in 1945.
Nebraska Has Job Open.
At Nebraska. George (Potsy Clark
followed Stuhldreher's pattern and
divorced himself from coaching du-
ties to devote full time to the ath-
letic dictatorship.
Nebraska has approached Jim
Aiken of Oregon, Lon Stiner of
Oregon State, Ivan Williamson OF
Lafayette and Paul Brown of the
professional Cleveland Browns about
taking over the assignment.
Two Pittsburgh institutions-Car-
negie Tech and Duquesne-are in
the market for new head coaches.
Carnegie Tech is looking for a
successor to William wild Bill
Donohoe, who resigned. Duquesne
is trying to fill the vacancy left by
kass Kovalcheck.
Jim Leonard, former Pittsburgh
Steeler coach and Joe Bach, who
once guided Duquesne. are posi-
bilities for the Duquesne Tech re-
ports % applications for Donohoe's
old job, but gives no hint of who'll
get it.
In a surprise move, Arthur Pap
py) Lewis resigned as top man at
Washington and Lee to become the
No. 2 coach under Morton at Mis-.
sissippi State.
Smaller Colleges Hit.
Montana lost q coach that had
been with the team for IA years.
Douglas A. Fessenden stepped out,
saying he wanted to give full time
to his teaching duties.
A number of the smaller colleges
lost their instructors-Bill Sargent
at Loyola in Los Angeles, Herb
Smith at Wayne. Harold E Wise
at Ohio u, Levan P. Smith at
Albright and Jack Mcdowell at
Rollins, to name a few.
In one of the most sensational
post-Season athletic moves, Capt
Tom Hamilton left Navy to become
the new athletic director at Pitts
burgh.
But several coaches received
votes of confidence in the form
of new and more lucrative contracts
Despite a mediocre season, Yale
tore up Big Herman Hickmans
3-year contract and gave him a
new one for five. Quinn Decker
of The Citadel has a new 5-year
lease and Joe Sheeketski of Nevada
has one just like it waiting for him
Ray Bear VOLTS working papers
at Florida were renewed for two
more years. And Ed Danowski, on
the gridiron gTiddle at Fordham
for a while, received new contrac!
when fans rallied to his support,