Evening star., 1954-12-27

Identified with practically football system conceived
man." says Billy Gates the school drum-beater whats
more, he coach all of them"
When last the Rebels spitT team, they
primarily will be next Saturday in the Sugar Bowl But
Navys Eddie Erdeatz well realizes vaught may throw in
some single and double wing stuff. if not more.
vAUGHT PLAYED UNDER the late Francis Schmidt who
single and double As assistant coach to Bear
Wolf at North Carolina Vaught serving doublewng
exponent Helping Jimmy Crowley at Carolina Pre-Fght
Johnny became familiar with the Notre Dame technique
Later, at Corpus Christi, Tex, he became man with
Moon Mullins and in 49, moving to Ole Miss assistant
he dutifully taught Alabama
the Notre Dame box.
Drew competent coach but he had little luck at
Mississippi After had just of games 49,
Drew pulled stakes and headed back Alabama Twenty
four hours later, Vaaght had the top job
1t Johnnys intention to introduce the sptT
he got to be No. but he restrained himself in At
Left behind the regime a forward passer
Charlie Conery and Vaught wanted him operate from the
what Ole Miss people aectionay remember the "Conerly
shift deft revamping of standard Notre Dame shift
: patterns.
Result vaught became the first and only freshman head
coach to win Southeastern Conference title.
YEAR LATER, Conery was gone The Washington
Redskins drafted him privately they the day
they traded him to the Giants And with Conerys departure
80 went the shift Vaught devised for his star quarterback
In 48 the sptT introduced at Ole Miss Johnny
the first coach in the Deep South to the formation Gates
advises.
The Ole Miss publicity department has pulled out all
stops in singing the praises of Vaugh Attention called
the fact that his Sc victories and five ties games the
best record of any coach in the Rebels history.
"Only eight of the countrys bettered
Vaughts record from 194754" tells it follows
they had to be such powerhouses Nore Dame Michigan
State Army and Georgia Tech not to mention Maryland"
Vaught put himself in solid at Ole Miss however when
he took the squad that two in AT and captured
the Southeastern Conference title when the experts
picking the Rebels to finish 10th. Conerly with 1873 pass
competitions for 8 touchdowns found himself the national
champion Barney Poole caught A from Conery plus eight
from others, he led the Nation Both players
An-America honors.
SINCE 1T IS UNWISE and unsafe to laurels in
the coaching business Vaught kept producing wnnerx
in his eight years. counting the just ended But the
pressure building up.
Francis Wallace who peers into Golfers crystal ball,
picked Mississippi his No. Nationwide pick Wallace did
with tongue in cheek Studying the Rebels sched
ule which included such North Texas State Vlanova,
Memphis State Houston and subpar Vanderbilt Tulane and
Louisiana State Mystic Wallace predicted 100 for
Ole Miss The preseason Associated Press poll rated Mss
sippi as likely to be No TO-
Tongue in cheek no. Waace's prediction drew
men from vaught "Our has just been douby
tough he said Even if that good the law of
ages will trip somewhere along the line'
It did Arkansas messed up Prophet Wallace by scoring
66-yard pass for 60 win Ole Miss with four
minutes remaining Even the Rebels up
record by winning their last four.
BY the way Ole Miss folks don't like it if their "a
schedule is mocked They will that the Rebels
schedule tough Notre Danes they still held
to UCLA in ofenSe Get em mad enough, they won't
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