Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-19
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Most of the Greatest

INJECTING THE 2s greatest Of All in any sports iield
+ brave reckless foolish and probably hankless under
taking Edwin Pope tries It In new book, Footballs
Greatest Coaches" and comes on surprisingly We although
not totally uncrticzed STILL Pope can share chidng with
nearly 80 top sportswrers who formed his advisory board
Wally Butts Of Georgia made the list but Lawrenee
@n Zones Of glory days at West Point did not Lou Little
Of Columbia got his abnormal mileage from Longevity but
Hugo Bezdek Of Penn State was overlooked and
Dick Harlow Both were giants in coaching q their days
Bezdek more so than Harlow was oversight, HUGO
beng the developer 1T Penn state Of such Hnkey Hai
Glenn Knger Charlie Way and Light Horse Harry Wilson,
Who later starred at Army. ss8Ks .
Middle West think that young Mr. Pope and his advisors
pulled the biggest boo-boo when they failed to include D
Henry "A Williams the former Yale halthAck who rey0ll
Hsian But Doc wllas founded tie dynasty that brought
q many victories tories e the dophers III
STARTING IN 1896 two players Of the offensive side
were required to line up at least yards behind the line
when two lnemen taken into the backheld. It
called the guards-back system but Doc Williams coaching
Il the time ct the William Penn Charter School, found
Wa 70 beat IT He kept SIX men the line and sl gained
the principal benefits Of guards back" by using heavy
funback.
Deciding the best position for his power was behind
tackle Doc brought the tackle from side and stationed
him yard behind the other side Of the line with
the fuback halves and quarterback In position to fan In
behind Yale wouldn't buy the "tacle-backp tandem until
AFTER Army tried It and ended otherwise disastrous
season with piaushle IT'S victory over Navy 18s9
Ironically Yale was given much credit for this type Of
power football but the inventor Williams who took 1t
n Mnnesota where power eventually became autonomous
With Berman far fans of another were concerned
Bernie turned out great teams but oldtimers still
insist that perhaps the best mdwestern team developed
was Doc Williams Of 1916.
This was the year the Gophers waOped South Dakota
state 4-O North Dakota. 477 South Dakota sl0 Iowa.
6-0 wisconsin $40 and Chicago 4o-o they lost once on
luke to Illinois, 14-9 and the Iini the nucleus Of
The original Chicago Hearsi
AUTHOR PoPEs WORK, happily, Is not heavy Rather,
full Of anecdotes and little known forgotten facts
Bob zuppke for instance coached Ernest Hemingway
Knte Rockne between seasons and games worked with
Nore Dame scientist Father Neuwand developing the
base for synthetic rubber When his Carlisle Indians made
mistakes Pop Warner made them spank each other.
The chapter on Zuppke Is typical Of the insight that
Pope by his research throws the giants Of the coach
Ing profession zuppke It IS said had scholarship
player 70 his % years at Illinois When disclosed that
1877 championship team zuppke countered BY saying that
he liked his men large only II they were fast. too.
When you get good little man. he said che b
almost sure 70 be star because he must have spirit that
Michigan rooter kissed on the mighty Red Grange
once BY remarking: es@
.AlI Grange can do Is run"
In much quoted retort, zuppke said s
And Al dalli-curci can do Is sing" u
s Sss 4## AS
zUpPKEs CUPs, his battles Of wit with Knuts Rockne
and Others did much to further set apart the little
whose Mini shared eight Big Ten titles one time,
Remaining the publicity players received he said
often an Ml-American Is made by g long rum weak
defense and poet In the press box.
Not all Of his observations went unchallenged nm
topped At Los Angeles banquet at which Grantand Rice
was present, zuppke offered: s@
New York Is the cesspool Of journalism
r won't debate IT." Rice lazy replied MY old grandma
taught to argue about cesspoo with expert"
Alumni interference was Of his pet peeves and,
although he did not leave Illinois until after 20 years. and
then voluntarily he claimed to have his notion as
to how long coach should remain at school.
He should change every 10 years" he said, because
IN that time the frustrated substitute grows up to be
member Of the athletic council"