Milford chronicle., 1956-04-13
University News


The progress of spring f0otbaE
practice at the University Of Del
aware indicates that once again
the Blue Hen grtdders viii feature
one of the strongest lines in the
East. And it Will be due to large
extent to the efforts of a native of
Kalamazoo, Michigan, line coach
Milo r. Lude.
Delaware football teams in re-
cent years have enjoyed unusual
success, with last seasons 8-1-0
record-4the best in the Eastern In
ter-collegiate Football association
being good example Head
coach Dave Nelson attributes much
of this to the near impermeable
forward walls which Lude has pro-
duced-
Lude, who captained the football
squad at Hillsdale College in 1946
while Nelson served as head coach
turned out a line last fall that was
the envy of football teams through
out the East In total defense and
in rushing defense, Delaware
ranked third behind Army and
Buffalo. On the national scene, the
Hens were thirtieth in total defense
and twenty-sixth in rushing de-
Tense. respectively. While Del
aware's otfense was being measur-
ed at 337 yards game last sea-
son, the team was allowing oppon-
ents only a scanf 162 yards a game,
80 of which were earned on the
ground
In the 1854 season. the Delaware
defense permitted grid fees only
500 yards rushing in nine games. an
average of 76.7 yards per game.
Lude, who also holds the title
OF assistant professor OF physical
education and athletics at the Uni
yersity of Delaware, Is entering
his sixth season as Blue Hen 41e
coach. In addition to his athletic
obligations he serves as assistant
to the director of admissions.
Milo. better known as Mike,
has received wide acclaim for ini-
tiating an academic guidance pro-
gram for athletes at the Univer-
sity of Delaware. Upon his arrival
here In 1851. Lude began an extern
sive program of polling each facul-
ty member. who had one or more
football players in his class. After
obtaining records or attendance,
attitude and interest, he arranged
conferences between the students
and the instructors. Lude holds
personal conferences with the play
ers in search of ways of improve
ment and the solution of academic
problems Also, the Delaware
coach maintains a form on each
athlete, permitting am overall pic
ture of the players academic pro-
gress at a glance.
This year Lude will be able to
field football line with an ex-
perienced letterman in each posi-
tion. Tie captain of the team is
one of his proteges, and the center
on last years squad was selected
on the ALI America team of the
late Christy Walsh.
After graduating from Hillsdale
College. Lude returned to his alma
mater Ii the fall of 1947 as physi-
cal education instructor, line
coach, trainer and director of in
tramurals. Tn 1949 he Joined the
staff of the University of Maine as
line coach and head baseball coach.
During World War IT, he served
as a canta'n in the u. s. Marine
Corps After his return from SER
vice. he received a Masters de-
cree from Michigan State College.
Milo ard Mrs Lude. the former
ReDa Pifer, reside with their three
children at II Chaucer Drive,
Brookside. Newark, Del.
A nstionally known authority in
the field Of sociology will join the
1856 summer school faculty of the
University of Delaware, Dean VIII
liam O. Penrose, director of the
summer session. announced today.
DIR. Gordon w. Blackwell. direc-
tor of the University of North Caro-
lina's Institute for Research in So
cial Science and Kenan Professor
Of Sociology, will offer a course in
community organization and q
seminar on the community in
American society.
In 1912 the American Council on
Education selected DR.. Blackwell
to conduct q study of programs of
teacher education throughout the
country which was published as a
volume entitled Toward COM
munity UNDERSTANDING. He was
also employed by the New York
State Department. OF Education to
study the social science programs
of twenty five colleges and univer-
stiles IN that state. During World
War IT he served with the Office
cf Civilian Defense, working on
community problems under the