Howard Resigns As Head Coach
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Clemson University TigerPrints Tiger Newspapers 1969 12-10-1969 The iT ger Vol. LXIII No. 15 - 1969-12-10 Clemson University Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/tiger_newspaper1969 Recommended Citation University, Clemson, "The iT ger Vol. LXIII No. 15 - 1969-12-10" (1969). Tiger Newspapers 1969. 28. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/tiger_newspaper1969/28 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tiger Newspapers 1969 by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SOUTH CAROLINA ROOM DEC 11 19® Special Edition ©tg*r Special Edition "He Roars For A Better Clemson University" ___ Dec. 10, 1969 Howard Resigns As Head Coach "1969 was my last year as In typical Howard-style Under Howard, Clemson's Howard has also served By BILL RHODES football coach at Clemson. I humor, he said, "You know, Sports Editor Tigers have won 165 games, on the coaching staff of sev- feel that 30 years is just when the president dies, while losing 118 and tying eral post season all star Frank Howard, Clemson's about enough for anybody at they get a new one in 15 12. Clemson also participat- games. He recently retired head football coach and ath- anything." minutes; but when I retire, letic director, announced his ed in seven post season as one of 15 voting members Clemson President R. C. it's gonna take about two or bowls and won the ACC of the rules committee of retirement as head coach at Edwards addressed the as- three weeks to get a new championship six times. the NCAA. a special news conference sembled newsmen as to head coach." held at 4 p.m. Wednesday af- the timing of Howard's an- ternoon. nouncement by referring After 30 years as head to the fact that prospec- coach, Howard will remain tive athletes will be sign- Head Coaching Job Open as athletic director. No suc- ed on Dec. 13. cessor has been named. "We chose this particular By JIM WALSER Howard said that an earlier agreement Howard said, "I decided time to stop the rumor mills News Editor with a prospective coach had been reached last April that this would and to assure next year's "We want to get some new blood in but that "he hadn't lived up to the agree- be my last year. I have no athletes and their parents as here. I think some of my assistants may ment." Howard continued, "We had plan- reason for retiring except to the future of the coach- be qualified, but I don't think the alumni ned to announce the new head coach at that after 30 years, I decided ing situation at Clemson," would be satisfied with any of them," said the same time as I retired, but that indi- we needed a new man. said Edwards. Frank Howard at his press conference vidual failed to live up to his commit- The Baron indicated that In response to many ques- Wednesday afternoon at the Clemson ment." a successor had agreed to tions about successors, How- House. come to Clemson but had ard stated that his assistant Howard refused to say who the individ- changed his mind. "We had Thus, Howard ruled out the possibility ual was, but he added, "you know who coaches had been ruled out. of any of the present assistant coaches hoped to announce the new "The University has prom- he is." Informed sources said that the head coach at the same time moving up to the head coaching job. "individual" was Florida State head foot- ised to take care of my as- Howard said that a three-man commit- that I retired," said How- sistants. Some will stay, ball coach Bill Peterson. A Spartanburg ard, "but that particular in- tee will decide on the new head coach. newspaper reported last month that Peter- some will leave, and others The committee will be composed of How- dividual didn't see fit to hon- will be getting new jobs on son would come to Clemson. or his commitment." No ard, President R. C. Edwards, and the Vice the campus." President for Student Affairs. Howard Among coaches rumored to be under name was given as a "lead- "We're going to get the consideration are Lloyd Eaton, head foot- ing candidate for the posi- said the man would be one "with a repu- best man we possibly can," tation." ball coach at the University of Wyoming, tion." continued Howard. "We're and Davidson head coach Homer Smith. Howard emphasized repeatedly that his Howard held a meeting going to bring in a young Also, Georgia defensive coach Erskine Rus- successor would be one of prominence in with his football squad at fellow who has some differ- sell is among those being considered. 12 noon and told them that ent ideas about coaching." coaching circles. Baron's Come A Long Way Head football Coach Frank Howard Wednesday announced his retirement after 30 Few colleges in the country he ever witnessed), and Miami ber 1962;andwasnamedcoach That summer Howard and 25, 1909. He spent his early years at that position. Howard will remain as athletic director, but will turn the today have a man around who felt the Tiger claws, 15-14. of the South squad in Miami's three members of his varsity days on a farm and playing coaching job over to his successor, who has not yet been named. In the above photo, 1961 and 1968 North-South staff were given a trip to Howard responds to a question asked at his press conference Wednesday afternoon can equal Frank Howard's The total points spread in mostly cow pasture bassball at the Clemson House. football record, and who at the these three bowl wins was game. He will coach the 1970 Europe by the Department of because there were not enough same time, doubles as one of five points. Howard says we Hula Bowl. He just recently Defense to conduct a clinic boys around the community to the nation* s most sought after "humiliated all three of'em." retired as one of 15 voting for the Armed Forces in Ger- form a football team. Howard banquet speakers and clinic The Gator Bowl beckoned members of the important many and then came the foot- says he left Barlow Bend walk- Player Responses Vary lecturers. He and "Peahead" the Tigers again in January rules committee of the NCAA. ball season and the Tigers ing barefooted on a barbed Walker, late of the Montreal 1952, and by being conference A single wing expert for 22 presented Howard an 8-2 sea- wire fence with a wildcat under By JULE WELBORN I hate to see him go out as insecure. We don't know Alouettes and now Southern champions in 1956, Clemson seasons (including nine as line son which led to the Sugar each arm. Sports Writer what is coming next. I would played in the '57 Orange Bowl coach), Howard changed to the Bowl invitation. One of these a loser. I hope our team en- player personnel director for After finishing Murphy High Reactions were varied thusiasm will improve under like for things to settle down classic again. Miami downed T-formation and its many va- 1958 wins was the 100th of the N.Y. Giants, form prob- in Mobile he entered the Uni- among the Clemson football our new coach." so we will be able to play ably the "biggest character Clemson 14-0, in the second riations in 1953. Still another Howard's coaching career. players over the retirement Chuck Huntley, a fresh- winning football next sea- major change in the Offense That came against the late Jim versity of Alabama on an aca- pair" in the gridiron ranks Gator trip and Colorado led demic scholarship in the fall of Frank Howard. man, stated, "His retirement son." Clemson, 20-0, then trailed was installed in 1965 with the Tatum of North Carolina, a He added, "Over the years, today. of 1927 where with his 185 Charlie Tolley, a senior, was a thing that was going Howard stepped onto the 21-20 before finally beating 'V and pro-type set. In his 13 coach that Howard had never said, "It is a distinction to he has consistently been a pounds he played reserve to happen. I always expected rolling hills of Clemson 1931 the Tigers, 27-21, in the sec- seasons as head coach using beaten. The 6-4-0 season in have played in his last year. winner in the ACC and al- guard his sophomore year. it. It is for the good of the fresh from the varsity foot- ond Orange Bowl. The Tigers the single wing, Clemson won 1967 was the 20th in 29 that I hate to see him retire with football team." ways a threat against the 69, lost 47 and tied 7. In the the Tigers have finished .500 During Ms junior year he a losing season, but it was SEC." ball ranks at the University of played in the 1959 Sugar Bowl started every game but two He described Howard as and held No. 1-ranked Louis- 12 years of "T" teams, the or better under Howard. his decision." as good a man as you will Alabama where he was a first and an ankle injury sidelined stringer on Wallace Wade's iana State to a standstill be- Tigers won 71, lost 47 and Howard was named Southern He added that it was not find and one who will do tied 4.