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A T H L E T I C S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION BLAKE R. VAN LEER, Chairman Faculty Members P. B. NARMORE L. W. CHAPIN W. A. ALEXANDER C. M. GRIFFIN T. H. EVANS H. A. WYCKOFF ROBERT E. LEE DODD Alumni Members R. B. WILBY L. W. PARKER W. A. PARKER Student Members j. 0. PAINE D. C. KYKER N. V. MILLSAP N. C. TURNER R. T. DAVIS C. R. SCHNEIDER GEORGIA TECH COACHING STAFF WILLIAM A. ALEXANDER, Athletic Director DWIGHT KEITH, Back field Coach and Sports Publicity Director Coach Alexander is one of die countrys best known coaches. Ile was head football coach in The Flats from Coach Keith attended high school in Birmingham, 1920 until 1945, when he turned over die job to Bobby Alabama, where he participated in every sport and was Dodd, his backfield coach. Under his close guidance named to the All-State football, basketball, and baseball Tech has broadened her athletic program, and in the teams. He was captain of the football and basketball past ten years has won conference championships in teams in his final year. football, basketball, track, cross country, swimming, After Isis graduation from high school he entered the fencing, and tennis. ""Football,University of Alabama, where Ise played football, basket- ball, and baseball. Since his graduation in 1924 he has In 1942,, Coach Alexander was elected Football coached football at five different schools over a period of Coach of the Year"" by the poll conducted by the he New eighteen years. He was named varsity backfield coach York World - Telegram. Besides being head coach at at Georgia Tech in March, 1945. Tech, Coach Alexander has served for many years as a member of the National Football Rules Committee, He has served as secretary of the Georgia Athletic and is a former president of the American Football Coaches Association since 1938 nad is editor and publisher Coaches Association, of t he Southern Coach and Athlete. ROBERT WOODRUFF, Line Coach ROBERT E. LEE DODD, !lead Football Coach Coach Woodruff, a native Georgian, attended high Bobby Dodd was born in Galax, Virginia, and at- school in Savannah, Georgia, and upon graduation in 1934 he enrolled at the University of Tennessee at Knox- tended high school in Kingsport, Tennessee, where as an ville. In January of 1942 he entered the Army and all-roundd athlete he participated in four sports. After he rank of captain . his graduation front high school he entered the Univer- soon was promoted to the sit y of Tennessee, and during his time there he was In 1944, he went to West Point as an assistant coach, active in football, baseball and basketball. Ile was out - where he bel lied teach football to the National Cham- standing in football as a field general and in 1930 was pionship Army teams of 1944 and 1945. Coach Wood- chosen All-American quarterback. ruff came to Georgia Tech in the spring of 1946, and since that time he has tutored the varsity line. Ile has He came to Georgia Tech in 1931 as varsity backfield a clever, aggressive mind and is a tireless worker. In coach under Coach Alexander, in which posit ion he Isis first year he rendered one of the finest jobs of line served until the spring of 1945 when Coach Alexander coaching in die South, making the Yellow Jacket line retired. Coach Dodd has been instrumental in making one of the best in the nation . Georgia Techs offense one of the most colorful in the nation. ROY MCARTHUR, Varsity Basketball Coach a n d In his first yeas as head coach, Coach Dodd faced Fool ball Seoul one of the most rugged schedules ever outlined for the Coach McArthur is a graduate of City I Kith School Yellow Jackets. With fair material, he came through t he in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After leaving high school season with four victories out of ten games. He switched tended college at Georgia Tech, where he played Techs offense from the single wing to the deceptive T he at quarterback on the football team and guard the formation, and with t he groundwork of 1945 he was able basketball team. After his graduation from Tech in to moldmo a t ea m that upset LSU and Duke and won 1933 he was retained as B team coach and assistant eight ofo teten gamesga i n 1946.1 basketball coach. Twice during the 46 season he was named "Coach He served in the Coast Artillery from 1942 to Feb- of t he Week" in the Southeastern Conference—once ruary of 1946 and after his discharge he was appointed after the resounding wits over powerful LSU and again Varsity Basketball Coach and football scout. after the Jackets swamped a deceptive Tulane eleven. JOE H. PITTARD,B Team Coach and RAY ELLIS, Assistant Coach Varsity Baseball Coon h Coach Pittard attended high school in Winterville, Coach Ellis came to Georgia Tech in the spring of Georgia, where he was a member of the baseball, basket- 1945 after serving for many years as head coach of the ball, and track teams. He completed the requirements football and basketball teams at Madisonville high School fur a degree at Vanderbilt and t he University of Georgia in Madisonville, Kentucky. Coach Ellis went to high gia, and served as athletic director at Gainesville High school in LaGrange, Kentucky, and afterwards attended School in Gainesville, Georgia, until March of 1943, at the University of Kentucky. which time lie came to Georgia Tech. Ile was appointed line coach of the Yellow jackets in His 1946 baseball team blasted the Red and Black four 1945 and in 1946, When Bob Woodruff was named to consecutive times and won ten out of twelve games; coach the Tech line, Ile was promoted to the position of and the B team under his direction was one of the major assistant coach. factors in producing the fine 46 football team. Ro y Mundorff , Assistant Athletic Director in track. After his graduation from Georgia Tech in 1937 he accepted the position of freshman football coach and assistant track coach. In 1944 Coach Coach Mundorff came to Georgia Tech in September of 1922 as Freshman Dean was appointed track coach and since that time has served as a football basketball coach and part time instructor in the Math department. In 1925, scout and "B" Team football coach in addition to his duties as track coach. he was named head basketball coach in The Flats, and as such was instrumental in developing such stellar court performers as Bo Johnston, Bill Jordan, Fletcher Sims, and the present head basketball coach, Roy MacArthur. He served as President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1933 and during the 18 years he was head mentor for the Tech court team, he arranged numerous colorful intersectional games with teams in the Mid-West E. E. BOATEL!, Varsity Tennis Coach and East. In 1943 Coach Mundorff entered the Navy and was transferred Coach Borten attended high school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and upon from Tech. He returned in 1945 and took up the duties of Assistant Athletic graduation entered the University of Michigan to study chemical engineering, Director. After completing his graduate work at the Universities of Michigan anti Pennsylvania, he came to Tech as an instructor in the Physics Department Varsity Track Coach NORRIS DEA N, Borten became tennis coach in 1931, and since that time his tennis squads Coach Dean is a graduate of Georgia Tech and of Meridian High School, have won many SEC championships. The Jacket tennis team is now coasting Meridian, Mississippi, where he played football, basketball, and participated along on a 29-game winning streak which began back in 1943. FALL The 46 YELLOW JACKETS The 1946 Yellow Jacket Team was truly yards running and passing from formation one of the greatest football combines ever to score 243 points, and used the punt effec carry the White and Gold banner on the tively with a season average of 40 yard gridiron. At the end of the 1945 campaign The Jackets played their best games of the the Tech eleven elected Bob Davis, stellar season against Tennessee, LSU, and Duke tackle on the 45 team, and George Mathews, while in winning over Navy and losing t speedy halfback, to act as Captain and Alter- Georgia they showed bad form. nate Captain, respectively, for the 1946 Not one of the 33,000 homecoming far season. will ever forget George Mathews 95-yar This year Georgia Tech faced one of the sprint against Navy to pull what looked roughest schedules in the country. Cer- certain defeat into a great Tech victory over tainly the way the jackets came through an unfortunate Middie team from Annapoli it with sensational wins over powerful LSU, Other long runs of the season were turned i Duke, and inspired Navy, while losing to by Pat McHugh, who raced 68 yards for once-beaten Tennessee and unbeaten Georgia touchdown against LSU, ran an Auburn is no disgrace. Coach Bobby Dodd called his punt back 52 yards, and returned a Nay 1946 charges the fines t spirited team he ever pass 51 yards to set up Techs fourth touch coached, and the thousands of fans that saw down against the Middies. Pat also was Tech fight from behind to win those great stalwart defensive player and one of Tech LSU and Navy games will agree with this most dependable tacklers. statement. At t he close of the regular season play in The line, unscored on until the seventh 1946 the Yellow Jackets voted to accept the game, sweated out long a rduous hours of bid offered to them to play in the 1947 C blocking and tackling fundamentals under Bowl contest in Houston, Texas, thus mal the watchful eyes of Techs industrious line Mg Georgia Tech the first school to ha, mentor, Bob Woodruff.