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Beattie Feath his step and a druthers he wo coaching footbaJ But Feathers reached retirem the end of this ~ Forest since 1 Hildebrand's s freshman coac recruiter, kickill He is one of th was an All-Amel all-pro back wi tIJ the first man lj season in pro foo defense as well. Football Hall of the Green Bay P ed at Appalachia Wolfpack to the Texas Tech befo He also play might have beel • juries hadn't slo Football is bll happy as workinj school game or . "There's no fi . kid's face and Sl wins or the disal> Feathers. "That ing and losing is anywhere but in Feathers was I players was the become a Wake "Piccolo caml back." said Fea speed to be a hl fullback. He was how to run even UPI .Te)ephoIO "1 remember In this 1968 pboto, Beattie Featbe ~s instructs Wake football player Chick George. Carolina to play i

., VL llI"U~dTl I e are gomg (() DU~ lVlaOlson Square Garden lOCk , stocrana Garden rell1SeU to accept All'S last Ifgnt agamst t;nuc wepoer en know if the barrel " King promised. He said his group was offering $36 and we want to make sure Ali's fights can be staged tbere in mi1li~ for the New York complex. future for the benefit of Moslems around tile world." Beattie Feathers A Football Legend Retires at 66

By Mary Garber lZame and we were behind 20-0 at the baH. Dan didn't play much until his senior year. He was a the them. 5atf Reporter Reeves was quarterback for At the good passer and a smart player. He just didn't half, I drew up a dealing defense to stop their at­ I fit into the offense until Coach Tate came in." Beattie Feathers still walks with a spring in tack. It worked. Brian scored four touchdowns Feathers recruited Larry Hopkins, \fbo his step and a glint in his eye. If he had his in the second half and we beat them 26-20." helped Wake Forest win an ACC championship. druthers he would spend the rest of his life Feathers picked John Mackovic, who played coaching football or at least working with kids. "I saw Hopkins play at Lees-McRae," _ id quarterback with Piccolo, as one of the top fo'eatbers. "I could see be had quickness and But Feathers will be 66 in August. He has Wake Forest backs. reached retirement age and he will "retire" at " He was a fine quarterback even though he See the end of this school year. He has been at Wake Feathers, Page If (od Forest since 1961 when he came to join Bill Hildebrand's staff. In 14 years he bas been freshman coach, varsity assistant, scout, recruiter, kicking coach and baseball coach. He is one of the all-time greats of footbalL He · Hampton Will Host was an All·American halfback at Tennessee, aa all-pro back with in 1934. He was the first man to gam 1,000 yards in a single season in pro football and he did it while playilll 1 6 CIAA Tour defense as well. He's a member of the National Football Hall of Fame. He played pro ban witll HAMPTON, Va. AP) - The Central touhtament Greensboro, officials the and Brooklyn. He coac. Intercollegiate Athl . Association an­ reensboro Coliseum bad ' ed at Appalachian and at N.C. State, taking the nounced Monday it WI hold its 1976 sugges .that the format of the tourna­ Wolfpack to the Gator Bowl in 1946. He was at basketball tournament at Hampton men e changed next year to include Texas Tech before coming to Wake Forest. fo teams from the CIAA and four from He also played professional baseball and Coliseum. Dates for the to ent are might have been a big leagUer if football ia­ Feb. 26-28. e MidEast Athletic Conference. juries hadn't slowed him up. The championship tournament for e Vaughan said·the CIAA rejected the t Football is his first love and be's never 90 last 12 yeprs has been held in Gree suggestion on grounds such a format happy as working on the field or scouting a high sboro. / uld reduce not only the CIAA's in- school game or just talking about the game. Robert L. Vaughan. basketball ~cb co from the \tournament but would "There's no finer thing than looking into • a nd athletic director at Elizabe City dimim the tournament's prestige. kid's face and seeing the exhiliration when be State and president of th 1 ember wins or the disappointment when he loses," sa" •'The C is recognized by the NCAA · CIAA, said the conference h signed a as the seco rgf'St basketball tourna- Feathers. "That great difference between wina­ contract to use the coliseu ere for the ing and losing is something that you don't get ment in the co -,:y, second only to the anywhere but in athletics." 1976 tournament, with r ewal clauses Atlantic Coast onference tour­ Feathers wu freshman coacb and one of hill for 1977 and 1978. nament," Vaughan "This is where it st ed for the CIAA, players was the late Brian Piccolo, who h. "We've grossed over $\{lO,OOO the last ' become a Wake Forest legend himself. back in 1912 at Ha pton Institute, so "Piccolo came to Wake Forest as a half­ we're actually co ng home," Vaughan nine years. We estimate w can take in back," said Feathers. "I didn't feel he had the said. • close to $150,000 at the ampton speed to be a halfback, so I switched him to Announcement of the shift of the tour­ Coliseum ." fullback. He was a strong runner and he knew nament site came at a news conference Other cities that had sought the tour­ how to run even then. called by the city of Hampton nament included Richmond, Va., Nor­ "I remember that year we went to Sou , As an a1t~rnative to removal of the folk, Va., and Charlotte. Carolina to play its freshmen. They hadn't lost 8

. , Feathers -Dies After Illness By Mary Garber loses. This great difference in rookie, and averaged 11.8 yards St," It.,mer winning and losing is per carry, a record that still Beattie Feathers, a Wake sODlething you don't get stands. And he set that Dlark Forest assistant football coach anywhere but in athletics." while playing both on offense and member of the National Feathers was the freshDlan _ and defense. Football Hall of Fame, died coach when he brought Brian Feathers was injured and his here Saturday after a brief il~ Piccolo to Wake Forest. "I football playing career caDle lness. He was 69. thought he was too slow to play to an end after he had played He died 'while he was still do­ halfback, so I switched hiDl to with the Bears, the BooklYIl ing the job he loved most of all, fullback," Feathers said. football Dodgers and the eoaching football. Football Piccolo went on to lead the Packers. was never a profession to Beat­ nation in rushing and scoring He coached at Appalachian, tie Feathers; it was a his senior year at Wake N.C. State and Texas Tech philosophy, a religion, a way of Forest, to play with the before CODling to Wake Forest Bfe. . . Chicago Bears and later to die in 1961 as freshman coach. He When he was 66, he of cancer: joined the varsity staff in 1964. "retired." He was honored at Feathers also recruited Lar­ His assignDlents were the Wake Forest All Sports ry Hopkins, another fine Wake varied, and once in trying to banquet and given a set of golf Forest fullback, who is now a explain his role, he said, "I clubs. But Feathers had no in­ doctor. Feathers saw Hopkins guess you would call Dle a at Lees-McRae, liked his utility Dlan. I do anything I can tention of quit~ing. He was quickness and got hiDl to join to help." ~ck on the job as soon as he could talk Athletic Director the Deacons. BEATrIE FEATHERS There couldn't have been a into letting him In 1975 Feathers was asked bett.4:r description of Beattie back. And he stayed with the to pick the top backs at Wake any information about hiDlself. Feathers. Wake Forest football prograDl Forest. One of his selections Many Wake Forest football He is survived. by his wife, until a heart attack sent hiDl to was a forDler quarterback players came through the the forDler Inez WilliaDll, . tile hospital last Thursday. nam,ed John Mackovic. prograDl, knew Feathers and three daughters, Mrs. Brenda The year was divided into "He was a fine quarter­ never realized that he was one Stewart of Advance,,Mrs. Lynn two parts for Feathers. There back," Feathers said, "even of the all-tiDle greats. Meadows of Win.ston-Sal1:Dl, was the glorious fall when though he didn't play Dluch un­ He grew up in Bristol, a city and Mrs. JaRe Taylor of Dal­ practice was every day and til his st!nior year. He was a which was split by the las, Texas, and seven gaDles were saturday. There good passer and a sDlart • Virginia-Tennessee line. He grandchildren. was spring when spring drills player. " first played football on a Funeral services will be held came to bring a few bright Feathers also used to talk Dlldget team coached by a Dlan at Vogler's Reynolda. Chapel at days. The rest of the year was about the ones who got away, named . Fatty Byrd, who split 2 p.m. Tuesday, with the Rev. 4rab and uninteresting, except such as Charles Young, Willie the kids into two teaDlS. Warren Carr and Dr. L. A. for the tiDle when he travelled Burden, and "If your dad could buy you a Hollingsworth presiding'. The the country, scouting for young Lydell Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell unifofDl, you had one. I played family will receive friends talent for the Deacons. had signed a Wake Forest in overalls," Feathers recal­ from 7-9 p.m. Monday. Recruiting y{asn't as in­ grant but Lydell went to Penn led. teresting as coaChing football, State. He went to' Tennessee, where bllt it kept hiDl around the "You can't tell how a kid will he ran, passed, was a pass Georgia Downs sport and around young Dlen do by looking at hiDl," receiver, punter and defensive and this Dleant a lot. Feathers used to say. "I try to player. He played tailback Deaes in Tennis look for speed, bot a good back SODle, wingback on passing Just before ChristDlas a few ATHENS, Ga. - Wake years ago, I caught hiDl hurry­ has to be able to run over peo­ plays and blocking back at ple, too." times. Forest players captured vic-' ing out of the Wake Forest torles in only one single and football office. Feathers was an All­ He liked playing defense America back at Tennessee in because "I got -the chabce to two doubles Dlatches as the " Hey, Beattie," I said, kid­ University of Georgia rolled ding him, "are you going to go 1931-33. He was all-Southern hit the guys who had hit Dle." Conference two years lmd con­ During the SUDlDler, past the Deacons 6-3 yester­ recruiting ChristDlas day?" day. He didn't think that was fun­ ference player of the year as a Feathers played semipro and . ny. senior. pro baseball. It wasn't legal, John DePew outlasted Bill He was a Dlernber of the ''l'm not planning to right 'but it was the only way Beattie Petrusky 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, and the National Football Hall of now," he answeted seriously, could Dlake the money he Deacons' doubles teaDlS of Ar­ FaDle and a DleDlber of the needed to stay in school. "but if I can talk to a kid on mand Molino-TODl Kieffer and pro's I,OOO-yard club, Dlade up Feathers signed with the ChristDlas day, I'll go." DePew-Topi Hayrinen took of players who gained 1,000 Chicago Bears after his close matches froDl their oppo­ Because he 'was a quiet Dlan, . yards rushing in a single graduation from Tennessee, at nents. few people knew how he felt seaton. When he played for the a time when pro football about things, but his love for Chicago Bears in 1934, he was wasn't the Dloney-rnaking Georgia 6, Wake For.st 3 sports and for football, in par­ the first NFL player to reach proposition it is now. Singles - Wes Cash (G) def. Armand Molino 6·4, 6·2; Brent Crymes (G) del. AI· • ticular, was deep and abiding. that Dlark. "I was paid $200 a gaDle for len Farfour 6·1 , 6-2; Paul Groth (G) del. "There's no finer thing," he He was sODlething of a foot­ Tom Kiefter 6-.,6·2; Peter Lloyd (G) del_ 12 gaDles," he recalled. "I got Gray Yancey 6·2,6-• . John Manguan (G) told Dle once in a rare display ball legend. If you asked hiDl a a percentage of my salary for del. Randy Kushma 7·6, 6·2; John DePew (WF) del. Bill Petrusky 6·1. 3'6, 6·3. of eloquence, "than looking question, he'd answer it, and if . the exhibition games, and I Doubles - Molino·Kiefter (WF) del_ into a kid's face and seeing the you prodded hiDl, he would guess I Dlade about $3,500 that Groth·Mangan 6- 3. 6·7, 6·1; Lloyd· · Maloney (G) del . Farlour·Yancey 6·3,7· exhilaration when he wins or spin tales of football in the old first year." 6; DePew·Topl Hayrinen (WF) del. 'he disappointment when he days. But he never volunteered He gained 1,052 yards as a March-Petrusky 7-6, 7·5. - Feathers' Tributes Pour .In; Longtime Coach Was ..69 The' story goes that Beattie Feathers himself, " said Wake Forest Athletic Direc­ frustrated many a sports infonnation direc· tor Gene Hooks. "He was hard-working, tor and reporter by claiming not to know his capable and honest and completely loyal, es­ exact birthdate. pecially during the rough times. Losing him The legend grew that he was ageless. will create a void at Wake Forest that will be He defied his age by approaching every impossible to fill. It just won't be be the position he was asked to fill with enthusiasm. same around here without him."· He had a great affection for sports and the Wake Forest's athletic brochures had young men who played them. listed Feathers, an IS-year veteran of the Feathers died Saturday evening at Forsyth school's staff, as an adviser to the football Memorial Hospital after an apparept heart program. attack had interrupted his weekly schedule - It had also listed him as retired when three nights earlier. The family said he was school officials thought Feathers had 69. Feathers, an assistant football coach at reached the voluntary retirement age of 66, , at one time played but he had soon convinced Hooks to let him for the Chicago Bears. continue a near-full time involvement with To those players, coaches, administrators the football program under Coach Chuck and friends who shared the contributions to Mills and now Mackovic. athletic programs he touched, the memories Feathers had started his stay at Wake of Feathers' efforts were and will be Forest in 1961 as a freShman coach and in the timeless. interim, would serve the school as a varsity "Coach Feathers is one of the most football staff member for six head coaches beloved of all football coaches I have ever and also as the Deacons' baseball coach from been associated with," said Wake Forest 1972-1976. coach John Mackovic, a former Deacon Feathers' sports career began on the player under Feathers. "I had great respect sandlots of Bristol, Va. , and carried him and admiration for him as a player and that through a collegiate football career at the actuallY' grew when I came back and he and professional worked for me. His dedication and will·­ football and baseball and coaching positions ingness to contribute will be missed. at Appalachian State, N. C. State, Fort "He and I had a great assoch.tion as a Jackson, S. C., and Texas Tech. player. He looked at things other than just a Feathers was voted into the NFL's Hall of player's physical ability and he gave me Fame in 1955 and was also a member of the LATE DEACON COACH - 8eaHie Fealhers, who coached foolball and great encouragement. He was like a father­ Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame. baseball 01 Woke Forest the post 18 years, died Saturday night after suffering . Fuuel'at-services are scheduled for tomor· figure to me in that respect. I guess he wall ·0 heart aHack lhis post Thursday. Feathers is shown here with a plaque that to a lot of athletes he coached." row afternoon at 2 p.m. at Vogler's Chapel on •'Coach Feathers was in a class by Reynolda Road . awarded him for his pro football exploits,

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