Pool Resigns as Rams' Coach for 'Good of the Team' ?noting JHaf Is : OlivarandShaw lerps Betrayed Penn Five Helps Washington, D. C., Saturday, Dec. 18, 1904- A-12** The Tumult and the Shouting Are Mentioned By Poor Offense Erase Memory None of Great Coaches As Successors InLossfoDuke Os Grid Season f Head Man Follows Meeting High Scorer Basketball Team Matched Rockne's Appeal 5 Aides in Quitting In Tonight's Contest Upsets lowa to (This is the 17th of 24 ar- < <• Strife-Torn Club At North Carolina Remain Unbeaten tides from Grantland Rice’s By tha Associated Press autobiography. "The Tumult Spocial Dispatch to Tho Star By tha Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18. and the Shouting") Hampton Pool resigned last I*-",. CHAPEL HILL. N. C., Dec. 18. College football teams in Phila- night as head, coach ¦ —Maryland’s delphia probably had their worst of the Rams, basketball team By Grantland Rice year, saying he was doing so “for the encounters the Nation’s second season on record this but Knute Rockne was a man of good of team.” the alumni can’t complain about force, the scorer in average great deep charm and an Pool was not available for com- leading points- the prowess of the Pennsylvania amazing personality. Whenever ment. Neither was Dan Reeves, per-game in Lennie Rosenbluth : and Temple basketball teams there was a gathering of coaches president of the Rams. The brief of North Carolina here to date. in any city, there was usually 4.4 . tonight.j Pennsylvania, tabbed with announcement came from Pete A 4 but the Terps are more concerned just one question, “Where's Rozelle, Rams’ publicity man. Princeton and Cornell as the where about • their own offense than to Rock staying?” That's Pool completed sea- three schools fight it out for gathered. his third stopping Ivy League they all head coach last Sunday. tire Tar Heel sopho- the title, «taged a big been many fine son as upset last There have so Immediately after that game, in more. night in Philadelphia coaches, such great inventors as by knocking off lowa. 87-75. lowa which the Rams whipped the Maryland night Stagg and had Its worst j had been beaten only by Missouri Pop Warner, Lonnie Green Bay Packers, 35-27, his of the season percentagewise no one last in five games, is being Bob Zuppke, that can four assistant night, making only 16 of 62 shots and touted But Rockne coaches quit. to take over from pick the greatest. Next day, Pool’s first lieuten- as the Terps lost to Duke, 68-61,1 Indiana as was the greatest of all in the way Johnny Sauer, accepted in Durham The Blue Devils kingpin of the Big Ten. ant. the lowa led of human appeal. directorship gained revenge only at halftime. 38-35. as athletic and head for their attack, I consider Warner, Stagg and coaching job at The Citadel, loss of the season. Bill Logan sparked the but the the advance guard of the Charleston, S. Quaker's unlimbered their Yost GRANTLAND RICE. C. Maryland's record now is 3-2 big guns football inventors. I think that in a blistering second- Olivar Mentioned. ttvSKpi in all games and 2-2 in the At- half drive. Joe got Rockne and Percy Haughton We V- Sturgis 33 very little that day. were lantic Coast Conference. Duke jpoints, Lou Bayne 23 and Bart were two of the greatest coaches, . With Pool and his entire slate | away and winging the final picture, has a 4-1 season record and 3-1 with Rockne’s personality and i of assistants out of the Leach 21 for Penn, now unbeaten j was 33-7. But in the last quar- speculation began immediately mark in the conference, and ;in five rare human touch lifting him to ter ( games. lowa was rated the stands chanted Gipp’s ! on two possible successors. One North Carolina's record is 2-1. : 13th nationally this week. the front. Rockne had a colossal name so loud and long that I ! is Jordan Olivar, who has one It has won both its conference memory. I’ve been with him at Sent in a games. lowa Meets Princeton. finally him for few year left on a three-year con- clambakes in some big towns plays—on that ice-covered field Tonight lowa meets Princeton of strange faces | tract at Yale. Rosenbluth. one of several New in where clusters with the wind off Lake Michigan to one of several big games on ¦ would congregate around him. 1 ! He makes his home here when Yorkers follow Frank Mc- the college program ; cutting us all to the bone. I said St. that includes pick a face in the crowd ; not actively coaching. Olivar Guire. former John's coach, He'd out got him out of there, quick; but to North a Madison Square Garden meet- and go over and shake the ’ early today that the Rams had Carolina, has scored between fel- after returning to school with ; contacted him. 106 points in three games for ing two unbeaten giants, low's hand. not a LaSalle and Utah, and a battle a raging fever, Gipp went back The other possibility is Law- —AP Wlrephoto. 35.3 average, second only to “Isaw you . . . last spring . . . got up. at Lexington, Ky., between Ken- to his sick bed. He never rence T. (Buck) Shaw, deposed SUN SHADE FOR RACE TRACK—Tropical Park yesterday began using this 40-foot tower Freeman ol Ohio in in Atlanta.... Now don't tell me. with State the tucky and Temple. Temple (5-1) Pneumonia had him backed to 1 San Francisco Forty - Niner a canvas shield to eliminate a sun spot on the stretch turn where several spills have resulted NCAA statistics...... Bob Smith. Brooklyn . It’s Smith his goal He lived handed St. John’s of | own line. coach. Shaw is popular in one . when the late afternoon sun cast a glare on the racing strip, including opening day in Rosenbluth scored 30 against . . How are you, Bob?” its first defeat Thursday. | barely two weeks.” Southern California and his Clemson, And Bob Smith, or whoever, ! which Jockey Kenny Church yvas injured. 37 against South Caro- In fact, 8 of the top 10 in In December, 1930, Rock and teams have provided the Rams lina and would leave walking on clouds. I lunch together at the Park ¦ 39 against William & this week’s AP poll will see ac- had with some of their most potent Mary. The Tar That's one prime reason why as Lane Hotel. Despite the condi- Heels lost their | jtion. In addition to LaSalle (No. ( opposition. only game & many as 21 special trains were to William Mary.:11) and Kentucky (No. 2), Illinois tion of his legs, he moved pretty Pool’s resignation came a few Duke needed in the Chicago railyard good spirits. Departure of Ball Millner Talbert's Prediction had little difficulty in (No. 3) plays Notre Dame, North well and seemed in days after Reeves had said for and j when Notre Dame traveled to avenging the 49-47 loss at Col- j Carolina < 4) Hollywood wanted his technical third Would ! State No. meets Los Angeles to play Southern the time that Pool lege Park as the Blue Devils Tech. Dayton (No. 5) en- direction for a football picture, be head coach in 1955. (Texas Cal. Those trains were loaded and he wanted write the Gives Kuharich Free Hand Upheld in never were headed after they tertains College of Pacific, In- me to U. S. Rout broke 8-all | “with Rock’s friends.” I Team Dissension Revealed. under Doc Paul an tie. Duke's mar- diana (No. 7> plays Cincinnati, script. agreed. By Lewis F. Atchison Spears, Bryant gin was I believe that’s Rock It was known that there With 15 points at one time, UCLA (No. 8) plays San Fran- Top as Personal Salesman. where was and Clark Shaughnessy. although Maryalnd was heading when his plane, dissension in the team. This The resignation of Herman the Redskins he was associated Os Swedish Netmen threw a cisco and Niagara (No. 10) is at He was the greatest scare with a spurt that personal carrying a half-dozen other strife first came to public notice Ball and Wayne Millner as with DeGroot, Turk Edwards, By th* came Toledo. salesman known. | Associated Press ! within six points with than I’ve It was passengers, crashed in a Kansas i December 1 when some of the assistant coaches of the Red- Billick Whelchel, Dick Todd and less In addition to a«heavy sched- small wonder that at the time players disclosed that Pool had skins apparently means Coach BRISBANE, Australia, Dec four minutes to play. ( ule of regular games last night, i cornfield on March 31, 1931. Curly Lambeau. Maryland’s of his death, Rockne was slated The earlier football coaches ; severely criticized Tom Fears Joe Kuharich intends to make a student 18.—The United States completed sophomore, Bob • the first two of a score of major A keen of the game O’Brien, had his j to take over the presidency of were largely fanatics of : Dan Towler and Bobby Griffin clean break with the past and and one of ti»3 best liked men in top point night' Christmas tournaments-got un- He fantastic a 5-0 rout of Sweden in the in- of to tie the Studebaker Corp. would types. for their play in the Rams’ los o begin building a completely new the season Bob Kessler der way. i For example, after an t the league, Ball should have no terzone final of Cup Terp have been the Eddie Ricken- to the Chicago Bears, organization. the Davis for scoring honors with 17 , Illinois-Michigan game, Yost and I trouble catcning on with another points. West Virginia Beats Deacons. backer of the automotive in- Zuppke Pool admitted be had ertti- competition today behind the : were discovered still on i The resignations were an- club. A disciple of Clark Virginia dustry. However, Rock was cized his men on occasion and booming ! Ronnie Mayer, who was slowed : West defeated favored the field in a violent argument , nounced late yesterday by Gen- Shaughnessy s T-formation sys- racquets of Tony Tra- ! Wake Forest, 86-82, and Ala- hardly the prototype of the ac- I defended his right to do so. to a walk in the game at College ! at 10 o’clock that night. eral Manager Dick McCann, tem and close friend of the bert and Hamilton Richardson. Park, bama drubbed Texas, 89-54, in cepted picture of dynamic big- Reeves had backed topped Duke with 20 It was Zuppke who invented him to the after a conference between Ball veteran coach Ball condensed Trabert, from Cincinnati, points. ; the Birmingham Classic. The btisiness brass. His dress—a gray ; hilt. . of verbiage T | and first used the huddle. It was and George Marshall, president much the of the whose game had been far off ; Maryland. G.F.Pts Puk*. G F Pts. I winners meet tonight for the or blue suit—was neat but sel- ' | The Rams, favored by some to Kessler,f 5 717 Mayer,f S ; Stagg who used the direct pass of the club. Ball’s contract ex- into simpler terms a couple of before the start of the round i 42U | title. Wake Forest’s Dickie Hcm- dom pressed. His hats—brim win the Western Division title years It ! Diiworth.f 2 1 5 Kalfus.f 2 n 4 I | from center to the ball carrier, pires January 1, while Millner ago. made it easier to two days ago, Everett,c 1 f»l! Tobin, f 0 2 2 ; ric tallied 43 points in a losing turned up, capping a kewpie- crushed Lennart Fuquay.c (I ' of the National Football League, completed his call signals and to understand I 0 4 4 Lamley.f O o : doll skull and bashed, pixy with the quarterback eliminated. contract last Sun- Bergelin, 6—2, 6—l, 3—6, 6—2. S'dbower.* 2 :i 7 Moraan.c 2 2 Hi cause. a ; finished with a record of six them. Bal) the line, O'Brien.g 6 517 Doherty.c . Yost never listened to anyone day, when the final game was cgached Richardson, substituting for Vic 2 ft a At Montgomery. Ala., in the nose—made him an incongruous ' wins, five losses and one tie. scouted games and player pros- Lakata.c 11 ;t | an argument, but ho knew played. Seixas, who was given the day Belmont.e 7 2 10 Blue-Gray tourney, Tennessee picture the first time you saw |in . ./They placid fourth in (the pects, ft football. I asked Pop Warner di- and at various times was in off by Capt. BillyTalbert, rushed Turner.* 4 O him. vision, the worst showing for Los Kuharich would not discuss charge of personnel. won over Miami (Fla.), 89-80, once, in Yost’s presence, who plans for replacing past Sven Davidson, 6—o, 6—3, Totals It! 20 fil Totals 2H 10 08 and Auburn throughout I recall I was with Westbrook 1 Angeles since 1947. the coaches. Halltime score: Duke. 38; Mary- ’ led to clip the spiral 6—3. land, Pegler—who didn’t meet ’invented pass. Stydahar. It was an amicable parting of Never Played in League. 33. Washington and Lee. 91-81. The him ‘ Succeeded I until Rock was famous. Peg “Yost,” Warner said, looking Three ways, with Ball and Millner re- Herman of the few Thus the final score came out !| winners play tonight in the directly seasons ago Pool suc- was one was amazed. at him. “He also in- ceeded his boss, signing to give Kuharich a free men to coach a pro team who 5-0, just as Talbert had predicted. 1 finals. everything \ i Joe Stydahar. “He looks like a beaten up vented else in the Stydahar hand in rebuilding the staff he didn’t play in the league. He Numerous experts here thought Michigan State, which plays game.” Yost seriously j took over with the Chi- Tampa tin can," Peg wrote. | thanked cago The rivalry inherited from Curly Lambeau. had his share of ups and downs, the Swedes had a good chance Wins Another Pennsylvania tonight, had an jPop for the Cardinals. be- Rockne never forgave him. admission. tween the two Backfield Coach Mike Nixon, finishing his on? full season at of upsetting the Americans and easy time defeating Princeton. gaunt coaches has re- Saturday Yost had a fire in his mained bitter, Stydahar hired by Kuharich, will return, the helm with a 3-9 record, advancing to the challenge round 79-67, in another Big Ten-Ivy evenings during foot- system that he passed to his accusing Cigar season, used on Pool of undermining him. but Joe prefers to wait a while which Kuharich matched this against the Aussies December Bowl Battle clash last night. Princeton’s ball we to have team. He came to Michigan in 1 “open house” at our During his first as head before filling the vacancies. year. 27-28-29. By the Associated Press Bud Haabestad collected 33 apartment 1901 and was undefeated in season —with food and any 56 coach Pool led the Rams into a Millner, one of the Redskins’ TAMPA, Dec. 18—An points. drink for games before being beaten, 2-0, Ball’s Plans Indefinite. Richardson Big Surprise. Fla., and all cooches who tie for the division champion- all-time great ends, won All- alert, j Cornell, defending champion, happened by Stagg and Chicago in 1905. Ball, a member of the Wash- But there was no stopping Tal- powerful University of to be in the neighborhood. ship, but lost in a playoff with America honors at Notre Dame. Tampa football team, 21-0 victor moved into first place in the (I, ington organization since 1944 bert’s finely trained crew. The Ivy loop by remember Yost used to sit there Couldn’t Lose Argument. Detroit, 31-21. Gaining second He had a fling as head coach of over Morris Harvey last night, is defeating Brown, when he became a game scout Philadelphia big surprise was the sterling per- 52-44, with his ear cocked into the | Ring Lardner place that year, the Rams the Eagles in 1951, the Cigar Bowl football cham- and undefeated Dart- was traveling while still an assistant coach at he : formance turned in by young mouth routed 74-57. radio trying to catch the scores with Yost in the early 1920 when slipped to third last year and to ; when took command after Bo pion for the second time in three Harvard. s this the University of Maryland, said But Wayne Richardson, the national inter- Columbia made it 4-0 by down- despite the noise of the crowd.) ; some argument came up fourth season. McMillin’s death. years. about his future plans are indefinite. left post early in the collegiate champion from Tulane ing Navy, for the Middies' Those coffee klatches were great the Miehigan-Pennsylvania game Stydahar brought Pool to the that 1952 About 6.500 persons saw the 77-70. There is a chance that he will campaign Washing- University. loss in five games. fun, and many times w’ere re- j of 1906. Rams in 1950 as backfield coach. to return to game, played annually for the fourth Co- enter private business. If not, ton, where He #as nothing short of lumbia sophomore Chet Forte sponsible- for some pretty fair “Penn 17-0,” That year the Rams set 22 league he could sell autos as (benefit of the Crippled i won that one, he may go to the league meeting superb in downing Davidson, Shrine got 39 points. columns. Also, whenever he was Ring said. records, but lost the title in a well as coach. He, too, did much Children’s Hospital. next month to talk to other who earlier this year the in town for the Army game, “No, close one with Cleveland. 30-28. game-scouting for the Redskins won Holy Cross Beats Providence. Michigan won it.” Yost j coaches and team officials. American indoor championship The lighter West Virginia team Rock would,come up for a late said. “That The Rams won the champion- this season, and the informa- played Tampa Holy Cross thumped Provi- was the year we had Millner is in the automobile tion in New York. The Swede, how- on almost even “brunch” on Sunday. In ’23 and a ship in 1951. contained in his reports is terms in the first half, dence, 101-47, and Penn State Garrels, great fullback." sales business here during the ever, was no for Richard- with the '24, he brought along his little "Penn won it,” credited with the team’s im- match Gettysburg. 97-61. Unde- Ring repeated. Began Career at Stanford. off-season and plans to devote proved performance. son. His service ranged from help of Tampa fumbles and a beat quarterback, Harry Stuhldreher, “That was the year |. seated Seton Hall they had Pool began his career his full time to it. Millner came to the poor to honendous and the de- touchdown nullified by a penalty. | rolled over for bacon, eggs and coffee. The Scarlett and Greene.” football Redskins In the second half Morris Har- William & Mary, 109-89, for an ! at Stanford, where he made All- One of the Redskins’ eight in 1936, their last year in Bos- livery merely set up kills. recollection of Rockne’s “brain,” i \ Finally Yost bet Ring $5, a i vey fumbles gave Tampa all-time school scoring mark, al- Coast fullback in 1939. His pro former head coaches, Ball prob- ton, and player on their great two Stuhldreher, sitting there all;(tremendous bet for Yost. They Trabert’s match provided the Spartans though the losers’ Johnny Ma- (football days began in 1940 when ably survived more, coaching up- championship teams of 1937 and him with good opportunity (opportunities were slicked up, his feet not even looked it up in a record ; a to quick capitalize honey scored 37 points. Art i book. he played with the Chicago heavals than any other man in 1942. He also played on the to on for the de- reaching the floor, is a picture Score—Pennsylvania, 17; Michi- work on his service. Tony’s cisive touchdowns. Quimby got 35 points as un- and Bears. He remained with that football. At Maryland, the one- teams that won division titles in delivery is one of the strongest that Kit I treasure. : gan, o. time Davis-Elkins The passing of Quarterback beaten Connecticut routed Amer- team for four seasons, playing lineman served 1940 and '45. i points in hi* game, and without Tells of Gipp’s Death. | “I told you Pennsylvania won.” end. Bill Minahan, the pass catching ican International. 103-78. Yost said. it, he is vulnerable to some one “You Gipp He was in the Navy in J of Halfback Don Herndon and Houston, favored with Wichita saw on one of his "You are right.” said Lardner, 1944-5. I like Lew Kcaa the Australian. in the Missouri Valley Confer- better Army in In 1946 he was the running of Fullback A1 days—against who had named assistant Trabert Gives It His All. Leathers ence, remained unbeaten by 1920,” us once Penn. coach of the Miami Seahawks in Durocher, Manager of were the chief Tampa Rock told in a Yost refused to any mon- , j Year, weapons. cracking Detroit's five-game tone. “He take the defunct All-America Trabert, a former University quiet, hushed fell sick ey, but he beamed the thought Confer- of winning streak, 77-69. later that same season. In in ence. The following year he was Cincinnan basketball player, Morris Harvey’s chief threat Don our ! that he was “right.” Says gave it his all, Boldebuck hit 32 points for final against Northwestern, at backfield coach for the Chicago Team Should Get Award really and one was Halfback Jim Carr, the j “The reason I knew he was ! would have thought he was night’s leading ground gainer Houston. The teams meet again Evanston, he climbed out of bed Rockets of the same league. By th* Associated Press ! won National League pennants In 1948-9 he playing the deciding match of with 103 yards in 12 carries, in- tonight. to make the trip. I used him (See RICE, Page A-13.) was backfield LOS before—in 1941 with the Dodgers coach at Jose State ANGELES, Dec. 18.—Leo ( the challenge round. cluding a 48-yard run. Texas Tech Beats Furman. San and manager : and 10 years later with the San Valley Durocher, named of the Poor Bergelin thought Leathers topped Tampa with ' There was high scoring Bernardino College, year ( Giants, he had other both in in a landslide vote, said to- b?en hit by a Never- 92 yards in 14 plays and was out- action in the South where California. day: Against hurricane. Texas Cleveland his choice theless. the sellout crowd of 7,000 standing on defense. Tech outraced Furman, 111-103. Kiner, Reynolds Chief Topics pinch pitch- “The players ought to get that of hitters relief that jammed the Milton Courts Tampa gained 168 yards on Jim Reed of ers was phenomenally Texas scored 41 award. I don’t know how you successful. reserved a loud cheer for Len- the ground and 108 in the air i points, while Darrell Floyd had At Players' Meeting Today BobßakerNowWants can arrange to give it to all the “Sure; he says “Itap a fel- nart every time he got in a good to Morris Harvey’* 113 running 38 for Furman. Virginia de- fellows my low on the shoulder And he and by passing. Clemson, By Associoted on club but that’s and tell him, shot. when won the 18 feated 100-94. Bill th« Pr*s» had a 13-4 record with the Yanks get a (’go up set, Morris Harvey 0 0 0 0— 0 where it belongs. 1 didn’t there and hit. But it was third the crowd went wild. Tampa Yarborough set a Clemson record / _ 0 7 14 o—2l last season. “I can Tampa NEW YORK. Dec. 18.—Ralph understand To Meet Valdes Again hit or field a ball all summer.” the players who got the hits. I “It was a good win,” Talbert scorinf: Touchdowns. Gam- ' with 40 points and Virginia’s Bill their viewpoint. I’m not trying didn't If they’d orell. Leathers. Herndon. Conversions, Kiner and Allic Reynolds, who By tha Associated Press Durocher climaxed a brilliant | struck out said after the match. Gambrell Colvard 2. Wilkinson had 35. to pressure them. I'm still not where would new Dec. 18. Big year by leading the New York j 1 have been? Duke turned the tables on usually do most of the talking sure about playing. I have to f YORK. “You know,” Leo concluded, Bob Baker is a generous soul, Giants tp- a four-game sweep Maryland. 68-61, in an Atlantic for their fellow major leaguers, get several points settled in my “I’venever had a finer Moore Heads Coast Loop ( jHe wants to give Nino Valdes a j over the Cleveland Indians in I vacation Coast Conference game, and own mind.” ; than I’ve had this winter. And Foul Against Fans PULLMAN, Wash., Dec. 18 (IP). ¦; figure to be the subject of con- chance to “redeem himself” for j the World Series. He received 316 Richmond won a Southern Con- the players made that possible.” —Emmet B. Moore, chairman of ; versation today as the majors’ Reynolds said his back, trou- the fight he lost to him 16 of the 426 votes cast by sports ference test from VMI, 94-74. the seasons, writers Allows Wakefield the civil engineering department j player representatives blesome last few months ago. and sportscasters in the UCLA maintained its unbeaten 16 hold coming at Washington College, "has been along in good After whipping Coley Wallace Associated Press poll. State has i status by defeating Santa Clara, their annual winter meeting. To Beat Annandale been president i1 shape, but I don't know how it for the third time (once in the 1 A1 Lopez of Cleveland was sec- Brown Says He'll Play elected of the