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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Records WKU Archives 1-1-1959 UA19/17/1/4 WKU Football Press Guide WKU Athletic Media Relations Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records Recommended Citation WKU Athletic Media Relations, "UA19/17/1/4 WKU Football Press Guide" (1959). WKU Archives Records. Paper 776. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/776 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BOWLING GRE EN, KENTUCKY 1959 Head Coach Nlck· Denes For Press, Radio and information . Furtherbe sent u I pIctures or rna . Television COCDAN pon request b y .. ts wIll ROBERT • • . WESTERN . STATE Bowling Gr KENTUCKY een, Kentu~ky WESTERN KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE Deep In south central Kentucky on a hilltop visible for miles, stands Western Kentucky State College, home of the Western Kentucky Hilltopper football team. The college is located In Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city of approximately 32, 000 population which may Justlybe called one of the most beautiful small cities In Am erica. It has been appropriately named the 'Park City . College Heights is nationally recognized as one of the nation's most beautiful campuses. It embraces an area of some 70 acres on which twenty-six college build Ings are located, occupies an eminence overlooking the city of Bowling Green and commands one of the most beautiful panoramic views to be found. Founded in 1906 by Dr. H. H. Cherry, one of Kentucky's most famous educ ators, Western Kentucky State College as a co-educational college with an enrol lment of better than 2500 students has become one of Kentucky's foremost institu tions of higher education. A complete program offering courses in twenty-three different departments provides diversified educational opportlmities. The Master of Arts, the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Arts degrees are offered. Pre-professional work leading to entrance in professional and technical colleges for advanced study is also offered. Western Kentucky's faculty of 110 members has been trained in America's finest colleges and universities. Classrooms, laboratories, shops, farm areas and equipment are modern and sufficient to assure the student the highest type of instructional facilities. In addition to football, Western Kentucky has intercollegiate athletic teams in basketball, baseball, track, tennis and golf. A full schedule of Intercollegiate contests is played In each of these sports. The college is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference and of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. All Inter collegiate athletic events in which Western Kenm:ky participates are governed by the rules and regulations of these organizations. GENERAL INFORMATION NAME -- --- - - --- -- - - -- ----------- --------- - - -- WESTERN KENTUCKY STATE FOUNDED-- ----- - - ---- ------- --- - - -- - - - -- - - - -------- - ------ - - ------ - - -- 1906 LOCATION ------------------------------- -----BQWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY PRESIDENT- - ---- -- --- - ---- ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- ----- - -DR. KELLY THOMPSON ATHLETIC DIRECTOR----------- ------- --- - - --- ---------- - --- E.A. DIDDLE HEAD, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH & ATHLETICS --- ----------- ------------------------ TED HORNBACK HEAD FOOTBALL COACH --- ----- -- - - - - - -- --- ---------------------NICK DENES ASSISTANT FOOTBALL COACH------------- -- - ------------ -- TURNER ELROD ASSISTANT FOOTBALL COACH--- - -------------------------- FRANK GRIFFIN ASSISTANT FOOTBALL COACH-------- - ----- -- ----------------------JIM FEIX COLORS-- ------- - - - -------- --- - - - - - - - --- - -- - - - -- - --- - SCARLET AND WHITE NICKNAME ---- --- -- - - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - ----- - - ----HILLTOPPERS PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR-- - ------------- -------- -ROBERT G. COCHRAN STADIUM- - - --------- - --- - ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----- - - -- WESTERN CAMPUS CAPACITY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4,500 CONFERENCE--- ---- - - - ------- -- - - - - -- - - - - -- - ---- - - ----- - - ---- OHIO VALLEY N .C.A.A. LOCAL PRESS- ----- --- --- -------- - - - -- -- -- - - -.--- - - - - - - - - - ------DAILY NEWS Bert Borrone, Sports Editor COLLEGE PRESS----------------------------- -- COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD LOCAL RADIO STATION------------ ----- ----- ---- WLBJ - DAY AND NIGHT Bob Proctor, Sports Director 2 HILLTOPPER COACHES NICK DENES Coach Nick Denes opens his third season as head coach of the Western Kentucky State College football team on September 1, 1959, when the H!lltoppers open prac tice for the new campaign, HIs first year at Western, Denes closed the season with 5 wins, 310sses and one tie. Last season he ended with four wins and five losses while conducting a youth movemem on the Hilltop. Four of the losses were by such narrow margins that a break or two at crucial points could easily have turned the defeats into victories. The modest, unassuming Denes holds a win -loss record in athletics which is fab ulous. His overall record is 431 victories, 114 losses and 8 ties. In football his teams have won 148, lost 40, and tied 8. In basketball the record reads 162 wins and 48 losses. In track his teams won 108andlost 22. As Western's baseball coach last season, Denes had an impressive 13-win, 4-10ss record. His highly successful coaching career began at Corbin, Ky., High School in 1929, following graduation from the University of Illinois . The veteran Denes is the only high school coach in Kentucky to ever win state championships in three sports. He coached his 1936 Corbin basketball team to the state title. In 1951 he direc ted his Louisville Male High School football team to the state championship and Denes was named Kentucky's "Coach of the Year" for 1951. While at Male, Coach Denes' track teams won seven state crowns, five in a row. In 1939 the likable. story-telling Denes came to Western Kemucky as an assis tant coach. Coach Denes moved to Male in 1940 as an assistant coach. He handled the line ontwo state championship teams before he took over as head coach in 1949 to com pile one of the most brilliant coaching records in the history of ' athletics at the Lou isville school. A warm. friendly person, Coach Denes is a firm believer in strict discipline and hard work. His teams are always superbly conditioned. 3 HILLTOPPER COACHES (Cont. ) TURNER ELROD Elrod played football, basketball ,,!,d baseball at Western Kentucky from 1927 through 1930. He coached high school athletics in Kentucky following his gradua tion in 1931. Prior to joining the Hilltopper coaching staff at the opening of the 1949 season, Elrod was athletic director and assistant football coach at Barrett high school, Henderson, Kentucky. He served in the United States Army from 1942 through 1946. Elrod also coaches the Hilltopper track team in the spring sports program. FRANK GRIFFIN Griffin played end for the Hilltoppers before World War II. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1941 through 1946. Upon being discharged, he joined the Hill topper staff as trainer. He moved up as an assistant coach in the spring of 1948, handling the line. Griffin also coaches the Hilltopper golf team each year which is a highly-rated contender for the Ohio Valley Conference Championship. JIMMIE FEIX Feix, Little All-American quarterback at Western Kentucky in 1952, joined the Hilltopper coaching staff as a full-time assistant last year. He was a student assistant for a year while completing work forthe M. A. degree which he received in August, 1958. Feixgainednational recognition for his quarterbacking of Western Kentucky's Refrigerator Bowl champions in 1952. He ranked among the top passers in the nation during his junior and senior years with the Hilltoppers. In June, 1953, he was graduated from Western Kentucky with the B. S. degree in physical education. He entered the U. S. Air Force shortly after graduation as an ROTC-graduate lieutenant, serving as a flyer until his release in March, 1957. 4 WESTERN KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE 1959 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE W L T Sept. 15 University of Louisville 8:00 p. m . at Louisville, Ky. 11 7 0 (Kentucky State Fair) Sept. 19 Southeast Missouri State 8:00 p. m. at Cape Girardeau, Mo. 3 0 0 Sept. 26 "East Tennessee State 7:30 p. m. at Bowling Green, Ky. 5 1 0 Oct. 3 "Middle Tennessee State 2:00 p. m. at Murfreesboro, Tenn ..14 10 2 Oct. 10 Austin Peay College 8:00 p. m. at Clarksville, Tenn. 4 0 0 Oct. 17 "Tennessee Tech 2:00 p. m. at Bowling Green, Ky. 9 11 1 (Homecoming & Band Day) Oct. 24 Open Oct. 31 "Eastern Kentucky State 2:00 p.m. at Richmond, Ky. 21 10 0 Nov. 7 "Morehead State 2:00 p. m. at Bowling Green, Ky. 13 1 1 1:30 p. m. at Rensselaer, Ind. o 0 0 Nov. 21 "Murray State 2:00 p. m. at Bowling Green, Ky . 10 10 5 " Indicates Ohio Valley Conference games. 5 WESTERN KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE 1958 FOOTBALL RESULTS Western Kentucky 12 Southeast Missouri State 0 at Cape Girardeau, Mo. Western Kentucky 0 • East Tennessee State 8 at Johnson City, Tenn. Weste rn Kentucky 7 • Middle Tennessee State 10 at Bowling Green, Ky . Western Kentucky 6 Youngstown University 20 at Youngstown, Ohio Western Kentucky 3 • Tennessee Tech 7 at Cookeville, Tenn. Weste rn Kentucky 21 • Eastern Kentucky State 14 at Bowling Green, Ky. Weste rn Kentucky 14 • Morehead State 0 at Morehead, Ky. Weste