""I'" ~W' ~~... ' ficial application," Yanagisawa said. " We don't even e ~ ils for Ali to meet Britain's European cham- stadium will be completed by September." 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 Chicago Bears 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 Green Bay Packers 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 Gene Hooks 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.