Word: bains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this failed to disturb Pitt's standpat trustees (including the late Andrew W. Mellon, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir*, Food-man Howard Heinz, Westinghouse Chair man Andrew Wells Robertson). But last spring the trustees were disturbed indeed when Football Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland quit. Apparent reason for his resignation was a decision by Chancellor Bowman to purify Pitt athletics, but insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John...
Those leaving at the end of the year include the following instructors: Joe S. Bain to the University of Colorado; Glenn H. Craig to the University of Montana; J. Kenneth Galbraith, who holds a faculty appointment, to Princeton; John P. Miller '32 to Princeton for a year; Spencer Pollard '32, to the Sloan Foundation of New York University, where he will direct a movie educational campaign in economics; Kenyon F. Poole '29, to Brown; George P. Reynolds '20, to Johns Hopkins; and Harold F. Williamson to Yale...
Bowser succeeds John Bain (Jock) Sutherland, who resigned March 4 because of "intolerable" conflict between the faculty committee on athletics and the athletic department...
After the Rose Bowl game of 1937, University of Pittsburgh's victorious Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland asked Athletic Director W. Don Harrison for a handful of spending money so that the team, having just netted Pitt $95,000 by beating Washington, could celebrate in Hollywood. Director Harrison primly refused. Jock shelled out the money himself, fought the matter out in Pittsburgh until Harrison resigned that March. It was then that Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman turned from firing "liberal" teachers to purifying Pitt's frankly subsidized football team...
...colleges which still cling to old-fashioned ground plays is the University of Pittsburgh, for the past 15 years coached by tall, angular Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...