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When Coach Bierman first viewed the batch of candidates for a team to meet twelve of the toughest outfits in the Midwest, he moaned: "They have less coordination than a third team at Minnesota." But gloomy Bernie soon discovered that his trainees, though variously tutored, had high possibilities. Besides Michigan's Forest Evashevski, Ohio State's Dick Fisher, Iowa's "Bus" Mertes and Northwestern's George Benson, he was blessed with a triple threat named Bill Schatzer, who had hid his brilliance for four years under a bushel named North Central College in Illinois...
...four Pre-Flight Training squads. Last week Iowa's Seahawks, most touted of the Navy fledglings, blasted Minnesota's dream of a third undefeated season. And the man who snipped its winning streak was the man who spun it: silver-thatched, 48-year-old Bernie Bierman, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines...
...years at Minnesota, Coach Bierman had built up a football reputation second only to that of Immortal Knute Rockne. His terrifying machines, fashioned of hefty Minnesota homebreds, five times power-pushed their way to the mythical U.S. football championship. For this year's campaign he had mobilized another battalion of heavy tanks. But Pearl Harbor pulled Bernie Bierman back to the Marines, with whom he had served during World War I. He was assigned to the Navy's Pre-Flight Training center at the University of Iowa, to teach football to future aviators...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg, is a firm and vigorous 80 (see cut) and not likely to quit as long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...
With this basic training, the Navy's seahawks should be the answer to a football coach's dream. But the Navy's Tex Oliver (St. Mary's), Bernie Bierman (Iowa), Ray Wolf (Georgia) and Jim Crowley (North Carolina) were not crowing last week. Reason: most of the 3,500 cadets now in training will have graduated by the eve of the football season. Cadets will then be arriving and leaving every two weeks. Barring this slight difficulty with personnel, by mid-October the Navy's preflight football teams should be rolling like Army...