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UNTIL, the bleak afternoon in Evanston when the referee moved the ball to Minnesota's one year line and a Northwestern touchdown, it was well known that Minnesota had been playing football since 1932 without a single defeat. Coach Bernie Bierman wore Knute Rockne's mantle; to Minneapolis citizens from bellboy up, the garment even seemed a bit snug...
University of Minnesota yearbook athletic seem to shine with the brilliance of the Bierman achievement in football, beginning 1915 when Bernie obtained the Gophers the Big Ten title. In the record books of the University Montana, there is no such brilliance attached to Coach Bierman's name. Mustered out of the Marine Corps, he served two years as University of Montana's coach, years unsuccess enough to cause him to quit coaching in favor of selling bonds in Minneapolis...
Coached by 29-year-old Lowell Dawson, who learned football under Minnesota's Coach Bernie Bierman, Tulane's Green Wave drowned Colgate...
Like most of his coaching colleagues, Bierman is timid, diligent, a pessimist. He differs from them in being more pessimistic, working harder and exhibiting a shyness which sometimes produces an effect of megalomania. Last week, when Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Minneapolis, a civic group suggested that Bierman and the President be photographed together. Bierman refused on the grounds that foot ball and politics do not mix. He said he would not object if the President came to see him. Almost speechless in the presence of reporters, luncheon clubs and radio interviewers, he often sits up till 3 a. m. working...
...really first-rate Bierman product, each man concentrates solely on his job with complete confidence that the other ten will accomplish theirs to perfection. This year's team sometimes betrays its greenness when the interference looks back to see if the man with the ball is still on his way. It contains only three or four All-America prospects. Wilkinson, who played guard last year, is one. Julius Alfonse, who did not play last year, and his co-captain, Tackle Ed Widseth, are others. Minnesota's likeliest halfbacks this year are a pair who, because they played together...