Word: cherberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunch Player. Just as he hit his stride, Cox decided to quit. He got caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy...
When the University of Washington fired Football Coach John Cherberg (TIME, Feb. 13), it sailed into a storm of scandal involving under-the-counter payments of money to players by booster alumni. But Washington was apparently still more interested in victories than in its reputation, so it hired young...
...Corrupt for Kids. Dissension was kept alive on his squad, said Cherberg in newspaper interviews and a televised speech last week, "by threats to players that they would be cut off from outside aid if they joined me ... A player loyal to me was offered a $50 a month deal from a downtown source to join the movement against...
...stadium. With capital sometimes as high as $75,000, Torchy was able to slip grateful athletes fat checks. Out of the fund came the price of plane tickets home, vacations for wives, the cost of a car when a player needed one. When the revolt broke, however, pro-Cherberg squad members suddenly found their mailboxes empty of checks. "Players," said Johnny, "had to look in two directions: one for favors, one for coaching...
...week's end Washington Secretary of State Earl Coe demanded that Governor Arthur B. Langlie fire Cassill and Everest, and investigate the strange silence of University President Henry Schmitz (who last year banned Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Washington campus). Cowboy Cherberg kept talking: "The filthiest thing in the world is to corrupt young Americans with dough. I may never coach again, but God willing, I'm not going to let them corrupt any more kids...