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Even at the University of Washington, where coaches get fired faster than French Premiers, the dismissal of Football Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg was an unpleasant surprise. Others, sent packing after fairly successful seasons, and rudely needled by students and "downtown" alumni, had kept their peace. The difference this time: Johnny Cherberg talked back. Loudly and clearly last week, he accused university authorities of condoning a football scandal...
...Strict for Girls. The reason Cherberg was disliked by a lot of people at Washington was made clear by some of his players, who had signed a petition asking for his release. The coach, they said, was too strict: he would not let them ride home from games with their girls; he yelled at them; he would not let them whistle in the dressing room or chew grass; he made them sit erect on the bench. Citing a list of such complaints, four promising freshmen quit the University (enrollment 30,000) to solicit offers elsewhere. After an investigation by University...
...cards were stacked against him, said Cherberg, from the first game of the 1955 season. While beating Idaho, 14-7, Cherberg's Huskies set a conference record of eleven fumbles. Only after watching movies of the game did Cherberg discover that his backfield coach, Jim Sutherland, had changed the center's snapping signal, while keeping the information secret from the rest of the team...
...wanted to fire Sutherland immediately," said Cherberg. "[Athletic Director] Harvey Cassill told me to wait." While he waited, Sutherland went out of his way to sympathize with rebellious players, "said things would be different if he were head coach." Fired at last, Sutherland promptly landed a job as head coach at Washington State College, the Huskies' archrival...
...yesterday, Cassill had not decided what to do shout Cherberg, and the unhappy coach would not comment. He had done his best--defeating a team which later beat Notre Dame, and routing the Cougars of Washington State, the Huskies arch-rivals. It will be another bad sleep for Coach Cherbourg tonight but that's football, West Coast style