Word: cherberg
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Seattle, Wash, tonight, John Cherberg, the head coach of the University of Washington's football team, will probably once again ask himself, "what does a coach have to do to be a success?" And in a different room on the same campus, the athletic director of the school, Harvey Cassill, will have to ask himself, "Should Johnny get booted, or shouldn...
When this season opened, Cherberg wasn't expected to have much of a team. Playing in the tough Pacific Coast Conference, Cherberg had compiled a poor 2-8 season the year before. But to everyone's surprise, the Huskies defeated Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon, and even Southern California in the first four weeks of the season. Cherberg was a hero, for against Southern Cal the year before the Huskies had lost, 41 to 0. The backfield star for Washington was Sandy Lederman, a quarterback from Santa Monica, and his teacher was his old coach from high school, backfield coach Jim Sutherland...
...word had leaked out that Cherberg and Sutherland did not always agree on the way to handle quarterback Lederman, and when the season ended, Sutherland publicly attacked Cherberg. To prevent any more embarrassment, Cassill fired Sutherland...
...next day, two delegations of students, representing 33 juniors and seniors on the team, most Cassill and asked for Cherberg's removal. They accused him of "tyrannical methods," adding that "squad action to get rid of him has been a long time in the brewing...
...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