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Darrell Royal, head coach at the University of Texas, wears tailored three-button suits and adopts a low-keyed, tutorial tone with his players. "When he explains something," says Quarterback James Street, "it's like getting a lecture from a professor." Royal also likes to bring his charges down to earth with such occasional homespun homilies as: "There ain't a hoss alive that can't be rode, and there ain't a man alive who can't be throw...
...combination of cattle-country philosopher and football slicker has helped make Royal one of the most successful college football coaches in history. During his 13-year tenure at Texas, the Longhorns have compiled a won-lost-tied record of 103-28-4. They have won five Southwest Conference titles and one national championship, and have appeared in nine post-season bowl games. Royal was named Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America in 1961 and 1963; he is the only coach ever to win that honor twice. He may be on his way to a third...
World War II saved Royal from the fruit-picking odyssey. He joined the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 and played for the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. After the war, Oklahoma Coach Jim Tatum had little trouble persuading the slight (5 ft. 11 in., 158 lbs.) quarterback to come home and try his hand at college ball. In 1947, Royal's sophomore year, Tatum was replaced by a youngster named Bud Wilkinson. Under Wilkinson's guidance Royal was named All-America quarterback in 1949. But the pro scouts considered him small, and he drifted into coaching...
...selection did not come as much of a-surprise to most of those who saw Saturday's game. The Tiger attack operated almost to perfection while rolling over a usually stubborn defense. Harvard coach John Yoviesin said. "I've never seen a team execute offensively as Princeton did in the first half in my 12 years here...
...Elis had been in seventh place in the league without a victory over an Ivy opponent. while Penn had lost only to Harvard and was ranked tenth nationally. Yale coach Hubert Vogelsinger used a man-to-man defense and a breakaway offense in an effort to halt the Quakers and his team played its best game of the season to down Penn...