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Died. Eddie Erdelatz, 53, Naval Academy football coach from 1950 to 1959, who took over the Middies when they were about to abandon ship (four wins in five years), produced a stunning 14-2 upset over undefeated Army, went on to post an impressive nine-year record of 50 wins, 26 losses, 8 ties before quitting after protesting the academy's strict limits on practice time, scholarships and ticket allotments; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif...
...Scarcely a week after Eddie Erdelatz resigned as head football coach, apparently in pique at Academy refusal to give athletes special privileges, Navy picked his successor: Wayne Hardin, 32, for four years backfield coach under Erdelatz. Captain Slade Cutter, Navy's athletic director, pointedly described Hardin as "a man who knows the problems at the Naval Academy and sympathizes with them...
...Sudden as a quick kick, smiling Eddie Erdelatz quit as Navy's football coach after futilely protesting the number of restrictions on his team (e.g., the cancellation of special pre-term classes). He left behind a sparkling nine-year record of 50 wins v. 26 defeats, and a scramble for one of the game's best jobs...
...Navy's Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz played fast and loose with his new five-year contract just long enough to scout the football factory out at Texas A. & M. Like half a dozen others before him, including Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty and former Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy. Eddie looked over the high-priced proposition and decided to leave. While Eddie went home to make his peace with the Naval Academy, Texas Governor Price Daniel took note of the Aggies' seven incomplete passes at seven successive coaches, and, just like an angry alumnus, demanded a full...
...Erdelatz, during a brief stop in Dallas said he had not been offered the A&M job at that time...