Word: evashevski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dank cellar of the century-old athletic building, a boyish-faced man answers. On the other end of the line may be one of the most renowned coaches in college football-perhaps Northwestern's Ara Parseghian, or Louisiana State's Paul Dietzel, or Iowa's Forest Evashevski. They want advice...
...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...
Personal Call. Unsurprisingly, the Nelson phone rings for more than advice: many schools, including Pitt, Indiana and Baylor, have tried to draw him into major-college coaching. Michigan-born Dave Nelson learned his football with Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan powerhouses (one teammate: Forest Evashevski), but no one has been able to shake him loose from Delaware. "I like the small-college atmosphere," he says. "It's a good place to raise a family...
...Team morale is shot," said Iowa Coach Forest Evashevski after TIME and others had the temerity to suggest that settling for a 21-21 tie with Michigan might have been cricket but wasn't football. "I don't know whether we can get the kids up off the floor." But this time Evy refused to quit. He posted the offending articles on the locker-room bulletin board. His kids got the message and scored the most points Iowa had ever made against Minnesota. They beat the Gophers...
...they began to move. With impressive ease, Iowa tied the score. Then, with three long minutes left to keep going to victory, the Hawkeyes quit. They simply ran out the clock and settled for a 21-21 tie. His boys seemed to have "run out of gas," as Coach Evashevski saw it. To 90,000 booing spectators at Ann Arbor, it seemed as if Forest Evashevski and his team had broken a commandment...