Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Austin at Georgetown...
Harvard will today become the second Ivy League football team to enjoy the services of an "extra" head coach when Henry R. "Bob" Margarita, erstwhile gridiron boss at Georgetown, returns to Cambridge. Yale's Herman Hickman set the pattern a month ago when he appointed Forrest "Peahead" Walker, of Wake Forest, to the Eli staff...
...Margarita, until recently head coach of football at Georgetown, has been appointed an assistant coach at Harvard by Director of Athletics William J. Bingham...
...when he was backfield coach under Dick Harlow. Between his college playing days and coaching at Harvard he spent a year in the service and starred for two seasons with the Chicago Bears. After leaving Cambridge, Margarita became an assistant coach at Yale in 1948, then moved on to Georgetown where he was head coach until the Hoyas dropped football last month...
...Some colleges, unable to meet the postwar pace of big-time football, had already given up the game entirely. Last week, after 60 years of football, Georgetown (2-7 last year) also threw in the towel because of "the uncertainty of the times." In all, 16 colleges, e.g., St. Mary's and Duquesne, have dropped the sport since the fighting in Korea began...