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...otherwise peaceful afternoon of August 10, 1952, a very large gap suddently appeared in the vicinity of New Haven, Connecticut. This gap was caused by the sudden departure of 300-pound Herman Hickman, former Yale football coach, currently head smoker on the United Cigar Co. Television team...
Since then, the question of whether Hickman jumped or was pushed, coaxed, shoved, or mauled, aided by a conspicuous silence from Yale's usually loquacious Director of Athletics and Hickman, has virtually replaced the weather as New England's favorite topic of conversation...
...fabulously versatile Hickman was a television performer who really enjoyed performing on a quiz show last year, but who nevertheless was a football coach all the way through. A man does not have his championship background--all-American guard at Tennessee, and line coach of Army's great war-time teams--without becoming at least partially addicted to the game...
...Hickman was a good football coach, and there are a lot of coaches who would gladly settle for that much-maligned 16-18-2 four-year record. His competence meant little, however, to the Old Blue fanatics, who watched a Yale defeat on Saturday and then turned on their television sets on Sunday to see Herman, en masse, daring to smile and joke. This could not only be considered sacrilegious, it was sacrilegious...
Yale alumni, like most successful men, are not known to keep their grievances to themselves. And as the complaints came, ticket sales faltered. Doubtless many of the alumni felt that Hickman, reveling in the security of a 10-year contract he was awarded in 1950, was giving Eli second place among his loves. This feeling is a symptom of frustration, a disease peculiar to Monday Morning Quarterbacks...