Word: madigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saints wore star-spangled, red-white-&-blue uniforms (which made Showman Slip Madigan's St. Mary's-of-California gang look like dun-quiet Quakers), went in for fancy formations like the Suzy-Q shift. Coach Simms got front-page publicity by telling big-name colleges that they were hypocrites, that his team was frankly professional (though he gave them nothing but "room, education, travel and all the food they...
...manage its new plant, the Golden Gate Turf Club has hired silver-tongued Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan, longtime football coach at St. Mary's College. Slip Madigan knows no more about horse racing than the average $2 better. But neither did Dr. Charles H. Strub, the ex-dentist whose managerial genius made Santa Anita the most fabulous race track in the U. S. If Madigan can do as good a job for Golden Gate Park as he did for little St. Mary's, he will be well worth his $15,000-a-year salary...
Like a Fuller Brush salesman, Mr. Madigan has been canvassing the little towns behind the Berkeley hills, touting his track to Lions clubs and other horse-hungry groups. Among the novelties he touted: a towering, three-tiered grandstand (only one in the U. S.), with a clear view of the finish line from every one of its 13,000 seats; a saddling paddock in front instead of behind the grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island...
Discovered digging with oldtime frenzy into his new job (as general manager of Oakland's swagger new Golden Gate Turf Club, readying its track for next month's opening) was trigger-tongued Edward ("Slip") Madigan. During his rip-roaring tenure as St. Mary's football coach (1921-39) he made himself as controversial a Bay Area figure as Harry Bridges, his Galloping Gaels famed as the nation's toughest, gaudiest, barnstormingest small-college team...
...Also upset were Fordham (by St. Mary's, playing its first season without Slip Madigan as coach); University of Texas (by Rice); Holy Cross (by Brown). Still undefeated and leaders in the running for the mythical championship at the season's halfway mark were Michigan, Northwestern, Minnesota, Cornell, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College...