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...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...
...unexpected situation arose when Miss Mildred Madigan of West Roxbury, a veteran baton twirler, attempted a coup d'etat between the halves. The 19 year old blond, trying to win a sorority bet by leading the Band, was prevented from getting on the field by Robert M. Peebles '40, manager...
...when Pope Pius IX appealed to the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a lay order, to take it over. The college burned down in 1894, rose from its ashes, was razed again by fire in 1918, made still another fresh start. In 1921, when it hired Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan to coach its football teams, St. Mary's began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong, into a $1,500,000 plant in the Moraga Valley. But last summer, despite Slip Madigan and its football team (whose expenses ate up all the gate receipts...
Chief football expense is Slip Madigan, who is reputed to receive a $7,000 salary and 10% of the gate receipts, which would have amounted to $17,467 on last season's $174,671.71. In February, when foreclosure proceedings were already well under way, it was revealed that Slip Madigan had received directly the check for $38,324.15 which New York's Fordham University gave St. Mary's after their Rams beat the Gaels 7-to-6 in Manhattan last autumn. Since Slip Madigan had been owed $21,690 from the 1934 and 1935 seasons, the Fordham...
Boycotting last week's auction were the Roman Catholic Brothers of the Christian Schools who have owned and run St. Mary's since 1868. Boycotting it also was St. Mary's chief ornament, wiry Football Coach Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan whose Galloping Gaels built their college's fortunes. When Slip Madigan went to St. Mary's from Notre Dame in 1921, the college was as puny as its football team, which had just been overwhelmed by the University of California 127-to-0. From 1924 to last year St. Mary...