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...John McKay, head football coach of the University of Southern California, the trip north to play his alma mater, the University of Oregon, might have been a sentimental journey. One look at the playing conditions was enough to dampen any thought of old school ties. A driving rain had turned the artificial turf into one big slippery sponge. The game, which was supposed to have been a romp for the Trojans, turned into a tossup. After 30 minutes of fumbles and false starts, neither team had scored, and U.S.C. sloshed into the locker room at half time for the Trojan...
...McKay's soft sell did not exactly send the Trojans storming back onto the field. But Sophomore Anthony Davis, for one, got the message. Midway in the third quarter, the tiny (5 ft. 9 in.) tailback splashed around left end and went 48 yds. for a touchdown. Minutes later, following the solid blocking of Center Dave Brown and Guard Allan Graf, Davis splattered for 55 yds. and another score. The Trojan defense, anchored by Linebacker Richard Wood and Cornerback Charles Hinton, who intercepted two Oregon passes, stiffened as requested and U.S.C. went...
Tactician is the word for McKay. The Trojans had barely dried out last week when he began preparing for U.S.C.'s next opponent, Washington State. Armed with a battery of movie projectors, McKay and his eight assistants spent an entire day studying State game films, making elaborate diagrams of every player's move on every play. The data was then fed into a computer, which produced a printout of the team's reactions-and their weaknesses-in any given situation. McKay then spent the better part of his 80-hour work week devising the precise, detailed game...
Explosive I. At Oregon, McKay was a flashy halfback who helped lead his team into the 1949 Cotton Bowl. After graduation he decided that he would not play as a pro and took a $2,800-a-year job as assistant coach at his alma mater. In 1959 he joined the U.S.C. staff. One year later he was named head coach. After two losing seasons, he silenced the protests of U.S.C.'s rabid alumni by sweeping both the 1962 national championship and Coach-of-the-Year honors. The first coach to popularize the explosive I formation, McKay...
...Prosecutor) Stewart continually questioned the witnesses in a way that would have brought most defense attorneys leaping out of their seats, but brought only an occasional objection from William Paul McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Messing "advisor...