Word: neyland
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With unlimited substitutions, says Tennessee's Coach Bob Neyland, the game has become a "rat race." It is now possible for football specialists to leave college without ever having made a tackle, recovered an enemy fumble, or intercepted a pass. How do you pick All-Americas from such half-players? The best argument for free substitutions was that it gave more kids a chance to get into the game, and earn their letter...
...other gridirons last week: ¶ At Memphis, once-proud Tennessee absorbed the worst beating (43-13) since Major Bob Neyland began coaching there 22 years ago. The man responsible for it: Mississippi's wonder-boy passer, Charley Conerly, 21, who scored two touchdowns, threw passes for the other four...
Harlow's guests at the clinic, which was devoted to a study of football movies and a general discussion of post-war gridiron trends, included Bob Neyland, head coach of the Tennessee Vols; Jack Harding, who directed the Miami University eleven, Orange Bowl champions last fall; and two former Harlow players--now coaches--who learned their football when Dick tutored the Western Maryland club. They were Al Sadusky, now line coach under Skip Stahley at George Washington University, and George Ekaitis, who coaches the Washington College, Md., squad...
...command of the Army Engineers' big Southwestern Division, Colonel Robert Reese Neyland Jr., coach of the Eastern Army football team, formerly coach at the University of Tennessee...
Duke's Wallace Wade, Tennessee's Bob Neyland, Nebraska's Biff Jones-now in the Army...