Word: neyland
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...while, the breaks came slowly. By half time the Volunteers were doing no better than a 7-7 tie. A locker-room talk from Coach Bowden Wyatt and a message from Athletic Director General Bob Neyland, scouting in the pressbox. corrected the team's mistakes. Now the Volunteers began to get the jump, and they forced Mississippi's first big mistake: an intercepted Mississippi pass led to a quick touchdown. Then, with Majors faking Ole Miss defenders off balance and hitting his receivers with passes that practically had handles, Tennessee went in front to stay, 21-7. After...
Wives on the Bench. Born in Virginia, Bobby Dodd, 48, learned his football as an All-America quarterback under Tennessee's General Bob Neyland. For all the hardscrabble competition of the big-time college game, he never lost his stubborn notion that football was meant...
...Sale defeated R. Dowling and D. Melnick (forfeit); P. Pratt and K. Hildreth defeated T. Atkinson and H. Chwang (6-1, 6-2), T. Tully and D. Bird defeated W. Tucker and C. Hanschka (6-4, 6-2); P. Keesing and G. Kinkleman defeated W. Porter and M. Neyland (6-3, 6-1); F. Keesing and M. Keesing defeated D. Johnson and J. Neely...
Tennessee, which last week rolled over Chattanooga, 42-13. General Bob Neyland, in his 20th coaching year for the Volunteers, has fielded another of his meticulously perfect single-wing attacks (plays are rehearsed 500 times), sparked by Halfback Hank Lauricella. The defense, always a Neyland specialty, is anchored this year by All-America Guard...
...voting in the Scripps-Howard newspapers annual poll, handed Charley the laurel wreath of the profession: they voted him "Coach of the Year." With III first-place votes out of 384, he led Runners-Up Lynn Waldorf of California (50 first-place votes), Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma (42), Bob Neyland of Tennessee (34), and 55 others...