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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...
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...