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...pool, comes the whir of a movie projector. Hunched over the L-shaped desk, his size-50 jacket slung carelessly on the floor, a bespectacled bear of a man scribbles furiously on a note pad. It is some time between midnight and 4 a.m., the hours that James Thompson Prothro Jr. calls his "thinking hours." It could be chess that Tommy Prothro is thinking about: he is a tournament champion. Or bridge: he collects master points. Or business: he is heir to a Memphis real estate fortune, owns two soft-drink bottling plants in Oregon. But right...
...Learn." Victories, easy or hard, are not exactly traditional for the Bruins. For a decade, U.C.L.A. has operated in the shadow of its smaller (18,-600 students to 27,500) cross-town rival, Southern California. When Prothro quit a secure job (63 victories, 37 defeats in ten years) as head coach at Oregon State and moved to U.C.L.A. last year, he inherited a team that had won only ten of its last 30 games. "Tommy did not come to U.C.L.A. to lose," commented a Los Angeles sportswriter, "but he'll learn...
...have myself brainwashed into believing we can win,'" said U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro-and his Bruins obviously shared the delusion. Outweighed by 13 lbs. per man, they intercepted three passes, recovered two fumbles, stopped Michigan State three times on fourth down with a yard or less to go. Only 19 and a sophomore, Quarterback Gary Beban scored two touchdowns, called most of U.C.L.A.'s plays himself (one exception: a successful onside kickoff, ordered by Prothro, that led to the Bruins' second TD), and going into the last quarter U.C.L.A. led 14-0. The shocked Spartans finally came...
Deep in dejection, Oregon State's Coach Tommy Prothro showed up at a booster luncheon to explain why the finest football team in the school's history had an indifferent 5-3 record. As Prothro brooded over his trials, a sympathetic partisan asked: "What's the good word, Tommy?" For the first time in days, Tommy Prothro smiled. "Terry Baker," he said...
...while it seemed that every col lege coach in every sport wanted Baker, who finally chose Oregon State after cautioning Coach Prothro that he might not even go out for football. True to his warning, Baker passed up freshman football; he was determined to get good grades in engineering. Recalls Professor Richard L. Richardson: "On his second day of school as a freshman, Terry raised his hand and asked if the homework amounted to nothing more than it appeared to be. I said 'No,' and he shook his head in disgust. Everybody in the class gave...