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...Carnegie Tech itself had an even more impressive record: it hadn't won a game since 1942 (it suspended football in 1944 and 1945). Wild Bill's squad of hard-studying engineers didn't get out of classes until 4:30. That made it nearly 5:30 before they were in uniform and on the practice field, and by then it was getting dark. Under Tech's simon-pure program, football players didn't even get pin money from the school. Worse still, rigid entrance exams kept out boys who were fast on their feet...
...good old days, when Carnegie Tech made no bones about buying football talent, Halfback Wild Bill Donohoe was a pigskin hero. One unforgettable Saturday in 1926, after he and his teammates whittled Notre Dame down to size (19-0), Wild Bill was toasted far into the welkinrung night. But, alas for heroes, the same Wild Bill Donohoe, on the same campus, was now the goat...
...first two years, Wild Bill didn't really expect to win anything, but this season, he confesses, he couldn't stop hoping. Wild Bill swears Tech should have won the Oberlin game. That was the weekend the whole squad got food poisoning and had to keep trotting off & on the field, compelled by a force stronger than a coach's will. Tech lost...
Whether it was Wild Bill's fault or not (he won his share of games before he came to Tech), undergrads demanded that his head roll and that athletes once again be bought, retail or wholesale. A month ago, President Robert E. Doherty told protesting students: "Some of you may have come to the wrong school...
Last week Carnegie Tech had its final chance of the season, against little Grove City, and won, 7-0. To celebrate the upset, Tech students put on a victory parade that kept classrooms half empty all day Monday. Bill Donohoe was a hero again...