Word: techs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, on doctor's orders, the grand old man of Southern football quits as coach of Georgia Tech. Football coaches everywhere accepted Bill Alexander as a blackboard wizard. Season after season, he thought up new ways to baffle old opponents, put new twists on old tricks. No man to keep his opinions to himself, he argued doggedly against the huddle (because it slowed the game), once brushed off a proposal for fancy new uniforms with a terse: "You look mighty silly when you lose in a trick getup...
Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...
Still seeking victory number one, the Varsity five will face M.I.T. tonight at Tech's Walker Gymnasium, in a contest which will get under way at 8:15 o'clock. Whether the Crimson can shake the inferiority complex which they seem to be developing may be decided in this game...
Bowing to M.I.T., 5 to 0, the Crimson squash team was defeated in its first meet of the season here Wednesday. Plimpton, number one man for Harvard, lost to Sonnabend of Tech. The next two contests in order saw Pierce and Hewson of the visitors emerge victors over Knowles and Conlon. In the final pair of matches, Scherer defeated Frothingham and Rend beat Femberg. In a later meeting, the Harvard Whites triumphed over the Harvard Reds...
...other bowl games: Duke and Alabama in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl; Texas Christian and the Oklahoma Aggies in Dallas' Cotton Bowl; Georgia Tech and Tulsa in Miami's Orange Bowl...