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...GARY W. VAUGHT Altus A.F.B. Altus, Okla...
...bound; at Oxford, Miss. Trailing 6-3 at half time (on a 48-yd. field goal by State's Justin Canale), Ole Miss rallied for 14 points in the second half, still lost to its cross-state rival for the first time in 18 years-ever since Johnny Vaught, the nation's winningest major college coach, took over as boss of the Rebels...
...Vaught flatly refuses to give a scholarship to a married man ("They're too much trouble, and they're bad for discipline"). He has equally firm notions about regulating the lives of his players. None may have a car during the season. The entire football team is housed in Miller Hall, a segregation made easier by the fact that the lobby is plush enough for a Las Vegas motel...
Block & Tackle. Around the gracious, red brick campus, the football area is known tersely as "Vaught's Valley." Into the valley each afternoon strides Coach Vaught, his square shoulders bulging a red sweatshirt out of shape, to teach a brand of football that is as tough as he looks-and as tough as he himself once played. Back at Texas Christian they still remember one tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection...
Under Mississippi law, the state-supported university cannot give Coach Vaught a contract for longer than four years. But Ole Miss does its best to show its deep appreciation to Vaught by giving him a new four-year contract every year, honoring him like the state institution he is. When Vaught makes his annual speech before the alumni in Jackson, says one official, "you'd think the President was coming." Colleges from other states have invited Coach Johnny Reb to become an adopted son, but to no avail. "Home is where the heart is, and that's Oxford...