Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alternating four powerful teams, any one of which seemed capable of handling Pitt, Oklahoma's Coach Bud Wilkinson saw his boys roll for 310 yds. on the ground, connect for three touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly...
...Cleveland Clinic's Irvine H. Page (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Arthur C. Corcoran. Harvard's Fredrick J. Stare, New York University's Herbert Pollack and Charles F. Wilkinson...
...over as president, promptly launched the most vigorous building campaign that shaky B.Y.U. had ever known. In 1954 top Mormon leaders gathered on campus in Provo to dedicate not one, but 22 modern buildings. Last week they were back again to dedicate twelve more. In only seven years, Ernest Wilkinson, 58, has turned B.Y.U. into one of the largest church-owned universities in the U.S., with a 1957 enrollment of more than...
...from 2,000 to 800; facultymen were so hard to find, says one alumnus, that "you could be attending class with a fellow one quarter and find that he was your teacher the next." Though the G.I. Bill started it on the road to recovery, it was not until Wilkinson came along that it really began to move. Before then, says another alumnus, "there was never any reason to go to B.Y.U.-unless you happened to live near...
...prosperous Washington, D.C. lawyer, Wilkinson proposed a plan that was exactly the same as one he had advocated while editor of the student paper. "The way to build this university," said he in 1921, "is to use the machinery of the Mormon Church." As president, he persuaded Mormon leaders to shower the university with money. He also persuaded them to tell the church's stakes, wards and missions" to send him their brightest boys and girls. In some quarters, his brisk way of doing things earned him the title of "Little Napoleon." To others he was "the Little Dynamo...