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...caravan of campers and mobile kennels-bearing such names as "Ozzie's Huskies" and "Polar Bear Kennels"-trekked into Ely (pop. 5,000) for the biggest weekend of the year. The 7,500 participants and spectators jammed the town's five motels and four restaurants. At Zup's Market the run on dog food was so fierce that supplies quickly gave out. Mayor Jack Grahek, himself a Husky fancier, opened up his own stockpile to ensure that none of the 2,500 canine guests would go hungry...
Died. Robert Carl Zuppke, 78, alltime great football coach (University of Illinois, 1913-41); of cancer; in Champaign, Ill. Sharp-witted "Zup," German immigrant, played football (but won no letter) at the University of Wisconsin, at Illinois created teams that for 15 years were challengers for the Big Ten championship (overall record: 131 victories, 81 defeats, 12 ties, 7 conference titles...
Married. Robert Carl ("Zup") Zuppke, 77, German-born pig farmer, landscape painter and Katzenjammer-brogued longtime (1913-41) football coach of the University of Illinois, mentor of Red Grange, winner of five Big Ten championships, two ties; and Leona P. Ray, his housekeeper for 23 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Champaign...
Last week, while Old Zup made plans to retire to his farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...
Once Zuppke and Rockne were invited to the same city to make speeches at the same banquet. "I got off the train," Zup's story goes. "Nobody meets me. I go to a hotel. There is no room reserved for me. I get vun. I go upstairs. I hear a big noise. I look out the vindow. It's a parade. There is a big band, the mayor of the city, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Kivanis. Und it's Rockne they bring along. So ve go to the dinner. Ve speak. Vot do I give...