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Show -- J The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, November 29, I960 Ray, Tony Prove: 17 L Board Taps Parson Coach . , That Nice Guys Also Can Win ' ' By John Mooney Tribune. Sports Editor Is an Building character occupation disdainfully allocated to losing coaches, Who cant seem to build a winning record, Whenever a coach suffers through a futile season, the wags Insist he. is "building character" on the assumption that humility, thet ability to be a good loser, the willingness to turn the other cheek and to follow the Golden Rule just naturally descend upon a loser. i No one In Jest ever claimed a winning coach "built character with his successful coaching. But as Tony Polychronis, the very excellent Utah guard, wings his way to New York this week to talk contract with the New York Giants, at least two men will know from personal experience that you can "build character" through col said, 'Coach, I dont want to lege football, without the ne- olay football. I never really wanted to play, but in high cessity of losing. school I was pushed into the WITHOUT THE "character game, and In college my classbuilding of Coach Ray Nagel, mates and the coaches insisted. Polychronis might have been But I dont like football. "I told Tony if that was the . remembered if at all as the roly-polyoungster who way he felt he certainly should crawled under a bush and not play football, Nagel adds. But when fall rolled around, cried. And I got to thinking about Tony hinted that he might like the situation and crawled in to play after all, despite his beside Tony and cried, too, insistence he didnt want to Jack Curtice cracked in a na- play when he turned his back tional publication. Whether on spring drilles. this actually happened or not "BUT I WOULDNT allow is immaterial. The fact remained Polychronis did not him to report that fall, even relish the payment of the price though we certainly could ' for football greatness. have used his weight and When Nagel became head speed in the line. Next spring coach, he had a fatherly talk Tony reported for the workto Tony, because Nagel outs. He had a couple of sophs could sense the potential In ahead of him in the battle for the smiling young man of his position, and, believe me, he earned everything he got. Greek ancestry. "I said this fall, If "At the end of my pep talk," improves as much this Nagel recalls, Tony simply fall as he did last season, he'll be one of the best in the country. He did as I expected. Tony was one of the best linemen in the country and hell make it in the pros, too, because he has the desire and the willingness to battle for success," Nagel concluded. Theres a prelude to the sented by UPI, capped a stun- character building of Polyning season in which the chronis that may have guided won Gophers eight games and Nagel in his decision to make lost only one compared to Tony choose to pay the price. their record of only one You see, Nagel went coach year ago at a time when Murray Warmath was being through the same period of indecision as a senior at severely criticized. Iowa, whose only loss in UCLA. to nine games was by For three years In high Minnesota, finished second and school and his first three years Mississippi, unbeaten though tied once, was third. Orange in college, Nagel was a T forMissouri was mation quarterback, and pretfourth and Rose Bowl bound ty hot potatoes. While he letWashington fifth. tered as a frosh as a defensive he was a passing specman, Minnesotas only loss this to Pur- ialist as a junior when he season was by due the week after the Iowa broke Bob Waterfields record for pass completions. victory. Then Coach Bert LaBru-chenIn other games, Minnesota stepped aside as Bruin Indi- coach and Henry (Red) Sanbeat Nebraska, ; ders, a single wing man, took ana, 42 0; Northwestern, ; Illinois, 2110; Michigan, charge. Kansas State, 48 7; and WisSANDERS inherited Nagel, . consin, much as Nagel, 10 years later, The final ratings (first place votes inherited another passing and won lost records m parentheses! Points specialist, Lee Grosscup, from Team 1 326 (8 1) Minnesota (21) a retiring coach. 8 It 300 i5t 2 Iowa 284 3 Mississippi 1) (2) I was going to spite San194 9 li 4 Missouri 181 i9 1) 5 Washington ders and refuse to report for 160 9 1) 6 Navy 7 Arkansas H7 spring (8 21 practice Nagel re89 called. (7 2) 8 Ohio State was in 1949, after That 2 44 1) (7 Kansas (Tie) 44 I had set passing records the 10 Alabama (8 I 1) Second 1011 Duke, 35 12 Baylor. previous fall. Sanders Indicat13 29 Michigan State, 26 14 Au- burn, 16 15 Purdue, 14, 16 Florida, ed if that was my attitude, 10, 17 Texas 7 18 Tie among Yale New Mexico State, and Tennessee, 6 perhaps he would be able to each get along without my talents. Othera Penn State. Oregon, and "About a week later, I realMichigan, 51 each, Rice, 3, Syracuse, 2, UCLA, ized how much I missed football and I asked Sanders if I could change my mind and report. Ill never forget Reds answer, Nagel, you may come out for football, but Im telling you now, youll be the last man on the Red shirts (the ... .. NEW YORK, Nov. 28 ttJPI) Minnesotas golden Gophers, in an amazing comeback from a disastrous year, Monday were named the 1960 national major college football champions by the United Press International Board of Coaches. 2-- 7 GOPHERS, of the Big Ten and already picked for the Rose Bowl, received the first plage votes of 21 of the 35 famous coaches who comprise the board. , ' Special This Week I 27-1- 0 Bowl-boun- Thus ended a season that began at Minnesota with the official brochure venturing only mild optimism" for the Gophers cause. d 95 FAST SERVICE LOW RATES STREATOR CHEVROLET WEST 13TH SOUTH 0 a- 4 ,'' "iiartiwuinriKialltini irmf-- v n- Tony Polychronis, left, talks over football with Ray Nagel, whose character I OUARANTEI S Includes Ports and Labor V Most Others 16,95 FREI Far I iiS rC2U FARM n-- Law MINE I J tc i The University of Missouri Tigers are the latest additions to the University of Utah football schedule. 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