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Show Backseat DmuiiiG Engineer Builds Crldmen e Agle Talks Too Long e e e Grange No "Barnum" e e e By PBANK K. BAKER Telegraas Sports Miter Tennessee Coach Is Army Engineer, Too Building river dams and developing f;reat football teams herdly seems rested, re-sted, but tall, erect Major Robert K. Neyland doea both with remarkable success at Knoxvllle, Tenn. He la best known aa coach of the University of Tennessee football teem a teem that has been defeated but twice in seven years, but as an army engineer is capable enough to keep a high rating In the estimation of U. S. army of'icera. His record as an army engineer has been forced to the background by his football successes, but with Presidentelect President-elect Roosevelt now giving attention to the possible operation of Muscle Shoals and development of water power In the Tennesaee river basin, Neyland's position as United States district engineer, with headquarters at Chattanooga, has assumed new importance. im-portance. Me la responsible far the aulale-ssaaoe aulale-ssaaoe aad eperaliea of the hsge hrdreeleetrie plant at Masele g heals. Ha kae easurge af 41 asllsa f Use Tennessee river, en whieb WUaea Sssa la leeated, sad all af the rivers trlbalerlea extending Into Virginia, North CarellBa, Keateeky sad Georgia. Threats: a special arraageaaeat be waa ear akled to oa Minus aa feetkall eeaeb of Ike Velaateera when be waa appelated te hie eagtaeertag aa Mly. f Saw Service In France "During War The 41-yeer-old army engineer and football coach waa born In Greenville, Green-ville, Texas, the son of a lawyer. He ' studied engineering at Texas A. and M. one yeer and then, at the age of 20, received an appointment to Weat Point There he took general course In engineering, was graduated In ISIS and sent to the Mexlcen border with the First engineers. Engaging In levee work on the Rio Grande, emergency bridge construction and road work, Neylend geined his first practical engineering en-gineering experience. He was called to Washington la the spring of 1917 to begin training for the World war and later Joined the First corps engineers achool and First army engineers achool in France. Before Be-fore the war ended, however, be waa called beck to the United States and took charge of training the Eighth mounted engineers and division engineers engi-neers of the Fifteenth cavalry division divi-sion at Fort Bliss, Texas. Following an extra course In mechanical me-chanical and electrical engineering at Massachusetts Tech, he returned to West Point In 121 as assistant adjutant ad-jutant in the administrative deportment deport-ment and assistant coach in football, boxing and baseball. He was transferred trans-ferred to Tennessee aa ft O, T. C. commandant com-mandant In 128 and elected head football foot-ball coach In im Cverett Caaapbell ef lbs Via Agglea had aa Ulaetraled Issssa -ta lest weeks basketball aeries with the Bedsktaa a Utah aalver. elty la the old a leas skoal talk-lag talk-lag eat ef lara. la a aslxap for the ball, Oraal Beaaleei of the Utea waa called for fealtag the Aggie . septals, whereases Casapbell as. eeeted Beaaiee) wish the klddlag reavark af "I gaees that'll leeeh ' yea te keep year Banes off. "Tea," answered the Uta gaard, "perhaps we'd both better keep oar hands to eereelvea." Caaaphell terms ass alaeatlea toward the aeep thea for has tree threw, bat the referee blew Ma whistle. Caaapbell had beea ataadsag oa the teal Ilea daring has repartee with Beanie sad beea "eesated sot" fee Being mere thaa the at-letted at-letted tea seseaae la wkiek to Basks free sees. Creat "Red" Grange Says He's No Promoter Harold "Red" Grange, who has decided de-cided Is retire from football after his spectacular rise to alardotn in collegiate colle-giate circles end a long career In professions! pro-fessions! football, declares be is bo promoter. In fact It was not his decision to leave Illinois for a pro contract before be-fore his schoiasuc term was completed thet Grange regards as his greatest mistake. Rather, he says, it was his attempt to make promoter of himself him-self after he bad accumulated tome money. "My one big mistake," he recently confided, "waa when I went In with Char ey Pyle In trying to promote. Charley and I had been making big money, and when the money Is coming com-ing in, t couple of pals Ilka we were are liable to throw caution overboard and do things that are not sound. "I had at one time and this was the peek cash on hand and property amounting to 1200.000. all In my own name. I was apparently on Easy street f. s l"ou,d ! OBW out "Shi H. ,5,,.00., ,ort " ood 0l " than half of my nest egg on promo-tion promo-tion stunts " Only about a fourth of the original amount was left In reel estate when Grange wound up his p aying career in a pro gams at Los Angeles recently. "The shrinksge," he explained, "Is d,prln Property val- ues and to my senseless attempts to become another Barnum." " eei a.7r.(r.t haviag Irri centre ter his "ehaaee at a feealeaaj offer. Create deee la. asenl his docislea set to to baek aad get the detue eat ef 14. ball aeaaea. Be wants to affiliate hlmaelf as s eeach at seats aek-verallv aek-verallv aad flada that a degree ki one ef the reaalsltee at aaeet la-VV""r. la-VV""r. Th - wb he as advising ad-vising all sthletea whs heps to ' to grsdaata. |