Show I Hogties Horse HOls of Troy ft Jr 7 it i j iM J 4 lItt 11 4 V i 1 f I 2 A j Tiny Thornhill brought Troy crashing down in footballs football's biggest surprise of 1933 Invalid Boy Rises to New Fame In National Football Picture Tiny Thornhill Spends 17 Months 1 in iii Wheel Chair When a Youth Becomes School Grid H Hero ro EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE This is the first of a series of three articles on the career of ot Caude E. E Tiny Thornhill coach of ot the Stanford university university university sity football team that meets Columbia in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena New Years Year's day By BILL BRAUCHER NEA Service Sports Writer When the amazing score Stanford 13 University of South Southern m paU or nIa 7 was flashed lashed a across oss the country recently the football world rubbed Its eyes and asked Can such things be rhe score meant 01 a football dynasty that had prevailed so long it came to be regarded as almost al almost al most perfect And it meant that Claude E. E Tiny Thornhill whose I light had been hidden under the Pop Warner bushel for 12 years had flared into brilliance as lS a time big coach And it n meant the Rose Bowl New Years Year's day for Stanford the first time Ume since 1928 Who was Thornhill Where did he come from What kind of magic did die he teach those Stanford boys that tha they suddenly should become so great How was he able to build with material Pop Warner had de do of a gridiron machine that really clicked Not So Tin Tiny To give a n few answers Tiny is called by that name because hes he's big 6 6 feet an inch and a half hal tall with pounds of hard and active body He grins frequently but can command com corn mand quickly and persuasively He has a a 8 fine sense of humor and very definite ideas about teaching footbalL foot foot- ball At 40 he can look back upon a career created on gridirons throughout through through- lout out the country as a player and coach Tiny is Js a 3 boy from the countr country coun coun- tr try Until he was 6 C he lived on a farm near Richmond Va Then his Scottish father and Irish mother moved to West Virginia where Tiny became seriously ill with scarlet fever so ill III that doctors declared him to be paralyzed in both legs and said he would not walk again for severa several years e rs Tiny had been in a wheel whee wheelchair wheelchair chair for 17 months when a Dr Shannon Shan Shan- non described as a horse and cow v doctor urged exercise as a cure Runs Uphill Young Thornhill began to work on the horizontal bars The doctor prescribed proscribed pre pro scribed toed copper-toed boots to strengthen strength strength- en and stretch his leg muscles As soon as Tiny contrived to walk again ogain Dr Shannon ordered him bim to run always always always al al ways uphill The boy began to gain strength His parents saw that he had every chance to exercise in games of baseball football football foot foot- ball ice hockey lacrosse tennis Young Thornhill learned every outdoor outdoor out door game The family moved to Beaver Pa where the elder Thornhill became general manager fI of a pottery factor fac fac- tor tory Tiny now hard and strong became became be be- came high school fullback and yard and yard track specialist During one summer he made cup bandies nan ban ban- dies in the factory a job at which he earned a day Another he ho spent in a coal mine as a n mule skin skin- ner Another vacation he put in with witha a I. I surveying gang and decided he would become a mining engineer One day he returned from the football foot fool ball field with a knee cracked up tip and anda a dislocated shoulder His Ills parents demanded de de- de that he quit the game but bu Tiny assured them he would be more careful in the future As a matter of fact he became more skillful learning learning learn learn- ing to avoid injury Goes to Pitt rItt Hube Wagner captain of M f the University University Uni Uni- of Pittsburgh team 20 years ago ngo saw Thornhill perform in an allstar allstar all all- star game came and convinced him that tha Pittsburgh was as the place to go to study mining engineering Tiny won wona a senators senator's scholarship and got a job operating an Oln elevator in an office building But a again aIn his parents rebelled a at football When Thornhill went to Pitt there was wag ringing in his ears cars an ulti against the game Ice hockey hokey baseball or other sports sport yes yes but bu you are arc arc not going to ruin your lit life playing that dangerous camel Jamel |