Show Wyatt WyaH Gains National Grid Honor Bj By y Stan sky NEW V YORK Sept 27 UP UP- UP He had just burst into footballs football's big time in m 1949 19 when suddenly he hemet hemet I Imet met his come But he didn't s1 hk a away aay He plotted r revenge ven e against his tormentor tormentor tormentor tor tor- mentor and he opened his 1950 season by getting etting that revenge e. That's the story of Bowden I t I I I Bouden n trains gains national recognition for big hiI ictor victory Wyatt the football hope of Wyoming Wyo yo yoI I ming university and the United I Press coach of the week Wyatt was lured from his native south four our seasons ago to become coach at a school which had never won a conference championship The outlook was bleak Wintry blasts made practice miserable half the season in the snow country country country coun coun- try of the The kids were more interested in playing plaYIng- basketball basketball basket basket- ball baH in m the warm gymnasium than being slammed to the frozen ground of the football field Tired of oC I But the folks wanted football George Humphrey was president I of Wyoming un university and before before before be be- beI I fore that he had served at Mississippi Mis oris- State where he learned to love the sport The schools school's alumni were vere tired of being trouncing bait for every team in the area so Humphrey went vent out and got Wyatt Wyatt knew his stuff He played end on Tennessee's teams of 1936 37 He had served as end coach at Mississippi State He collected a staff of his teammates team team- mates mates Leonard Leonard Coffman John Bailey and George Gcorge Cafego remember remember ber him him and and and set to work Within three seasons Wyoming was bursting through the top Last year the Ragtime Cowboy Joes ripped through eight games without defeat This was it Suddenly they met Baylor which boasted Adrian Burk and one of the strongest elevens in the na na- na- na tion Too 00 Big BIt a Score Baylor won von We Ve weren't PO so o disappointed about losing Wyatt I says today We e knew they were ere I too good But we were disappointed disappointed disappointed pointed about the size of oC that 32 7 score We Vc were determined to do better beller this year Wyoming did better all right It upset Baylor 7 0 Saturday Saturday- I and now heads on a conference campaign which figures to end in another championship and perhaps per per- haps even that undefeated and untied untied untied un un- un- un tied record which eluded the Cowpokes Cow- Cow Cowpokes Cowpokes pokes last year We Ve ma made no special plays for Baylor Wyatt explained But ButI we ve did learn a lot when they beat beatus I us liS at ut Waco Vaco Tex last year I believe that helped us beat them this year I Started Working I The players remembered last year and they were set for this game hame We Ve started working working- for Baylor the first day of practice That last statement there statement there you get het an idea of how Wyatt operates oper oper- ates He Hc is a big handsome man and his southern accent has almost I I away avay into the flat tones of lof the westerner His prize virtue vir virtue virtue vir- vir tue is determination And he was determined to beat Baylor When he needed players he scooped them up from Tennessee Texas and Wisconsin When he had to mold those players he did so with a firmness that auto auto- mat cally drew obedience But the players like their boss and and the I wolves who once howled a lonely plaint of yearning across the now happily chant victory songs They know Wyoming is no Notre Dame yet ct But just wait Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member what hat happened to Baylor |