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Show ETOf AMES RflPST Ml , I I I I I II ' .SSI I I SI I I 111 . , I 111 I I I 1936 Proves Good Season For Mentors By FRANCIS J. POWERS (Special to The Telegram) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 The 1938 football (eaaon passed with , fewer casualties in the coaching profession pro-fession than any In year. A few coaches voluntarily moved to better paying or more satisfying positions, but Colonel Heartley An- , derson, the old Notre Damer, who worked for North Carolina State, was the only outstanding eoach to get the bounce. Maybe the dear dumb alumni are softening up a bit or the increase ' of business has boosted the price of scalping knives beyond their wallets. wal-lets. Most important of the coaching changes occurred in" the middle . west, where Dana X. Bible left Nebraska for Texas; Oeele Solem l rrrrlt Iowa for Syracuse and Major ' "Biff Jones retired from the Oklahoma campus to resume sol- i dieting. Nebraska will find it difficult to' replace Bible, whose teams won six Big Six championships in eight seasons sea-sons and almost demoralized the tidy Transmississlppl conference. I hope the Huskers will not overlook over-look Lincoln Lyman, one of their own sons, when it comes to selecting a successor for Dr. Bible. Lyman has been helping Bible for the past ' two seasons and with 18 year of experience in professional football should know all of the answer. Lyman owns a 100,000-acre cattle ranch out in the sandhills of western i Nebraska and the etory is told, although al-though I would not vouch for its accuracy, that the vicious blocking of Husker linemen last season was entirely due to practice bulldogging some of Lyman' steers. Mr. Lyman is a small party of 275 pounds and it's no end of fun to see him wrecking hotel furniture when he decides to rest his bones. Iowa has not yet selected a sue- i . cessor for Ossle Solem. but the Hawkeyee' fancy seem to be for a Notre Dame graduate. The names of Dr. Eddie Anderson, now at Holy Cross, and -Buck" Shaw, who packed Santa Clara through a brilliant bril-liant campaign, are prominently mentioned for the position. If Notre Oame graduate Is hired at Iowa, the Rockne boys will be thick In the middle west, " ' with Noble Kiser working at Purdue, Pur-due, Harry 8tuhldreher at Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Charlie Baehman at Michigan Mich-igan Stole, Gus Dorala at Detroit and Elmer Layden operating on the home base at South Bend. Layden really should be Included with the Big Ten coaches, for now that Notre Dame play three con- . ference games each season It often comes very close to being the unofficial un-official champion of that organise- ' tion. Two seasons ago the Irish handed ', Ohio State, cochampion with Minnesota, Minne-sota, its only beating, and last fall ruined Northwestern s hopes for an undefeated team. Tom Stidham, successor to Biff . Jones at Oklahoma, is one of the I few Indian coaches left in the busl- 1 ness. Stidham played his football for the Haskell Indian school when Dick Hanley coached the Wander- ' ing Redmen. StidHkm and 'Tiny" Roebuck were two of the best tackles of their day and few of the. white boy wanted to try them a second Ume. Stidham served his coaching apprenticeship ap-prenticeship under Hanley at Northwestern North-western and then went to Norman as Jones' assistant. A native of Oklahoma, the Sooner follower are satisfied he will do welL |