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Show -ThreNew Grid Goaches See Teams Play Stellar Games in 1937 Campaign By BILL BOM NEW YORK," Oct.; 20 t AP) Attracted by lucrative offeri or fiven an opening when their own superiors went elsewhere, iome SO college football coachei began the current aeaaon with brand-new Jtibj as "head man." j Today, with some already past the tmifway mark of their first cam-l psign and others Just approaching It. only three of the SO-odd starters have survived In the elect and select se-lect set of those whose teems are Unbeaten and untied. Reading in the customary order, they are Ossie So-lem So-lem of Syracuse. "Hooks" Mylin of Lafayette and George Sauer of New Hampshire. The most startling about face undoubtedly un-doubtedly has been achieved at Lafayette, La-fayette, where the combination of Mylm's coaching and a fine freshman fresh-man team of two years ago that's Just hitting Its stride has made the Leopards change their spots and knock them off their rivals. The school that laat year scored 1 points In nine games, and won only once, hit Ita three-victory peak last Saturday by whipping tieorgptown. It will go up against New York university thia Saturday, Satur-day, not only unbeaten and untied, un-tied, but unscored on. Yet Lafayette's chances of remaining re-maining in the charmed circle are poorest of the three. Despite their record, the Pennsylvanians will be definite underdogs against N. Y. U.. victor last year by 40-0 and bolstered this week by the return of several cripples. Syracuse, quick to absorb the So-1cm So-1cm Minnesota system, and New Hampshire, taking to the tactics taught by Sauer, former Nebraska ace. will be favorites against Maryland Mary-land and Vermont, respectively. On their records these three are the standouts of the "new coach" group, but right on their heels come four others with one tie each to mar their records. Heading the quartet Is Navy, coached by Lieutenant H. J. Hardwlck. deadlocked last Saturday Satur-day by Harvard and scheduled for a clash with Notre Dame. Then come Nebraska, under Biff Jones: Albright, coached by Lone Star Diets, and Miami (Fla.), with Jack Harding at the helm. The other 23. including such noted Institutions as Oklahoma, North Carolina State. Bucknell. Iowa. Texas. Carnegie Tech. Marquette, San Francisco -and Iowa State, have lost anywhere from one game Oklahoma. N. C. State and Bucknell are in that group) to four. Yet if they all haven't succeeded In keeping their score sheets clean, quite a few have helped keep the season's excitement at a proper pitch. Biff Jones' Nebraskans. for In-atance, In-atance, provided the highlight of one weekend by humbling mighty Minnesota, Min-nesota, then were themselves the party of the second part last Saturday, Satur-day, when they were tied by Oklahoma, Okla-homa, coached by Biff's former aid, Tom Stidham. Carnegie Tech, though It has managed to win only one game under BUI Kern, made that a big one Notre Dame. Little Do Paul, coached by Ben Connor, toaeed m bombshell of no mean proportions Into the Big Ten ranks by playing Illinois all even. Immediate success hasn't followed all of the mentors from the old job to the new. Frank Murray, moving from Marquette to Virginia, has aeen his Cavaliers come out on top only one In four starts. Just aa Dana Bible's Texas Longhorns have beaten beat-en only Texas Tech while losing to Louisiana State and Arkansas and tying Oklahoma. But they do say Virginia has a whale of a freshman squad, and, of course. Bible has a 10-year lease on his Texas Job. So perhaps both are working on the old and reliable policy pol-icy of "make haste slowly." |