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Show Jock to Coach West Virginia By LAWTON CARVER NEW YORK, Jam- 3 (INS) Dr. John Bain Sutherland, otherwise known as Jock, will coach football foot-ball at th University of West Virginia next season and for as long thereafter as he cares to remain, re-main, we are prlveleged to report today, upon advices that the deal Is about to be closed. In accepting this offer he Is passing up a 815,000 a year eon-tract eon-tract with the professional Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Pirates because he wants to remain collegiate and a "very good" offer from a prominent eastern east-ern school because tha latter wants to remain collegiate. By way of explanation, Sutherland Suther-land could have moved Into one of the Ivy-festooned eastern joints right from the time that he was fired at Pittsburgh, but for the fact that a national magazine carried car-ried an expose of Pittsburgh methods, meth-ods, linking Dr. Sutherland up as a collaborator In what transpired there. Chose Feeltloa This shooed off the eastern School, which knew about Dr. Sutherland's character - building on a broad seal but didnt Ilk to see It in print So ho hasnt coached since he was fired from Pitt and haa let th Pittsburgh Pirates' offer dangle la tha meantime mean-time while seeking out the right spotand Wast Virginia ta It At Pittsburgh Dr. Sutherland had his choice of players until th code Bowman named -for Its parent. par-ent. Chancellor John C. Bowman tceeu On rallewliis Pss |