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Show 60-Minute Men Not Rare, Says Iowa's New Coach By TOM 8ILER CHICAGO, Nov. 21 Iff) Don't be surprised to hear any day now that Eddie Anderson, Iowa's "miracle "mir-acle man," has been tossed bodily out of the football coaches' union. In this era of moaning coaches and "three-deep" grid squads, Anderson An-derson is being hailed as the coach of the year for curing Iowa's grid ills with a handful of leftovers and a few sophomores. A year ago the now powerful Nile Kinnick and company were able to win only one game, and that against the University of Chicago. Not Pesslmlstle But Iowa's country doctor, serving serv-ing his first year as Hawkeye mentor, men-tor, employs methods unlike those of most of his contemporaries. He tells his boys and the public frankly frank-ly what he thinks his team can accomplish, uses only a modicum of pessimism and holds that a "three deep" squad of behemoths is not essential to victory. Anderson said his team could defeat Notre Dame, and It did. After that game he said his boys could whip. Minnesota, and they did that too, with a furious last-period last-period rally. This gave his "team and a half he's been using 16 players a game a record of six victories in seven games, having bowed only to Michigan. "There Is no reason, barring ae oldents, why any boy who Is football player shouldn't be able to play a full game," said the Sa-year-old doctor. "It requires excellent excel-lent conditioning, of course, but represents no particular strain on them physically." Kinnick, the star back, has played every minute of Iowa's six major games; Mike Enich, sturdy tackle, has played the last five games without relief, and five other regulars have played at least the three past games without going go-ing to the bench. Eddie is not the dictator typ of coach. "I told the boys when we started start-ed out here," explains Eddie, "that they could expect to be treated like men. We never bother to check their movements. Not even the night before a game. After alt It Is their game. If they aren't Interested enough to take care of themselves, then they wouldn't be aay goad to us anyway." To hear Anderson tell It th success of the Iowa team was simple enough, but his planning j and strategy cannot be discounted so easily. |