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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Ask Me Another Question The Questions 1. Who was the first Roman emperor to protect Christians and become one of them? It couldnt be, but oh, how won2. What is the method of enamderful if it were true that Spang metal or porcelain called? eling short to one of while the back, liked her, tool Dooley had tried gOME 3. A farmer signed the in college football asked put caution into her head. of Independence. Who was he? Theres a lot of emotion seething your correspondent to name the 15 4. When the Rubicon is mencoaches in the The leading Some country. in the air in wartime, Jill think of what? of it is wonderful and fine, and some only answer we could think of in a tioned, you of it is a passing fever, a sort of given time limit was this: The 15 Julia McFarlanes husband, Richard, disappeared In World War I, leaving her with two children. She and her John I. McFarlane, have father-in-latried in vain to find some trace of years later, Ric Richard. Twenty-fivIs 27 and serving in the army of World War n, while Jill, 26, professes an interest in Spang Gordon, a young lieutenant. Julia is worried about Ric, who has washed out In the air corps, and about Jill, who she is afraid might become an army wife, subject to the same grief she has endured. She confides these worries to Dave Patterson, a family friend who loves Julia but has never told her due to her loyalty to Richard. Spang and Jill go to a dance. heavy and dark and sour in his breast. There was so much that he remembered. Julia McFarlane, a dancing, copper-heade- d scrap of fire Julia, seventeen years old and as full of laughter as the little streams that tumbled down the hills coaches who have the best recklessly into the river. He had recklessness that leads men to say terial. been in love with her them But they dont really mean and There is little questioning the fact Richard McFarlane had had a red- women to believe them. So keep wheeled buggy, and the glamour of your head, no matter how your that for the season of 1946, Red Blaik of Army deserved his award, sophistication had Invested him. He heart goes. due largely to the fact that Red and had had some kind of unimportant I was raised in the military trahis staff carried Army three years brothjob in Washington then, but Dave dition, she told Spang. My had known that he was a swash- er and I were utterly different, but without a defeat. Time and again we have been buckler and a gambler and a liar, even in those stodgy years when asked to rank the coaches in order. even then. soldiers was and CHAPTER ni everybody pacifist This is an impessi-bl- e Dave Patterson tensed his hands were tramps in khaki who werent job. Look over to admitted or on hotels, theaters the so good his horse raised that reins, Julias lips quivered; the color a few from the milijust to Ric and I marched his head and snorted. always came into her face and then relist our was Neyland of because music. It tary and a little Jill ceded, leaving it aged McFarlane, christened Julia, Blaik of Tennessee, was a kind father of glory special was dizzily, ecstatically happy. filled with patience. of Harlow Army, we we hated had, and anything The station-wago- n was full of rat- that He was the childrens father, Little of Harvard, that detracted his from splendor. tles disand lumbered along at a Dave. Jills father. Hes more hers Columbia, Crisler Jill Its a wonderful thing for a child than ever now that its war again. creet thirty miles an hour. of Michigan, Thomto have something like that to live a nursed brief her dress that hope She wears his memory like a decoas of Alabama, to. up ration. I cant destroy him for Jill. wouldnt be ruined by grease or Was someLeahy of Notre or he decorated She admires me now. I want her something before she bad a chance Dame, McMillin of the thing? asked, Spang steering to in dance shadthis small but it; to keep on admiring me. Thats Indiana, Neely of slow bus. a vehicle around halted ow upon the beauty of the night she selfish, I suppose. But for people Rice, Butts of GeorThe was bus full of soldiers hanging with forthright minds like Jills, the put out of her mind, because she heads gia, McKeever of of the win- out and shoulders world is pretty well filled with peoor11 Wade of Duke. Snavely of of them grinned and some and dows, ple who have to be despised. And some of them saluted, laughingly, North Carolina, Odell of Yale, of course theres Ric. He worries of U.C.L.A., Bierman of and Spang snapped a salute in me. John I. says Ive spoiled him, return. Some of our boys," he Minnesota but why keep on? This but right now Im afraid to take is only a partial list, where, if given told Jill. On their way. Destinathe same material and the same anything away from Ric, anything tion unknown. that strengthens him, even a little. schedules, luck would have to conversatook Jill the No, up But they know that their father tion again, wishing they hadnt write the story. is dead. Thats why hes heroic I can say this. There is no bunch glimpsed those traveling troops, to them, because hes a splendid connected with sport that gives as look would back not wishing Spang idea that never had any substance. at them. No, I dont know that he much time, thought, worry and comIf he had come back well, I won't was decorated. My grandfather in- plete concentration as football talk about that, Dooley. But you vestigated when the war was over, coaches give. They brood by day know that we all grew up together when we didnt hear anything from and night. An ankle, a shoulder, a I know the kind of life you had my father but he couldnt find any- knee or a back can make all the with Richard thing at all. But they were all difference in the world. Those in front figure they must stay there. The Yes, I know. There are things heroes, werent they? I cant forget, too, Dave. UnpleasA losers must win a game or two. Yes, they were all heroes. ant things. John I. has been at me dead soldier was always a hero, he There is a big difference in material for years to have Richard declared was thinking to himself, a trifle bit- from time to time but the old grads and the public at large never considlegally dead. But somehow the idea terly. is horrible to me, like opening a And so are you and all those er this. They look only to the final grave. boys back there! War is a heros scores. Such coaches as Red Drew of Mississippi, Red Sanders of Vanbusiness. I cant talk to you about it, of course, Dooley. Not that or anyWars a job to do, Spang de- derbilt and Paul Bryant of Kentucky thing else thats in my mind so murred, a dirty job that takes men may be unknown nationally, but to do it. So we go and do it. We they are as good as the best with long as you are Richard McFarlanes wife, Dave said quietly, dont like it and we growl and gripe, what they have. and the enlisted men cuss the ofleaning forward, his long slender A Coaches Coach hands dangling between his knees. ficers and the officers cuss the poliThere may be a better coach than But I cant agree with you. Your ticians, but we wouldnt miss it, not Dick Harlow of Harvard but who attitude doesnt make sense. any of us. But well be glad when is he? Neyland of Tennessee can I know. But most of the really its ended and we can go home. important things in life dont make Lets not talk about the war. keep pace with anyone. Jock Suthsense. Jill shivered a little, erland was the coaches coach in colThough there doesnt seem to be very lege until he came over to pro ranks. Dave walked the length of the Spend a few days with Steve Owen much else to talk about. room, his hands thrust into his and Greasy Neale, in or out of seatalk Lets about DooThe dead are dead, you, pockets. Spang son, and you get part of the answer I know youre Ric Mcsuggested. ley. The decent thing is to bury fall, winter, spring and summer Farlanes but them and keep your memories. Tell all I sister, thats She had seen him only twice. do know about you, except that theyre always talking and thinking me one thing. Is there any love left in your heart for Richard Mc- was with Spang, and his eyes ap- youre and like military football, still playing over games they lost. bands and Farlane? and life was now her, proved dancing. just Stagg at 84 was still Thats all there is, really. I in Lonnie She put her hands to her throat very wonderful. harness this last season, relucShe had met the reality of war went off to school, and I wasnt tant to with a young, wistful gesture. retire. Lonnie was a star at Thats unfair of you, Dave. Thats with a sinking sense of panic. All terribly bright, though I finally did Yale, 60 years ago. With all the a question I havent dared to ask the girls of her own age that she grab an A.B. And then I came tears they shed and all the moaning home to knew all had these years. I did love been caught up in a drive an ambulance crazy myself, or join the WAC or something, any- they give the world, it is almost him terribly once, and then, after sort of whirlwind of despair. impossible to shake them loose with'We haven't a prayer! time went on, when there was no they thing with brass buttons attached. out using a grenade. But word, no record, nothing at all, mourned. my grandfather sat on that Theyll all go off to Your i something bitter that Ive fought, fight, , and then when they come idea. You met him old John L once has correspondent more than ducked the opportunity of with all my soul and all my back well be old maids, and theyll Hes a unique character. He adores strength, began to grow in me. I marry girls years younger, kids my mother, though he and my fa- picking or trying to pick the 10 battle it at night, and its like fight-- I that are in high school now. It was ther didnt appreciate each other best coaches of all time. Looking ing a shadow, but a shadow with that way in the last war; my mothexactly, I understand, one of those back to something over 40 years wed a steely, strangling grip, something er said so. family things. ,He lectured me like say that four of the best were Pop you cant touch or see or feel, but Some of them had already pulled a top sergeant and said that Mother Warner, Knute Rockne, Hurry-u- p I cant defeat. out of the dreary eddy and gone had had a tough life, and now she Yost and Percy Haughton. i on off Pop Warner gave football more on mad tangents, marrying men needed me around to keep things Dooley, you were a child and of the technical side than anyone else, you fell in love with a boy. All this overnight, marrying men they knew merry and bright because, morbid stuff a psychiatrist could little about, men who were changed course, Ric would go into the serv- including the single and double wing, ice, so there I am just a home girl. a system still just as effective as 5 explain it; I cant. If you were to by the glamour of uniforms, anyT. ! meet Richard now, suddenly im-- I thing to be saved from being sucked If they keep on taking our men off the place Ill end up hoeing com possible, of course, just a figure down into the dismal doom of Colorful Yost But something fastidious, and feeding pigs and things. J of speech but if he were to come Yost gave football its first flare back into your life you might be something that held aloof, in Jill of coaching color and Michigan its sick with disillusion. Youd discov- - had made her scornful of these Love Catches Up first great college football record er that you had grown, youd know fevered and uncertain escapes. With Jill 56 victories in five years, blemished that young love of yours was mereShe told herself that she was a the Well, only by a tie with Minnesota, before eats a of one lot of army those ly wild and pretty fires mature woman. She was not a silly And the navy all those Chicago broke the string in 1905. that flame up before the age of rea- young thing to be swept away on a bacon. son and then die. tide of adolescent emotion. Her tramps get too fat to waddle off Knute Rockne brought to football its greatest combination of coaching mother had not been eighteen years their ships. You turn here, Jill said, and ability, human interest and personold. An infant, practically! The Girls They She that building on the hill with all the ality. Rock, in addition to being a thought of the eighteen-year-ol- d is the club. Dont laugh at great coach, was also the games Leave Behind lights girls that she knew and how frightit s a funny little place but the star personal contribution when it 'To ashes? Thats what you were fully young and naive they were, it; and was swiftly sorry for them and people are grand, and we have fun came to human contact. going to say, isnt it? And somein it. Ill bet Im the only female Bob Znppke of Illinois brought to times the ashes are very dark and for that young and deluded creaan officer. IU bet I have football coaching the added gifts of dragging ture who had been her mother. bitter. very Actually, Im not cherto fight off mobs to get even one philosophy and humor. Zup had ishing ashes though, Dave. I dont dance. more color than two rainbows. One know just what it is Im keeping, Jill Talks Dont try to tell me a lieutenant of his best friends was the late Howexactly an ember, maybe, that re- About rates that high! Think this bus ard Jones of Yale and Southern CalHerself fuses to bum out. Of course, if will make the hill? ifornia. No two men were ever furI liked your mother, Spang said Richard were to come back now "It always has. But the big car ther apart as human beings. Bnt as he had Id probably realize that Ive been abruptly, though caught has no rubber, and I put Hey were fine coaches and close She's a minepractically harboring something unworthy. It the trend of her thoughts. up because I felt it was the would change everything. Dont grand person. And she looks young thing to do, though Grand- Haughton of Harvard today is a me for being a fool, please. enough to be your sister. father the deterioration goes greatly underrated coach. Cold, says And dont desert me. Jill was right on. Dooleys forty four. hard, austere, he was one of the He put his hand on her head and not quite sure that she enjoyed the of cars around here. Plenty greatest. A star tactician and of She being Dooleys sister. roughed her hair gently. I wont idea walk for weeks to save nician, Haughton was probably the desert you, Dooley. But it doesnt and my father were married when enough gas for a Thats best of all in discipline. As Tack partv. make me happy, seeing you beat they were children practically just a keen half-wa- y but Hardwick told me once, If Haughband, probably jour head against a stone wall for- before the last war. Then he went through the dance the leader will ton told Harvard to jump off a 100 ever. Id better go now. I rode to France before I was born . . . dash off and enlist in the coast foot cliff and he would catch us She stopped abruptly, knowing that over, and its five miles back. wed all jump. And Percy would guard. or sooner later Spang might be goShe said, "Good-by- , Dave. John They parked at the end of a line catch us. too. She not could overseas, ing I. will be sorry to have missed and walked across the mown grass, you. say, He never came back. Not ani Jill held He likes you a lot. And she up her frock and hoped Character Builders pressed with Spang so near, not with the toe dew bis hand. The thousand, at least a thousand, wouldnt ruin her slippers. about them like Dave went out, his head thrust lovely present lying Probably toe dress was sagging football coaches weve met and an aura of moonlight. forward a little, as men walk who again, but that wasnt important known in toe last 40 odd years, have So you were born to the military now. It seemed a little odd that it made an almost unbelievable conlove the land best though they may The first time I saw you had ever been important. The im- tribution, not only to sport, but also not serve it. He closed the screen tradition? I thought you looked like a daughdoor without a sound. portant thing now was this brief, to toe good of the nation at large. The horse ter of the regiment. Something shining hour she held in her hands. Not all of them, of course. But ere 8 as the Pave opened the about you the- way you stood so Over its , ose glittering rim into the fu- big majority have turned out a great kokind him, and slid fL e with your eyes shining straight in ture where o of ashes toe way of training, instruce saddle. empty days job when the colors went by, the way might lie, she would not look. She tion, discipline and, if youll pardon He trotted slowly up the lane, you stood on tiptoe when the band was going to be happy! She was in toe phrase, "character building." rousing all the little pigs aggin, and played, I knew that you belonged to love, and no doubt it showed on her, the horce snorted at their Did you ever know Pan McGugia scurrying the army. she tried to keep her gay or Lonnie escape. But Dave leaned forward Stagg? Ask their play-ers- , scudded. 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