Show Dodd Of Georgia Tech F. F One of the great football coaches stepped do down as head coach at Georgia Tech recently fro t 2 after 36 years with the team In 22 years as head coach he hewon hewon S 'S won games and lost 54 went to 13 bowls winning nine eight straight B BUT tIT THE won won-losee record of Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech is not what made hi him m one of the nations nation's outstanding sports fig fig- ures tires He was one of the few major major major ma ma- jor college football coaches who still stUl believed the game should be fun for the players ir practice lice tice sessions Thus he seldom held heavy rough scrimmages and he usually usually ally wore a smile as he supervised supervised supervised super super- workouts on the field Nor did he automatically turn away small men who came to play and Tech teams often featured small but excellent backs who backs who performed Performed fe feats ts no one else thought they could SO HIGHLY Y was Dodd respected re respected respected re- re that when he voluntarily decided to give up coaching school officials let him name name his successor His assistants and every fellow coach in the tough southeastern conference went wenton on record as saying no other coach could achieve such results re results results re- re with an going easy-going man man- ner If ever the term southern gentleman gentleman gentleman gen gen- could be attributed to a football coach Bobby Dodd of the Yellow Jackets deserved that title His retiring words were that he would have won only half his games this year had he stayed on so on so tough was the schedule so much lighter the talent This took the pressure of off his successor immediately it was typical of Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech In 1966 his team was 9 1 I |