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Show John Ileisman to Retire . as Coach of Football . With .the close of tlie IDJ7 .gridiron campaign rounding out a coaching a reer of :W years. John W. Heisman. ethletlc director and head, football I coach nt Rice Institute at Houston. Texas, lias announced bis retirement. With tlie exception of Alonzo A. Rtugg of the University of Chicago, no man has coached football longer than Hels man. The veteran announced his resignation resigna-tion at a banquet rf Kice students. The resignation has been necepted and while the sixty-year-old mentor did not outline bis plans for the future, fu-ture, he Indicnted he had coached his last football team. I'efore coming to Rice. Heisman coached for several years at Georgia Tech, including 1917 when tlie Oolden Tornado ranked as r.ne of tlie country's coun-try's leading elevens. |