Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1938 — Page 6
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808 ZUPPKE TO KEEP POST AS ILLINI COACH University Trustees Vote To Retain Veteran Grid Mentor Uhlcugi. Nov. SO —(U.R) It was Zup s greatest victory in 26 years at Illinois but the fight isn't over yet. Dissension in the University of Illinois athletic department apparently remained unhealed today after Its unsuccessful attempt to oust Bob Zuppke as head football coach and place him on a compulsory leave of absence until his retirement age is reached in six years. The colorful little Dutchman resigned yesterday under pressure' from the athletic board, then had his job saved by university trus-i tees who vetoed the ouster propos- ' al by a vote of Bto 1. He arrived 1 in Chicago today with fire in his ‘ eyes for his first public appear-' ance since the coaching situation boiled over — the result of his teams’ poor showings in recent years. ■'Pressure was turned on me down there by men who don't know a five-man line from a quart- ■ erback." he said. “It's been grow- 1 ing all year long and I finally had to put it up to a test vote. “I hop? the athletic board can stand it. We’re not going to be i veiy gpod next year either.” Zup himself informed the trustees that his resignation had been forced by the athletic board It was the first time all the 26 years Zup has been handling Illini football teams—from the golden season of “Red" Grange to the desperate lows of 1932—that his job ever had been endangered. | Even Zup isn't certain of the next move, although friends indi-, cated h‘ might bring the athletic department fight before the public
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* —— * Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday New Haven at Yellow Jackets. Portland at Berne, i Geneva at Kirkland. Saturday Jefferson at Geneva. Hartford at Monroe. Pleasant Mills vs. Alumni st i Commodore gym. Sunday St. Mary's of Michigan City at j Commodores. 3 p. m. ■ ' at a "victory banquet” in his honlor today at Oak Park. 111. where ■ he first gained coaching fame. I It was a trying day for Zuppke I as his h loved job was debated In 1 a secret meeting at a loop hotel. 1 j One of tne trustees. Harold Pogue i ;of Decatur. 111., a ball carrying I star on Zuppke's brilliant chain- | pionship team of 1914. telephoned I him that the resignation was bei ing considered. Another call from i an undisclosed source said it had 1 been accepted and Zup conceded I defeat. The 8 to 1 veto, however, was . I more tian enough to carry even i ! if the absent members. Gov. Heni ry Horr or and Dr. Karl Meyer of, | Chicago had supported the ouster ■ proposal. Zuppke revealed he had been ! approached several times for his I i resignation. He was quoted as saying athletic director Wendell I S. Wilson told him there would be quit? a fuss” if he refused; and early yesterday he resigned, i Wilson declined to say how the I athletic board voted regarding Zuppke's resignation as head ' coach or who headed the move. ■ He acted merely as a messenger. i carrying the board's proposal, al-1 1 though he revealed the group had decided not to fire Zup but to | place htm on a compulsory leave! of absence at a salary of $5.0001 until he is 65. Zuppke was 59 last July 2. Alumni reaction to the proposal was tremendous, proving Zup's popularity which had kept him ! one of tne untouchables in a con- 1 stantly shifting football world, i The trustees' meeting rooms were | flooded vith telephone and tele-1 ! graph messages when it was learned they were considering, i the coach's dismissal. Zuppke's teams are just as pop- , ular. Although his material has been weak since 1934 and his teams have won only 17 of 50 ; Big Ten games since 1928. many : of those 17 were stunning upsets., Before that, when men came big and in Iroves during the boom years, tne little Dutchman piled lup seven conference champion-. ships and built a huge stadium to' seat th' l throngs that came to see his brightest pupil — Galloping Grange—and the later champion- ■ ship teams of 1927 and 1928. I don't know why they'd want to gut me out," Zup said. “They ; just don t understand what we | ; have to contend with and I don't think a new coach would help.” Zuppke's friends insisted his; 1938 record of three victories and five defeats was only an excuse to get rid of a high salaried coach. He reportedly makes SIO,OOO a year.
WARRIORS DROP FIFTH IN ROW .Jefferson Is Defeated By Poling Tuesday Night, 27-20’ The Jefferson Warriors suffered i their fifth consecutive defeat with--1 out victory Tuesday night at the ’ Geneva gymnasium, with the Poling quintet of Jay county scoring a 27 to 20 triumph over the Adams 1 county lads. Alberson was Poling's leading scorer with four field goals, while Tumbleson and Bollenbacher led i Jefferson with seven points each. Poling KG FT TP D. Alberson. f 0 0 0 Smith, f . 3 0 6 Lee, f 0 0 0 . LeFevor, c 12 4 Glentzer, c . 1 0 2 Brubaker, g 12 4 Hunt, g 0 0 0 B. Alberson. g 4 0 8 Windmiller, g 113 Totals. 11 5 27 Jefferson FG FT TP J. Teeple. f 0 11 Luginbill. f 0 2 2 Tumbleson, c 2 3 7 Augsburger, g 11 3 Baker, g 0 0 0 Bollenbacher. g .. 2 3 7 | Totals 5 10 20 j Referee. McGrath t Montpelier). I o
I Today’s Sport Parade I By Henry McLemore Los Angeles, Calif.. Nov. 30. — (U.R) — Rose, orange, prune, and sugar—cotton, .sun. ice. and peach. These are the bowl football games already in existence, and which will be played on Jan. 2. Even in the United States, where we like to do things on a grand scale, eight bowl games would seem enough. However. I. for one (or two. perhaps. because 1 am new so fat that I would cast two votes without anyone questioning me) think that there should be one more bowl game. The new bowl 1 have in mind would be dedicated to determing the national intercollegiate football championship each year. That, and nothing else. It would be devoid of sectionalism, politics or publicity. It would have nothing to do with the social standings' or scholastic ratings of the universities. In short, it would have but one purpose: namely, to bring together the two proved best teams and let them have at one another. It wouldn't be east vs. west, north vs. south, or anywhere vs. anywhere else. If the two best teams happened to be in the same city, country, state, or section, that wouldn't make a bit of difference. If one team was the sort that dressed for dinner and the other was of the homely type that ate in turtle-necked sweaters and threw, not passed, the courses, that would be all right, too. The current bow! situation proves that I am not entirely without reason in urging the creation of another New Year's game. You don't have to be told that the games this New Year's won't see the two best teams pitted against one another. In the Rose Bowl it will be Southern California against Duke. Already beaten by Alabama and Washington, and in danger of losing to Notre Dame Saturday, the Trojans don't even come close to
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being the top team. Duke can scarcely claim that honor, either, despite its perfect record. Its schedule listed too many opponents whose chief claim to fame was a matching set of round heels. The Sugar Bowl won't settle anything. either, with the possible exception that it is possible for fifty thousand or so persons to spend an evening in New Orleans and still get up the next day and go to a footbal game. Carnegie Tech has been beaten by Notre Dame, and T. C. U. won’t prove anything by beating the Tartans again. The Orange Bowl will have Tennessee and Oaklahoma for its attraction. but to make it mean anything the volunteers should be playing either T. C. U., Duke or Notre Dame, because Oklahoma's team, while it did everything asked of it. had an inadequate schedule. The Cotton Bowl, with Texas Tech and Villanova, is just another football game. Now wouldn't it be swell if there were another bowl game this year in which one combination from these four teams — Duke. Tennessee. T. C. U. and Notre Dame — was booked? Because those four are the ranking four, and a care ful study of their schedules and records would enable the two most powerful to be selected. Then, when they had finished playing wp would have the national champion. If I just had a bowl and some tickets and some ushers and a parking lot I'd put this game on, busy as I am with my Christmas shopping. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) o G. E. Five To Meet . Kirkland Thursday The G. E. basketball team will play Kirkland Thursday night at 8 o’clock at the old high school gymnasium. Admission will ibe 5 and 10 cents. o Jackets Season Ducats Go On Sale Tonight Local basketball fans were reminded today that season tickets for the home games of the Decatur Yellow .Jackets in their new gymnasium may be procured at the gym entrance tonight and Thursday from 7 until 8:30 p. m. Those desiring tickets may select tneir choice of seats iby calling at the gymnasium. The price is 82.25. The sale will be conducted under the supervision of W. Guy Brown. o 500 Sheets B*/ 2 xll. 16-Ib White Paragon Bond typewriting paper 55c. The Deca* nr Democrat Co. ts
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Eddie Anderson For several years a successful coach at Holy Cross college, Dr. E<blis Anderson, one-time Notre Dame star, has been named to take over the coaching reigns at the University of lowa, succeeding Irl Tubbs, who resigned. Anderson is believed to have signed for $12,500 a year.
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Basketball interest in Decatur is rising to fever pitch this week, with fans all agog over the opening of the new gymnasium for the Yellow Jackets. The new gymnasium, located at Third and Jafferson streets, will be used for the first time in a regular game Friday night, when the Yellow Jackets entertain the New Haven Bulldogs. The Jackets have picked a tough foe for the opening tilt on the new court, as New Haven has been consistently strong for several seasons and this year should be no exception. The JackeTs dropped two decisions to New Haven last year and will bS seeking to avenge these defeats. —oOo— Season tickets, good for 10 home games, have been placed on sale at the high school, and reserved seats may be obtained tonight or Thursday night by calling at the new gymnasium. Offered at reduced from previous seasons because of increased seating capacity, a heavy season ticket sale is anticipated. —oOo — The Decatur Commodores will offer an innovation to local fans Sunday afternoon, when the Commodores entertain St. Mary’s of Michigan City at the local gym. Sunday will be “2 for 1” day, with each admission sold entitling one person to witness the game without
charge. The name l» scheduled to start at 3 o'clock, with no preliminary game. —oOo— The present standing of Wells county quintets follows: 'Standings W. L. Pct. Bluffton 3 0 .1.000 Ossian 4 1 .800 Chester .. 4 1 .800 Union 3 2 .600 Petroleum 2 2 .500 Rockcreek 1 4 ,200 Liberty 1 4 .200 Jackson 0 4 .000 000— Both Decatur teams will see ac- ’ tion next week, with each team playing one game On the home floor. The Yellow Jackets will open the week's schedule Tuesday night, meeting their old rivals, the I Bluffton Tigers, at Bluffton. Wednesday night, the Commodores will entertain St. Rose of Lima Ohio, and Friday night, the Jackets will be hosts to the Redskins from North Side of Fort Wayne. 000— One year ago this week: Garrett 32. Yellow Jackets 26. St. Mary's, Anderson 38, Commodores 31. Berne 26. Portland 21. Hartford 68. Monroe 14. Commodores 2nds 35, Pleasant Kirkland 52, Geneva 25. Mills 17. Monmouth 35. Pleasant Mills 16. o—— , TWO CONVICTED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) that her interpreter before the grand jury had given faulty translations and that she was able to del cipher a code only by means of a key with which she had been supplied. The government had conj tended that the easy flow of Miss Hofmann's handwriting when she decoded the secret messages indij cated a thorough knowledge of the ! code. Later, the jury sent for exhibits relating to Glaser’s testimony. The j most serious charge against him was that he had given his friend. Guenther Gustave Rumrich, an i army deserter who turned government's witness, the army's “restricted Z signals" for communication i between military planes and landing fields. Rumrich said he had turned the signals over to Nazi ag < uts as a secret navy code for communication between the fleet and land batteries. Judge Knox's charge described ; Rumrich as "an unmitigated liar,” j and raise dthe question of whether Leon G. Turrou former government ..gent who investigated the case, was "corrupt, seeking financial rei ward and widespread publicity,’ or ! was "an honest and conscintious j agent.” o , . _ —— INSANE ESCAPE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 1 were herded outside into a play yard. There was neither time nor help to keep them all together Some screamed in fright; others laughed and shouted amid the danger, as flames shot higher. Guards seized many inmates blinded by smoke or excitedly running back into the fire and carried them out. None was believed killed although a check was not available immediately. Police and firemen tried to keep the milling persons under control, i There were too many. Some fell to the ground, screaming, others i broke away and ran. anywuere they saw an opening.
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Livestock Shippers Warned By Exchange Chicago Nov. 3q — (UP)— ti, p Chicago livestock exchange todny warned farmers, stock men and shippers that any livestock conMgned by them to the Chicago market will be at their own risk until the strike of handlers is settled. The exhange will negotiate for an embargo on such shipments. Livestock now in the market, including rejects from the international live.'■tock exposition, were to be weighed and sold by 1 p. m. under agree, meat between the exchange and the strikers. Revival Being Held At Pleasant Valley Revival meetings are being held nightly at the Pleasant Valley Methodist church, six miles southeast of the city. The Rev. E. J. Mills, pastor, is in charge. The general public is invited to attend. o Villanova Refuses Bid To Cotton Bowl Villanova. Pa.. Nov. 36—<U.R> - The Villnnova college athletic control board today declined an invitation for its football teams to meet Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl game at Dallas. Texas, lan. 2 o Funds Paid To State More Than Doubled Indianapolis. Nov. 30 — <U.R> — Volume ot public money flowing through the state treasury has more than doubled in the last 10
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