Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican National Committee (1953-57), he knows more Republican politicians, and is more familiar with the intricacies of the party's machinery than any other man. The fact that he is no friend of the other G.O.P. candidate on the horizon. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Hall clearly wanted the Republican gubernatorial nomination that went to Rocky last year), has put Hall even more solidly in Nixon's camp...
...these shamans of big-time football turn for advice to the coach at a small Eastern college? Answer: Delaware's chess-playing, 39-year-old David Moir Nelson has one of the finest football brains in the business. And, says Dietzel, "he is not selfish in sharing his knowledge with others." In a word, "Admiral" Nelson is the coaches' coach...
Their Dish of T. Coaching at the University of Maine in 1950, Dave Nelson conceived the winged T, which stations a halfback outside an end for added power and trickery, but uses the traditional two-on-one line blocking of the single wing. Nelson perfected the system at Delaware during the past eight seasons, produced a brand of pounding possession football (his favorite slogan: "Beloved are the bastards that grind it out"), and Delaware has won 53, lost 20, tied...
Personal Call. Unsurprisingly, the Nelson phone rings for more than advice: many schools, including Pitt, Indiana and Baylor, have tried to draw him into major-college coaching. Michigan-born Dave Nelson learned his football with Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan powerhouses (one teammate: Forest Evashevski), but no one has been able to shake him loose from Delaware. "I like the small-college atmosphere," he says. "It's a good place to raise a family...
...Nelson applauds Delaware's low-pressure approach to high-pressure football. His first-team players were all recruited from within 100 miles of Newark, practice a bare seven hours a week, think nothing of joshing with their coach, who still manages to look like an undergraduate, prefers Pepsi-Cola to hard liquor. "Football at Delaware is not an end in itself," says Nelson. "The preservation of intercollegiate football is on this level...