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Southern football spectacularly emerged from obscurity in 1906 when the late Dan McGugin, brother-in-law and onetime pupil of Michigan's great Fielding H. Yost, coached a team at Vanderbilt University which scored a 4-to-o victory over the football sensation of the age, Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indians. It emerged again after the War when Centre College, an almost unheard of institution of 200 students at Danville, Ky. flared up briefly with All-America Quarterback Bo McMillin* and upset a string of topflight U. S. teams...
...surprised his neighbors by entering the apparently unpromising profession of football coach and athletic director, at Fitzgerald & Clarke Military School (now defunct) at Tullahoma, Tenn. When Fitzgerald & Clarke football teams won the State prep-school championship two years in a row, Coach Dan McGugin asked him to come to Vanderbilt as his assistant...
...McGugin, who was. born in Iowa but prefaced intersectional games with profane locker room descriptions of Sherman's March to the Sea, was the father of Southern football. Other schools began speculating about Dan McGugin's new assistant when for two years (1921-22) Vanderbilt produced undefeated teams. In 1922 both Kentucky and Alabama offered Wade their head coaching jobs. Wallace Wade went to be interviewed in Lexington where there occurred one of the crucial episodes in the history of Southern football. Having practically decided to take the Kentucky job, Wallace Wade waited in an anteroom while...
Last week eight fillies were sold in Lexington, Ky. To sportswriters, whose occupational disease is sentimentality, this sale was an occasion for mourning. It followed hard on an announcement by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney that he was going to give up racing for good, and it marked the beginning of the end of a Grand Old Stable...
Sportswriters' hearts missed a beat when Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, after inheriting the family stable in 1930, intimated that he was less interested in racing than in playing polo. In those Depression days a Wall Street delegation actually beseeched him not to impair public confidence by giving up the country's No. 1 stable, an act which would have looked like economy in high places. Sentiment and enthusiasm for a horse named Equipoise finally determined his application to the Jockey Club for permission to race under his father's colors, "Light-blue jacket, brown...