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C3 IRISH 'CINCH' At Northwestern: Page 11. BADGERS SET To Stop Michigan: Page 10. nr Cn nr SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917. 4 rows aim ilk (IB te I 1 .1 1 THE BEST OF THE BEST The bent of all the football player In 1039 wan Nile Klnnlck (left), who blonnomed into a full-fledged star under Anderson. HAIL, ANDERSON Back In November, 1038, when Iowa was a regular tenant in the Western conference football cellar, Eddie Anderson was whipped In from Holy Crotm to run the Hawk force.

Here's part of the crowd which greeted him in Iowa City just nine yearn ago. A SICK MAN When the war was over, Anderson cam back to Iowa, but hi health wan't with him. He wa laid up until shortly before the opening game of the 1948 season. It ha been rumored that if Anderson ever did quit, his poor health would be a primary factor. In Days of Kinnick and Famed Ironmen mmiKm has mm mm CHanelier Accepts Dt; OSoard io Today By Rert McGrane.

(Staff Writar. IOWA CITY, IA. (SATURDAY) Dr. Eddie Anderson resigned as head football coach at the University of Iowa early today. The resignation was accepted by President Virgil M.

Handier, who announced it will be presented formally to the board in control of athletics this morning. There was believed to be a possibility that the board would refuse to accept the resignation. Anderson pcrnonally submitted his resignation, effective July 1, 1948, to President Hancher. Dr. Eddie said that "considerable loose talk' about the state had induced him to take this action.

He Began Career In Dubuque. lly ltrad Wilson. It was eight years ago that Dr. Eddie Anderson was the toast of the collegiate football world as Coach of the Year. Coming to Iowa in 1939 from Holy Cross, Anderson, a one-time pupil of Knute Rockne, welded the famous Ironmen.

This team, the year before, had the pants wis fi with Athletic Director Paul Brechler and asked Jim Jordan, director of the university's news bureau, to attend the sessions. Great Start. Anderson, native Iowan who starred as an end at Notre Dame, took over as the Hawkeye football boss in 1939 and immediately developed the most colorful and one of the outstanding teams Iowa ever had. Termed the "Ironmen" because a shortage of substitutes forced the regulars to play most of the time, this team upset Notre Dame and lost only one contest. This year's team is the first Anderson has had at Iowa which has failed to reach the .500 mark against major competition.

When Dr. Anderson came to Iowa in 1939, the debt on the Iowa stadium was approximately $450,000, with bond interest for a period of 10 years. In addition, the university owed the federal government about $65,000 in back taxes. To Clear All Obligations. The stadium debt now has been reduced to a place where this year's receipts will entirely clear all obligations and leave the school a substantial balance.

Iowa, incidentally, is playing to its greatest crowds this year in spite of its poor season. Anderson's contract, on an annual pay basis that netted him a total of $12,500.04 in 1946, was the most remunerative ever signed with a Hawkeye football coach. The resignation comes at the conclusion of Anderson's most disastrous year at the head of Iowa football. Only a victory over Indiana and ANDERSON Continued on Pag Ten. HECK SAYS: We Have Those Super White Wings Shirts They Look Better Longer ALSO: Wings Pajamas Fine Fabrics Plain Colors and Patterns A Fine Selection to Choose From 3.50 to 5.00 Come In And See Them Clothior 608 WALNUT ST.

1 gSSS- MAN In 104S Anderson went Into, the army medical corps as the head of the department of urology at Schick General Hospital in Clinton, la. letter he wa sent oversea where he nerved a a major In famed Churchill Hospital, England. No Optimism In Hawkeye Camp Today PROBABLE LINEUPS. IOWA. M1N.NKSOTA.

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I'urdii 1 4 Wlaounatn 17 21 40 IS A 31 114 at 21 4A 14 171 IOWA CITY, IA. Any aign of optimism hereabouts escaped this observer Friday as Iowa awaited Minnesota and the last stand of a disappointing football season The Hawks, smashed 46-14 by Wisconsin in their last effort, will start once more with the men who have been considered regulars throughout the season. "That's to see If they can redeem themselves," one bystander suggested. "It's their last chance." Only one change of note was In evidence as Dr. Eddie Anderson revealed his starting unit.

Earl Banks, a standout on the 1946 team who hasn't earned a spot in the opening lineup since the U.C.L.A. game, will at right guard. There was no one in sight here Friday to dispute Minnesota's right to the favorite's role, with the Gopher margin conceded to be anything from a couple of touchdowns to a batch of 'em. Much of the downhearted-ness encountered here stems from the Wisconsin rout when the Badgers earned IS points before they made a first down. No opponent ever had returned a punt for a touchdown against one of Dr.

Eddie's teams prior to the Wisconsin game. The Badg ers did it three times. Spirit Satisfactory. Iowa's spirit has been reported as satisfactory this week in prac tlce, but it was Dr. Eddie himself who suggested: "It's Saturday afternoon that counts." A heavy snow blanketed Iowa City Friday night and the pros pect of crisp weather at game time loomed.

The playing field will remain covered until shortly before the 1:30 p. m. start. However, the wet snow which blanketed this section recently fell while the field was uncovered. The gridiron was scraped clean before the tarpaulin was put in place.

IOWA-MINNESOTA SERIES SCORES. 1R91 42-4 1901 16-0 1902 34-0 1903 75-0 1904 11-0 1905 39-0 1909 41-0 1911 24-6 1912 56-7 1914 7-0 1915 51-13 67-0 1918 'Iowa, 6-0 1919 Iowa. 9-S 1920 'Iowa, 28-T 1921 Iowa, 41-7 1922 'Iowa, 28-14 1923 20-7 1924 'Iowa, 13-0 1925 33-0 1926 41-0 1327 1928 Iowa, 1929 'Iowa, 1931 38-0 7-6 9-7 34-0 1932 21-6 1933 1934 19-7 48-12 1 3-fi 1935 1936 52-0 1937 13S 1939 Iowa, 1940 28-0 13-9 34-6 1941 34-1 1942 1943 1944 Minn. 1945 'Iowa, 1946 27-7 33-14 4B-0 20-19 16-6 At Iowa City. Sixth and Grand Starting Monday, November 17th IRENE MILES PIANIST AND SOIXHST From New York City Tick Tock Club, Boston.

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'til 2:30 A. M. NOW OPKN SUNDAY AT NOON Complete Dinners BAKED CHICKEN $1.25 PRIME RIBS $1.50 Ait 3 kicked off it. But in '39 the Hawks finished in second place in the Western conference. Not lnce the day of Howard ones had an Iowa team enoyed such prestige, and one of its members, Nile Kinnick, joined the Hawkeye football immortal a an all-American.

Anderson was born in Oska-loosa, Nov. 13, 1900, and was graduated from. Mason City, High in 1918. He played end on Rockne's Notts Dame tennis from J918 through 1921, having four years of "EmJven now I play just as hard as they do." First Time. It was the first time in history a girl played on a nigh sehoo football team in Texas and it attracted wide attention.

Frankie's fan mail this week had looked like a movie star's. The girl asked for a chance after Coach Truman Johnson jokingly dared her with "I think I'll sign you up-for the team," when he found Frankie tackling the team members and putting ice down their backs. "Be CarefuL" The coach had yelled to her to "ba careful of my boys," but Frankie didn't stop. The next afternoon (this was two weeks ago) Frankie went to Johnson and asked for a uniform. "I told her I didn't have one," Johnson said, "but that when a spare one turned up I would let her have it.

She kept coming back and I realized this girl really wanted to play. So now she's playing and she's not bad at all." lMH trate the Thundering Herd from the Northland. 7-7 Deadlock. Northwestern wm able to utem off the inspired rush of Iowa's badly banged-up troop in the in terval, but it failed to tarnish the luster of the Ironmen, despite a 7-7 tie. Kinnick was named on an even dozen all-America teams and won both the Heisman and Maxwell trophies.

'Anderson was named Coach of the Year by the New York Herald Tribune and the following fall was named head coach of the College All-Stars. Another fcpt-i-ttteiilttr victory over Notre Dame the following year was partly eclipsed by a 14-6 beating by Nebraska in the windup of the season. The celebrated sophomore stars of 1939. Mike Enieh. Green and Al Couppee, slowed almont to a Nile Kinnick.

AU-American Under Eddie. walk in 1941. There were whispers of dissension among the players. Whatever it was, Iowa beat only Indiana and Illinois, bowing to Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue, Minnesota a 34-13 shellacking and Nebraska. No More Ironmen.

With the last remnants of the Ironmen gone and selective serv ice grabbing off players left and right, Anderson's 1942 team was only so-so. But like his teams of the past, the Hawks that year had one good upset in them and they sprang It on mighty Wisconsin, 6-0. It a the Badgers' only. loss and kept them from the national championship. The war turned Anderson from football to the army in February 1943 with the rank of a major.

Much of his time was spent on BACKGROUND Continued on Page Ten. Iowa's Record Under Eddie 17 U- I i Fox Hands La Motta His First K.O. By tiayle Talbot. NEW YORK, N. Y.

CP) Billy Fox of Philadelphia knocked out Jake La Motta of New York City in 2 minutes, 26 seconds of the fourth round at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Referee Frank Fullam stopped the one-sided bout to save the Bronx battler further punishment. La Motta, never before stopped in his rugged career, was no match for the hard-hitting Philadelphia Negro. Won't (io Down. For a full minute before Fullam topped it, L.

Motta had been reeling from corner to corner and taking terrible punishment. His knees had sagged repeatedly, but he refused to go down. Well before the end came, the crowd of 18,310 was yelling to Fullam to draw the curtain. The knockout was the fiftieth scored by Fox in 51 fights. The 22-year-old winner weighed 173 to La Motta's 167.

Fox entered the ring a l-to-3 favorite, the odds having taken drastic shift in his favor only a few hours before fight time. Bets Are Hedged. La Motta's followers obviously felt that the hard rock from the Bronx was several pounds over his best fighting weight, and many of them hedged their bets. It was Fox's fight from the start. La Motta, several inches smaller than his rival, could do little more than bore in with swinging shots to the body, which caused Fox little or no distress.

The sensational star from Philadelphia coolly measured his man with punishing left jab and followed these with an occasional right that jarred La Motta to his heels. As early as the second round Jake reeled from a right to the chops, and in the third he nearly capsized from a similar punch. It was clear then that the rugged fighter who never had been knocked off his feet was in for bad beating. Boom Lowered in Fourth. Jake got it in the fourth.

The round was in its first stages when Fox clipped La Motta with a left that shook him and sent him sagging against the ropes in a neutral corner. Fox poured punches into Jake's body and when La Motta bent over, planted a dozen clean shoti to the head and jaw. Three times the referee pushed between the pair and pried them apart before he finally decided Jake had absorbed enough punishment for six men. NO GAMBLING, SAYS NEVADA RENO, NEV. (JF) The University of Nevada made public Friday a letter to the Pacific Coast conference athletic commissioner denying published reports that gamblers had exerted pressure on the Nevada football team and that some players were ineligible.

It denied statements published by Sports Editor Bud Spencer of the San Francisco News, purportedly quoting Football Coach Jim Aiken of Oregon. In San Jose, Coach Aiken denied he had ever said or intimated that gambling interests ever affected the Nevada football team or its player. Aiken, a former Nevada coach, said he had not seen the story attributed to him, but apparently he had been "misquoted and misinterpreted." competition since freshmen were eligible in 1918. Captained Irish. He captained Notre Dnm In 1921, the year Iowa's team of Duke Slater, Aubrey Devine and others whipped the Irish, 10-7, in the first football meeting of the two schools.

Year later, Anderson was responsible for two other blots on the Irish record -in guiding the Hawks to an astounding 7-6 upset victory in 1939 and a 7-0 triumph the following year. Ruined. Notre Dame. Both setbacks erased national championship hopes of Notre Dame and added considerable prestige to Anderson's record. However, the South Bend Ramblers squared the account with Anderson by beating his Hawks last year, 41-6, and this year, 21-0.

After winning six, losing one and tying Northwestern in his Western conference baptismal year, Anderson broke even with a 4-4 record in 1940, managed only a 3-5 mark in 1941 but came back with a 6-4 record in 1942 before entering military service. Last year hi Hawks won five and lost four. They captured three conference engagements. Anderson started his coaching career at Columbia college, now Loras, of Dubuque, la. His Du-hawks were unbeaten in 1922 through 1924.

Anderson moved on to DePaul of Chicago, where he coached from 1925 through 1931. Then he went to Holy Cross, where his Crusaders won 87 per cent of their games, finishing unbeaten in 1935 and 1937. Tubbs Quit. His success there attracted the attention of disgruntled Iowa alumni in 1938, and when Iri Tubbs resigned, the youthful Holy Cross mentor was hailed as the Moses to lead Iowa out of the football wilderness. New to the Hawkeye gridiron scene, except for his prep achievements at Mason City, the doctor set his sights on Notre Dame.

Assembling a group of fiery sophomores around Kinnick, Anderson watched his crew swamp South Dakota, 41-0, then sprawl before Michigan's mighty Tom Harmon and 27-7. It looked like the same old song for Iowa: Onward but where? But the following Saturday, the Ironmen outscored Indiana, 32-29, in one of the wildest contests in Iowa's history. 'Can't Be From then on Anderson sold his boys on the idea they were unbeatable. However, the thin band of Ironmen soon was beset by casualties. But down crashed Wisconsin and Purdue in order.

Then came Notre Dame, flaunting a brilliant record. The Irish were completely outfoxed. A break found Iowa knocking at the Irish goal in the second half, with Notre Dame leading, 6-0. Kinnick, at that moment switched halfback slots with Buzz Dean, the Atlantic, midget who decoyed the entire Notre Dame on a crucial smash at the goal. Then Kinnick, the former Adel, blond, sprinted through an astounding opening in the Irish forward wall for a touchdown.

Kinnick's drop kick sent Notre Dame home a 7-6 loser. That was Anderson's most-cherished triumph. It pleased him so much that he promised his boys he'd show 'era how to beat Minnesota the following week. And beat Minnesot they did, 13-9. It wasn't until late in the game that Bill Green of Newton, ja snatched Kinnick's pass to.

frus Miss Frankie Groves. Cleat Marks on Chin and Forehead. Anderson relinquished his post despite a contract that extended through the 1950 season. Dr, Anderson'" salary for 1946 was $12,500.04, third highest on the state board of education payroll. Anderson said early this morning: that he had attempted to submit his resignation Friday afternoon but failed when he learned that Hancher was in Des Moines.

He contacted Hancher early Friday evening. Hancher called two conferences MASTERMIND Eddie Anderson coached Iowa to victories over Notre Dame two years running 1939 and 1940. A native Iowan, he also coached at Loras, then Columbia college. In Dubuque. GUNS NEW and USED Work a guaranteed dun Craft 308 9th St.

De Moinet 4 I vi i a 1 rn. a 16-Year-Old Girl Makes Football History, But Prep Mates Lose. By William C. Bajnard. STINNETT, TEX.

(P) Frankie Groves, Stinnett High school's pretty, little linewoman, made football history here Friday night getting into eight plays as her team lost to Groom, 14-6. With her brown hair curling out from her headgear, the blue-eyed, diminutive 16-year-old girl athletic got knocked down only once and astonished spectators on her last play by somehow bowling over two opposing linemen. All this, fans, without ever smearing her lipstick or without losing her enthusiasm for the game. "It was great fun," she said as the gun Rounded on Stinnett's final game. "I'll be out there with the team again next year." "I'm not hurt a bit, just got my face mashed in the mud is all." The game was played under clear skies in freezing weather.

Frankie displayed some red cleat marks on her chin and forehead. "I got 'em piling on In tackles," she grinned. "You never know when you'll find a foot in your face." "I thought the boys might go easy on me when we started scrimmaging, but they didn't, so 1 1939 11MO. 41 South Dakota 4ft Dakota 1 ....27 A Indiana 10 32 Indiana 29 30 Wlrnln ...12 19 Wironln ...1.1 A Turdue 21 4 Piirdan 7 Nr Dame 7 N'rthweMrn 7 18 llllnola 7 7 NnfTo Dame fi Minnesota ...34 13 Minnesota 9 fi Nebraska 14 130 91 125 9fJ 1941. 1943.

23 Drake 8 26 Washington Mir hi san fi Mo. 7 A Wisconsin 23 27 Nebraska fi Purdue 7 fireat Lakes 13 Indiana 7 NTS 25 31 Illinois 33 camp Grant lfi 13 Minnesota 34 7 Illinois 12 13 Nebraska 14 14 Indiana 13 13 Pnrdne 7 91 99 fi Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 27 14 Michigan 28 147 135 1947. 1946. 59 N. Dak.

St. 0 39 N. Dak. St. 7 1 23 lfi Purdue 1'! Illinois 35 7 Mirhlican 14 27 Indiana 14 21 Nebraska 7 13 Ohio Stale 21 13 Indiana A Notre Dame 21 Notre Dame 41 Pnrdne 21 Illinois 7 14 Wisconsin 4 21 Wisconsin 7 Minnesota lfi 132 172 129 92 Totals: Won 2fi.

Inst 23. Med 2. Points, Iowa 754; opponents, 681..