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Courier News, Blytheville, October 22,1973 --Poge Three--John Barnhill Dies at Fayetteville Israel Gets New Antitank Weapons A third antitank weapon flown to Israel is the Maverick, a television-guided missile which fighter pilots can aim at armored vehicles and field fortifications. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) Former athletic director John Barnhill, the architect of the University of Arkansas athletic program for more than two decades, died Sunday. He was 70. A friend of Barnhill said he died of heart failure at a Fa- yelleville hospital.

Barnhill suffered from multiple sclerosis for a number of years and lost the use of his right-side faculties in the early 1950s. But he remained active until he entered the hospital two weeks ago, deferring the use of a cane and keeping daily hours at his office. Barnhill had been named to both the Tennessee and Arkansas Halls of Fame. In 1972, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the National Association of Directors of Athletics. UA football coach Frank Broyles will be among Barnhill's pallbearers when Barnhill is buried at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday at the Fairview Cemetery here. "His life was the Razorback football team," Broyles said of Barnhill Sunday. "He was the most unselfish man I've ever known, and we'll miss him very much." Broyles said Barnhill had wanted to be in the background. "He would say, 'Frank, just do the best you can. That's all you can One time he told me last fall, he said, 'Frank, you're working like the devil to try to win a football game, and I'm working like the rlevil just to stay alive.

They're both difficult." Broyles said that after World War II, "Barney was the hottest coaching item in America." Broyles said Barnhill told 15 Year Ago In Blytheville Benny Gill, student at Baylor University, spent the weekend visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hardin, at Dell. Jan Rayde who is stationed at Fort Chaffee, spent the weekend here with Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Rayder. Deborah Gilbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. A. Gilbert, him that jobs at Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas were open and that he probably could have his choice. "The only one he was interested in was Arkansas," Broyles said. "He had envisioned what Arkansas could become." One of the reasons Broyles came to Arkansas in 1958 was because of his "great respect and admiration" for Barnhill, Broyles said Sunday.

Dr. David Mullins, UA president, said of Barnhill: "The excellence of the university's athletic program in recent years is a monument to his wisdom and capable leadership in developing this program. He has won an enduring place in the annals of the university." As a player and as a coach, Barnhill was a product of the Gen. Bob Neyland era of Tennessee football power. Barnhill came to the UA in the dual capacity of athletic director and head football coach in December '945, following four seasons as head coach at Tennessee whilt Neyland was in World War II Army service.

At Arkansas, Barnhill installed the Tennessee single wing and began trying to build a winning program in a state that historically saw its native sons go elsewhere to find football stardom Ken Kavanaugh to LSU, Paul Bryant and Don Hutson to Alabama, for example. His first major recruiting triumph came quickly the enrollment of Clyde Scott, an Arkansan stepping out of successful seasons at Navy. BarnhiU's conservative battering-ram style of football, emphasizing a rugged defense, produced a Southwest Conference cochampionship the first year. Barnhill coached the Razorbacks for four seasons, giving way to the T-formalion in his final season, a 5-5 year in 1949, and then bowed to pressure for a new face at the helm and a flashier offense. That was in the days when the revered Scott had moved on to the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Eagles were playing a preseason game at Little Rock each year.

From the ranks of the nessee. Jack Mitchell followed Wyatt, coaching for the Razorbacks for three years before Broyles ushered in the golden age of Arkansas football in 1958 the beginning of fruition for Barnhill's dream. For Barnhill, (he dream was a long time in the making. But he saw the possibilities when he was standing in for Neyland at Tennessee during the war. As he recalled it: "The general was coming back from the war, and I knew Tennessee didn't need two head coaches, and I didn't want to quit or go back to being an assistant.

"So 1 looked around, and I saw five vacancies in the South. I think I could have had any of the five jobs. I made Arkansas my first choice. "First, when I was coaching at Tennessee, we kept noticing outstanding athletes from Arkansas playing for Alabama, Vanderbilt and Georgia. I kept thinking that if one team all of them, it would be pretty good.

"And then I noticed that Arkansas was pretty unique, one state with just one team trying to play major football. If you could get everybody pulling together, you ought to accomplish something." A native of Savannah, Barnhill picked up nine letters at Tennessee. He played running guard on offense, middle guard on defense. Following graduation, he coached three years of high school football at Bristol, Tenn. He returned to Tennessee as a member of Neyland's staff in 1931 and took over as head coach in 1941 when Neyland entered active Army service.

His Tennessee teams compiled a 355-2 record and played in the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. His lifetime coaching mark was 54-22-5. Since 1970, Barnhill had been on emeritus status with the UA. In addition to Broyles, pall- By KREI) S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S.

antitank missile, sent to Israeli forces for the first time, is proving highly effective in the current Middle East fighting, Pentagon sources report. Sources said the TOW missile is among a variety of new U.S. weapons which have been rushed to Israel since the latest Arab-Israeli war broke out on Oct. 6. Some of these weapons, including the TOW, were battlefield-tested in Vietnam.

The Israeli army went into this new war without any special antitank weapons, U.S. military sources said. Cannon on Israeli tanks had destroyed Egypt's Soviet-made armor easily during the 1967 war and Israeli generals apparently felt they could do without new types of antitank weapons. rael on an emergency basis, are faring against Soviet-built equipment in desert-type war. Keports to the Pentagon speak of the TOW as being "very effective." The missile's But heavy tank losses 1 name is an acronym for "tube- fered by the Israeli army in the launched, optically tracked, early stages of the new war with Egypt and Syria reportedly changed Ihe minds of Israeli commanders.

Many Israel lanks reportedly were knocked out by Arab soldiers firing two kinds of Soviet- supplied a i a missiles called Sagger and Snapper. U.S. military experts are interested in how the newer American weapons, flown to Is- wire-guided missile." The TOW is a relatively simple, lightweight weapon which can be fired from a tripod, a jeep, an armored personnel carrier, or a helicopter. Also sent to Israel was the LAW, an infantryman's light antitank rocket which scored well against North Vietnamese armor when fired by South Vietnamese soldiers last year. Public Notice NOTICE OF Cl VI), SEKVICE EXAMINATION The Blytheville Board of Civil Service Commissioners of Hie Police and Fire Departments hereby give you notice that an examination (or the position of Patrolman for the Blytheville Police Department will be held at 7:00 p.m.

in Ihe Municipal Court Ilpom of the City Hall of Rlyllieville, Arkansas on Ihe Gth day of November, 1973. Application forms for the a i a i and-or employment may he obtained at tlic Police Administrative Office in (lie Blytheville City Hall, and such must be completed and submitted at the Police Administrative Office at least 10 days prior to the date set for the examination. We are an equal opportunity employer. R. L.

Wade Secretary, Blytheville Board of Civil Service Commissioners Beamed Energy Someday in the next century solar energy may be captured by space satellite. One plan envisions huge collecting panels, each as much as 25 square miles in area, covered i the same kind of solar cells already used by many spacecraft to change sunlight to electric power. The energy would be beamed to earth by microwave. DISCOUNT WITH A DIFFERENCE Eagles, Barnhill found his suc- celebrated her seventh birthday, as hea oach a vctera Saturday with a party and trainer named 'OUwDoug as. guests at her home.

.,1 Yarbro PTA honoredv.PTA); mothers and faculty with a tea Friday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Elwood Deen. Easy-To-Sew a to bearers will be George Cole, retired UA athletic director; Glen Rose, longtime UA basketball coach and football coach in 1944 and 1945; Carter Short, UA registrar; Dr. Coy Kaylor, an Arkansas team physician; and Tom Holt, director of building and grounds for Ihe UA Athletic Department. Holt also had driven Barnhill work for the past several The Douglas era something less than a happy one -nine victories in three years -and Barnhill turned back to the place of his football beginnings, Tennessee, and chose Bowden Wyatt as head coach.

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