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University Daily Kansen
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1962
Navy's Hardin Is Coach of the Week
Philadelphia — (UPI) — The red hair, sopping wet after a plunge in the showers, is receding. The eyes, which can dig in with fierce intensity, were gay from a merry grin.
The shower was merely warm, in contrast to the hot water the happy recipient of the victory bath was in during the hurried weeks before the big day.
The dunking was that given to Wayne Hardin, now the toast of the fleet, the first coach in Naval Academy history to whip Army four times in a row — and the United Press International "Coach of the Week."
Navy's 34-14 victory over Army before the elite audience which included President Kennedy this past Saturday made the Middie season a rousing success in the face of a soo 5-5 record. A loss to Army would have meant Navy's first losing season since 1951.
It was unofficial from unofficial sources—The Navy 'round-the-horn method of saying all's not well in the upper echelons — that victory would be the long saver for Hardin.
Hardin, an assistant coach at the Academy from 1955 — first as backfield defensive coach and then as backfield offensive coach — before his surprise succession of Eddie Erdeltz in 1959, was the Middie in the middle at game time.
The kids he coached probably thought it, Team captain Steve Hoy made an improptu speech to the squad, asking it to win the game
"for the conch. He's the greatest, and we got to bail him out."
And when it was over and Academy football history was made, Hardin made the admission, "There's been a lot of pressure on me all season. The kids really came through for me."
He gave the team the credit, Staubach for his individual brilliance, for the youngster's calling of 90 per cent of the plays. He acknowledged he sent in the quick kick play which set the stage for West Point's loss. But all of his credits were for the kids who had tabbed him "the greatest."
"We had no Chinese Bandits," he said reflectively. "We just had a bunch of football players — kids who came to play football."
And so, Hardin's goal of "four-
for-four" came to pass. His new
goal is "five-for-five" — next year.
A good guess is he'll be around to
try, if he so desires.
P-T-P Sets Up Letter Trade
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) People are interested in people. More than 80,000 letters from people abroad interested in contacting Americans have been received by People-to-People headquarters here since the program's reorganization last December.
Groups of volunteers summoned by newspaper, radio and television media are working full time matching the overseas requests for new friends.
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Fraternity Teams to Open Intramural Basketball Season
The 1962-63 intramural basketball season opens today as all eight Fraternity "A" Division I teams see action in first-round play.
The defending "A" Hill Champion Beta Theta Pi, which has won top honors for the last four consecutive intramural basketball seasons, squares off in today's first contest with Tau Kappa Epsilon at 4:15 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Kappa Theta will play at 5.15. Kappa Sigma and Sigma Nu will tangle at 6.15, and Sigma Phil Epsilon and Sigma Chi meet at 7.15.
ALL FRATERNITY "A" contests in both Division I and Division II, will be played in Robinson Annex. Six of the seven teams in Fraternity "A" Division II will see opening-round action tomorrow.
Delta Chi and Phi Delta Theta will play at 4:15 p.m. Delta Tau
Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha meet at 5:15, and Delta Upsilon and Phi Gamma Delta will tangle at 6:15
Alpha Tau Omega, the seventh team in Division II, drew a bye in first-round play.
INDEPENDENT "A" action in Divisions I and II also begins tomorrow. The schedule follows:
Division I — Phi Epsilon Kappa vs. HIDK, 4:15 p.m.; Trumps vs. Templin, 5:15, and JRP Stars vs. Crones, 7:15.
Division II — NROTC vs. Independent at 6:15 p.m., and Westernes vs. JRP Guzzlers at 7:15 p.m.
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Hawks Kept Close to Lakers by Pettit
Bob Fettit, one of the best shots in the West, is keeping the St. Louis Hawks within pop-gun range of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Held scoreless in the opening period, Pettit scored 11 of his 21 points in the final quarter — including the game winning basket — as the Hawks downed the Chicago Zephys, 104-102, last night at Chicago.
The victory left the Hawks one game back of the Lakers in the Western Division of the National Basketball Association.
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