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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4. 1950
Sullivan Trophy To Dick Button
New York, Jan. 4—(U.P.) The Amateur Athletic union awarded its most coveted prize to a winter-sports athlete for the first time today when it named Dick Button, 19-year-old figure skating champion from Englewood, N.J., winner of the 1949 James E. Sullivan Memorial trophy.
Button, a handsome, personable Harvard sophomore who holds every major figure skating crown for which he is eligible, received 134 first place and the 428 third place in the annual A.A.U. poll of leading sports figures.
On the basis of five points for each first place vote received, three for each second and one for each third, Button had 947 out of a possible 2.130 points.
The Sullivan award is made annually to "the amateur athlete who, by performance, example and good influence did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year."
Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia, who holds two breast stroke records and is regarded as the world's foremost all-around swimmer, was second to Button with 91 first place votes, 72 seconds and 74 thirds for a total of 745 points. Verdeur was third in the 1948 poll.
Of the 19 previous awards, 11 were won by trackmen, two each by football players, golfers and rowers, and one each by swimmers and tennis players. Last year's winner was Bob Mathias of Tulare, Calif., 1949 Olympic decathlon champion.
Third in the balloting was Jim Fuchs of Chicago, the Yale shotputter who set a new world record of 58, 8 27/64 inches at Oslo last summer, with 66 firsts, 70 seconds and 73 thirds for a total of 613 points.
One Shot Kills Two Men
Aosot, Wash., (U,P)—A single bullet killed two hunters during the elk season here. William R. Nolan and William E. Hamilton were struck while standing back to back. James Jones told authorities he shot at what he thought was an elk.
'Coach Of Year Starts Out As 'Coach Of The Week'
New York Jan. 4—(U.P.)He wound up one decade as coach of the year and starts out a brand new one as coach of the week.
He is Charles (Bud) Wilkinson, the gridiron genius who has directed Oklahoma's Sooners to 21 straight victories—the United Press bowl coach for that devastating 35 to 0 triumph over Louisiana State in New Orleans.
It was the second straight Sugar bowl victory for this 34-year-old "swell guy" who has made a career out of being the best in anything that he tackles.
Wilkinson was selected by 382 fellow coaches as their man of the year in the annual poll conducted by the New York World-Telegram and Associated Scripps-Howard newspapers. And he vindicated them well for their support in the victory his boys turned in against an L.S.U. team that was supposed to be one of the nation's strongest as the 1949 season ended.
And typically, he gave all the credit to his players.
"I knew they would not be beaten," he said. "Those boys not only are great football players, but they are swell people who everyone ought to know."
When he received the coach of the year award he had to admit that he hadn't been quite so confident at the start of the tough 1949 campaign.
"I didn't think they would go through like they did." he said. "Even though everybody else was predicting so much for us. I just think the kids were inspired by the challenge to their ability."
Wilkinson, who got his football schooling from one of the old masters, Bernie Bierman at Minnesota, was both guard and quarterback on the varsity from which he was graduated in 1937. Schooled in Bierman's violent single wing offense, Wilkinson spent 10 years in assistant coaching jobs and finally developed his own which is a kind of flair that sets him apart. The split T. Oklahoma publicity director Harold Keith describes it as a "split T to which has been grafted a lot of single wing offshores."
A coaching colleague, Denny My
ers of Boston College, whose team was crushed 46 to 0 by the Okies has a more emphatic description of it.
But he added, "There's lots to consider in something like this—salary, assistants, the schedule, and material. You know, Navy plays the roughest schedule of any team in the country. I'm not afraid of that, you understand, but I want to talk things over."
"It is just plain murder," he said. "Wilkinson's split T works more effectively than any other football offense I have ever seen."
NavyReadyToPick Successor To Sauer
Annapolis, Md., Jan. 4—U.P.) The signing of Eddie Erdelatz as Navy's new head football coach was expected today when he meets with the Navy Athletic association's executive committee.
But before the former Navy end coach signs on the dotted line, he wants to iron out several points with academy officials—and one of those points is the rugged schedule that has meant disaster for Navy teams of recent years.
"I certainly would like to take it and I will if we can get together on everything," Erdelatz said in acknowledging that he was offered the Navy job.
Erdelatz, who has been an assistant coach of the professional San Francisco Forty-Niners for the past two seasons, flew from the West Coast to huddle with the academy officials.
The Navy authorities said that
Erdelatz would be given first crack
Women's Intramural Basketball Schedule
East Court
p.m. Lockey t. I.W.W.
p.m. Jayettes t. Kappa Kappa
p.m. Jayettes t. Kappa Kappa
9 p.m. Theta Phi Alpha v. A.D.
Pi.
7 p.m. A.O.Pi v, Gamma Phi Beta.
8 p.m. Harmon w, Walkins.
9 p.m. Corbin Hawks v. Delta Gamma.
at the job. If an agreement can be reached, and academy superintendent Rear Adm. James J. Holloway, Jr., approves, he will be signed immediately.
The Navy vacancy was created when Head Coach George Sauer resigned last week because the academy refused to renew the contracts of two of his assistants, Bob Ingalls and Vic Bradford.
Tuesday's College Basketball Results
City College of New York 54 St.
John's 52.
Duquese 67, Arizona State 63.
Snowy Mountain
South:
1-58 Maryland 46.
North Carolina State 69, San Francisco 54.
Southwest:
Oklahoma City 48, Tulsa 39.
Colorado State 71, Ft. Warren 29.
Midwest:
Kansas State 70, Utah State 45.
Cincinnati 61, Western Reserve 35.
Southern Illinois 68, Arkansas State 32.
Baker 54, Ottawa 51.
Baker 54, Ottawa 51.
Dayton 68, Marshall 41.
West:
Columbia 46, Oregon 35.
Eastern New Mexico 52, New Mexico A. & M. 45.
Washington State 42, Oregon State 38.
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