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Mather's Exit Not Void Of Grace
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A husky, lean-faced man of 41 begins the unpleasant chore of vacating his office for a successor this week, but for Charles V. (Chuck) Mather the departure will not be void of grace.
After four turmilo-filled years in college football as Kansas University coach, Mather's record reads 11-26-2. Under muffled, but determined, alumni pressures, he and five assistants resigned at midseason, admitting "we cannot solve Kansas' football problems."
Mather has unresolved future plans. No coach-seeking colleges are beating a path to his doorstep.
Yet, the former Massillon, Ohio resident will exit as a winner. The season's last four Saturdays Mather's
Fraternity A champions, Phi Delta Theta edged Independent A champs Jim Beam 6-0 last Monday to win the 1957 intramural football hill championship.
In the A's championship game, the lone scorer was Bruce Lewellyn who took the ball over on a pass play.
Jim Beam Edged, 6-0
At the same time, in Fraternity B championship game, Beta Theta Pi soundly defeated Phi Gamma Delta 37-0 to take that crown.
The big scorer for the Betas in their game was Dudley McElvain who scored 24 points. Other scorers for the Beta squad included Chuck Hotchkiss and Cecil Coleman who each accounted for a touchdown and Frank Ise who scored one extra point.
Volleyball Team Wins Second
The KU volleyball team finished in second play behind the Wichita YMCA in the second annual Jayaawk Volleyball tournament Saturday in Robinson Gymnasium.
The Wichita team won 12 games and lost one. The loss was to KU, 14-12, in an overtime. The KU team had an 8-5 lost record, losing four times to Wichita and one to Topeka.
IM Basketball Under Way Dec. 9
Dawkins Named Army Captain
Intramural basketball competition will begin Dec. 9 with play in A, B, and C leagues for fraternities and independent dormitories. The deadline date for all basketball entries is Thursday at 4 p.m.
WEST POINT, N.Y.—(UP) -Halfback Pete Dawkins of Royal Oak, Mich., has been elected captain of Army's 1958 football team. He is the first halfback to hold the honor since Glenn Davis shared the team captaincy with Doc Blanchard in 1946.
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team scored victories, bearing out his conviction it was a good squad despite injuries and flu sieges.
Those victories reflected 50-odd athletes' esteem for an embattled leader for whom they could easily have quit four weeks ago.
Shortly after Mother's Oct. 31 resignation, there was widespread speculation on how the team would react. Some observers predicted certain defeat in the remaining games.
However, the Kansans won all four contests, three of them after gallant uphill struggle. Two victories came with less than a minute to play. Combined, they gave Kansas its highest Big Eight Conference finish in a decade, second only to Oklahoma. They also caused some doubts in the minds of those previously most opposed to Mather.
The Hopedale, Ohio native was attacked from many sides for his heavy recruiting in Ohio and other eastern areas, his method of rating players through an IBM system, and for hiring allegedly weak assistants.
Most of his aides were associated with him at Washington High School
such that many Massillon fans rated him superior to the illustrious Paul Brown who also coached at Washington several years earlier.
in Massillon where his teams won six straight Ohio prep titles. His over-all 57-3-0 record there was
CHUCK MATHER
Several Massillon friends predict Mather will remain in football. One long-time friend says Mather is a man of "great pride. Even though he's going out in relative style after those four victories in a row, I don't think he'll want to end things this way. It's still a little early for the coaching jobs to be opening up, but I'd bet he'll be back in football by fall."
Mather is not so sure. He said he is "seeking something stable, something football seldom offers. It's a heck of a thing when your job hinges on the performance of some 19-year-old kid who can somehow carry a football."
Mather said he was "considering" an offer to enter private business with former Minnesota coach, Wes Fesler. "You can just say I'm undecided however. I've always made my living coaching and I love it. I do know that I won't be interested in coaching a small college team or in high school again."
As he talked, Mather glanced occasionally at a sign above his desk. The sign read:
"A sure way to failure is to compromise on principles. Have the courage to face your faults."
It was obvious Mather believed he had accomplished this. Apparent also was that he would leave Kansas soon with perhaps a few unpleasant memories, several nice ones, and no apologies.
United Press Rates Ohio State Tops
NEW YORK—(UP) —The final
United Press college football ratings
(with first-place votes and won-lost
records in parentheses):
Team Pts.
1. Ohio State (14) (8-1) 307
2. Auburn (11) (10-0) 290
3. Michigan State (8) (8-1) 283
4. Oklahoma (9-1) 195
5. Iowa (7-1-1) 192
6. Navy (8-1-1) 177
7. Rice (7-3) 117
8. Mississippi (8-1-1) 81
9. Notre Dame (6-3) 60
10. Texas A&M (8-2) 58
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