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Navy Coach Picks and Material in Postwar Football
The piece weighs Navy’s coaching choice against talent and modern play. It argues Admiral Holloway would defer to capable athletics directors like Captain Hamilton, and suggests prime candidates such as Phelan or Tatum, while stressing material and pace of modern football influence decisions more than coaching pedigree.
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James M. Holloway Jr
U. S.S. Naval Academy
Navy
Admiral Holloway
West Point
Annapolis
Tom Hamilton
Hamilton
Fritz Crisler
Lou Little
Frank Leahy
Leahy
Notre Dame
Crisler
Michigan
Little
Columbia
Red Blair
Army
Matty Bell
S.M.U
Jimmy Phelan
St. Mary’s
Blair Cherry
Texas
Jim Tatum
Maryland
Wallace Wade
Duke
Paul Bryant
Kentucky
Red Sanders
Vanderbilt
Bobby Dodd
Georgia Tech
Wally Bulis
Georgia
Bernie Bierman
Minnesota
Blaik
Phelan
Tatum
Midwest
Paul Brown
Steve Owen
Sutherland
Greasy Neale
Buck Shaw
West Coast
Ilinois
Illinois
Wolverines
Chappuis
Weisenburger
Verges
Mann
Ford
Piitula
Purdue