Sport: Football, Oct. 21, 1935

Sad by temperament, few football coaches have developed the technique of taciturn uncertainty to the point reached by Dana X. Bible of the University of Nebraska. President of the American Football Coaches' Association, athletic director at Nebraska, with a lifetime record of 124 games won, 30 lost, 12 tied and a salary of at least $10,000 a year. Coach Bible's career has been a model of its kind. It seems to give him little satisfaction. A pot-bellied little man, whose brown, bald, elliptical head has developed an unmistakable resemblance to a football, he...

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