In the good old days, when Carnegie Tech made no bones about buying football talent, Halfback Wild Bill Donohoe was a pigskin hero. One unforgettable Saturday in 1926, after he and his teammates whittled Notre Dame down to size (19-0), Wild Bill was toasted far into the welkinrung night. But, alas for heroes, the same Wild Bill Donohoe, on the same campus, was now the goat.
After his playing days were over, Wild Bill had become a coach; two years ago, he came back to his alma mater. By last week he had made a perfect record—19 uninterrupted defeats. Every...
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