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When Coach Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan went to St. Mary's in 1921, there were 60 students in an old brick plant in Oakland, Calif. Now St. Mary's has 750 students, a $2,000,000 campus in Moraga Valley. Coach Madigan is largely responsible for the change. In 1921, St. Mary's played Stanford with 16 men on the squad, made 10 points to Stanford's 14. In 1926 and 1929 St. Mary's had undefeated teams. Coach Madigan was a Notre Dame guard under Knute Rockne and Rockne's predecessor, George Harper. He curses, roars at jokes with his players in a booming voice. Before games he delivers lavish orations. Coach Madigan's quotations from Robert Louis Stevenson's Leaves of Gold (gold is St. Mary's color) so inspired his players against Fordham in 1930 that the team, 12 points behind, made three touchdowns in the second half, won 20-12. Last week, Coach Madigan failed to repeat his Leaves of Gold speech. St. Mary's got no touchdowns. During games he walks rapidly up & down the sidelines, pulls his hat over his ears, spits on his hands. St. Mary's record since 1925: won 52, lost 11. tied 3.
Herbert Orrin Crisler, first non-graduate coach in Princeton history, was hired this year from Minnesota for $8,000 a year. So far he has earned it by building up, from the remnants of a team that won only one game last season, to one that last fortnight held Michigan 14-to-7 and last week smothered Lehigh, 53 to 0. Affable and optimistic. Coach Crisler does not object to his nickname "Fritz." He learned his football at Chicago where he was a crack end in 1920 and 1921. Pleased by the success of Coach Crisler, Princetonians were recently grieved to learn that grizzled little Keene Fitzpatrick, head track coach since 1910, football kicking coach and chief Princeton trainer for all sports, plans to retire at the end of this season.
At Minnesota, Coach Crisler was replaced this year by Bernard William ("Bernie") Bierman, who started coaching at Butte, Montana, High School in 1920, and worked up gradually till he turned out two Tulane teams that won Southern Conference Championships in 1930 and 1931. A Bierman legend: he has never shed a tear, shouted, raged or dropped a player from his squad. During the half, he reads to his squad from a small sheet of paper on which he has noted their mistakes. He played at Minnesota in 1916; he uses the Minnesota shift, invented by Dr. Henry Williams, with guards moving in an unbalanced line. His salary is now $7,500. His record, in four years at Tulane: won 35, lost 9. tied 2.