News Scrapbook 1958-1961

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n, ,illmun retr<>H led to hi. and brooded until most -of alhletl' had depa1·ted. Then spouse for c mrort and encouragement, hut wn thwart cl in this ambi- tion be ·au he didn't have a dun•. Th unhappy 1•oach wandered bo 1t he 'oliseum, . ea1Thlng for a friend with a dime to spare. Fin lly, h encountered a man he \ 1gud) reeogni;:en as a membl•r of the Ram ' !an duh. Gillman forel'd a mile and of- r nd to hake hand . " r n't vou 'id Gillnmn ?" the fan a ked. ·cool) " ,. , ·ir '' "The fellow who coa1,;he~ the he cl ·id d to phoue hi cav hi

Whal pas. es fo1· enthusia. m with probably be interpreted a pe . imism other public figures. Gillman doesn't exeite easily ot' unburden himi-elf of ra:-h statements. He'i-: a ·ool. calculating citizen id Gillman would in a lot of

who keeps a tight rein on his emotion. e\'en in times of stress. He was the calmest man in the room when the Los Angeles Ram: fil·ed him a. head coach last Decembe1·. And he hasn't stepped out of character in hi new role with the Los Angele Charger., a football team that nuHered from the billfold of young Barron Hilton. Gillman i. in('\ined io leave the superlati\·es and platitudes to Ililton and that celebrated orator. Ir. Frank Leahv. As the l.'Oad1, he'.- concerned· with u ·h grim realitie. a. rounding •up enough animals to fill out of a new team in an pr te,iMI tha1 our football ,~ill the tab

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J<'OOTBALI, T/\1,K-Sid Glllman, l!.'!1, coad1 of Los Angeli's 01argers of nl'W AmPrican Football League, is in happy framP of mind as he talk~ foot- hall with Paul Platz, University or San Diego grid ('Oach, al last night's USD Boostl'rl'i Club banquet in I ,ark , Cafeteria on ,school campus. SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE 17?1, ~/J.(, S .d c· o .3 ~r;J,(; 1 1tes an ers In Grid Price War By PA I,COUR \1 n d e r contr.icl, Th hP'Jl be as grPa l an artist

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be of the same caliber as the says the man who headed 'the Ram. ea on before being sacked in fa,,or of Bob Waterfield, "The first year we'll have only one team comparable to the teams in the other league. I'm talking about the Houston club which got off 10 an earl~ start and signed a lot o( top talent. "Houston should be easih the elass of 1he new league. But it's a temporai·y ·ituation. We hope to reduce that difference in 1961 and the competition should be real close in the next fpw years." Public Goes For New Club Like most o! the teams in the new league, Gill- man's Chargers will be composed mo ·tly of rookie , castoffs and r etreads. Hi. qua1·terba<'k i!1 Jack Kemp, an Occidental athlet · who was fried and found Jae-k- ing by sewra l • 'ational LPague ti>ams. And he's hopeful of obtaining mileage from such Ram di cards as Ron Waller. Bob BoYd and Glenn Holtzman . That's not mul'h or' an attral'tion when contrasted 1o the glamour boys of the Ram --Jon Arnett, Ollie Mat on and Del hofner-but the public doesn't seem to mind. The Chargers ha\'e had an astonishing and wonderful reaetion at ·the boxoffice. Gilhnan re- port that 14,CXKl ;;eason tickets already have been sold, and the new leal{ue still ha. n't published iis schedule. "Don't ask me to explain ii." say· Gillman. "I'm just the coach and I'm not upposed to understand such mysteries. But the season ticket sale is absolute- ly fanta tic. The way it's going, we'll approach the Rams' . ales. The onlr thing I can tell you is that the people around he1·e sure love football." The public r espon e i all the more remarkable in view of the prices being charged by the new club. The Charger price is S4 pe1· ticket. or 10 cents more than the Ram. ' ·t·ale. Gillman's athletes will play their home schedule in Memorial Coliseum, and the program will be arranged at the eom·enience of the Rams. "We'll take what's left," says Gillman, with no hint of rancor. '·We'll play any Friday night . Satur- day night or Sunda~ afternoon. It doesn't matter: the fans ,vill come out to see u. whenever we pla~." ' Gillman Almost Quit Game Durmg his tenur e with the Rams, Gillman was probably the best organized coach in football. He knew e\'er)ihing about his football players, including their bad habit and ring size . Now he's thrown into a c-onfusing situation wher e he has trouble re- membering the names of his empl_oyes. But he's no longer a football coach out of work, and he 's grateful for small favors. Ask him why he joined the Chargers (after the job previously was refu ed by Bob McBride) and he doesn't bore you with the standard cliche ahout the "challenge of a new situation." "I took this job because ~Ir. Hilton convinced me it was a fine opportunity," says Gillman. "But, most of all, the decision was prompted by my desire 1o remain in Los Angele . My wife and children like lhing in Los Angeles and we didn't want to Jea,·e. "I had seyeral other opportunities in football, but I had about decided to get out of the game when Mr. Hilton offered me this job." He was gi\·en a free hand in choo ing his staff by Leahy, the Charger ' general manager, and he likes the security represented by Hilton's hotel millions. Gillman jid the difficult job of pleasing five mil- lionair with the Rams; now the field is narrowed to ozelle, then general 1m·nager oi the Rams, had oontat't fi\-e bos es before firing Gillman. Leahy·s ta;;k will be less complicated. All he needs is permi. ·011 from the Hilton , Barron and Conrad. In the football coaching dodge, 1hat'. prngress. I ational League," five

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ar 1we i1t l'n1ve1 lty of San Diego Boo ters Club. " You have o b a co,1, h to know how had thi!'l m (l me fo I. "lmployers for the en- ter! i111rn. 1 'lt dollar Sid Urges Common Draft 111 n ,.., rlub sold 16,000 Pason tickets the first werK afte opening it of!i e , and Gillman is con- vm(•c-d h, 's wo1·king for a thrh ing concern. "The ports Cnn is a trange guy," says Gillman. •· lot or people are oppo~ed to just about evt>.f)1hing. ¼e're g tting ustomers who don't like the Dodgers 'tnd th Ram. ; the. 're going 10 ·upport us, instead. or cour • there are a lot of other people who are attracted lo a JJP\\ team and a new league. "The whole thing 01t or reminds me of the way th • ntional League pkked it.' new commissioner. 'w'hen th owners went into the meeting at liami they knew who they were against, but not who they were 01·. 1 his kind of thing went on for a long time and, !inally, somebody sugge.sted Pete Rozelle. They couldn't think of an)ihing against Pete, ~o they gave him the job." Gillman is convin ·ed. incidentally, that both leagues will be hurt badly unle · they agree to work in har- mony. "It's my profound hope," he .says, ''that the leagues will get tog ther, recognize ea<:h other and have a common draft If they don't, a lot of people eventually are going to be priC' d out of football." The onl) certain winner·, in the immediate future, ar the athlete . illman stimate the McKeever twins of Southem Cal will be able io command alaries of around $16,000 next season, plus bonu e of $2,000 for ng. A s r ago, before the new league was orgaruzed, th } probabl~ would have heen forced to ae<·ept 11,000 and a $1,000 bonus. s .To I.oui u ed to say, it beats steahng. ti

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~1 ob will bP a ,·olleclion o! rooki•••• \<•!<•ran 11nd play. PU v.·ho have bel'n ~\and. ing in thP \I ings In thP NFL for ,omPt[m In thl' latlPr cat!'gory f•· J ark Kl'mp, for, mPr OC'cidPntal quar\rr- back who had \rials with fi\·p diflerenl rlub~. "Kemp i• a flne quart.-rhack pros- pl'cl, H's tough to brrak in b<'hind p,·tablishPd p..rform- er~ ,ometimPs, you know," he pomlPd out. The C ha r g P r fl,-ld boss look• forward to a happy relation•hip wllh F r • n k I.eah,, form"r Notre DamP <'011ch who is tram general ma,1ager. ''Frank v..as truly an arl- 1:t 11mong ronch.-s. J kin I l1irn and t"ll him I hope

Sid G1Jlman. coach of th" Lo~ Angeles Charg<'r~. says thP present compPI it ion be- 1\ller>n tlie nrw Amc-ri<'an Football Le gue and \ h e N'ational Football Lragu" "could e, en;. u a l l y pri<'e a lot of p e o p I e right out o! football " lie PX· pr<'SH'd thP hope at last 111ghf l'n1' ,. sitv or San Dirgo Boo~lr.rs Club ban- qllPt that the "two ir-11.gllP. will rl'cogmzl' Paeh ot11<•r and adopt a common draft of play.:,r,," "Something will hR\ e io g I,. P," (;ilJman ~ai

Sld·sald. llSD loolhall roa(•h Paul Pia l~ told the booster~ he hoprs for an lmprovrd learn nPxt la]! with thr rrturn of star back Boll '.!<,-:vi's from thP Marine "Tacklr~ will be our !em," he repor!Pd. w h l t t I e w ?v!Pxif'O dt state,

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Students In the city's public and private high school11 are eligible to compete in a national contest sponsored by the American As- sociation of Teachers of French. Examinations prepared by the organization wm be given at tha schools the first week In April, accori!ing to Prof. Philip N. Nacozy of the University of $an Diego. Thi11 {s the iil·st year that ~an Diei:o 111 participating as an lndepen~ llllU ~nter, Na- cozy said, Diego previously was affllia with the Los An- gele~ C!mtlr. 'Nlicozlil! chairman of the local AATF chapter, which haa 30 membM1, There ar.e lour categories of el',1!,1111,natioDl!I, - for first, sec- ond, third ,i.nd fourth year stu- dents, ~y said. AATF cer- ti,fle&tell, French governrnental medals and other P.rizes will be awarded to winners in each category In eac!1 school, he said. In &ddtt,1011, Nacozy said, the natforial winner will receive French cultural tates, and $25 will to na- e other taking French

llA/IOAj J?7/ i,O USDC West,rnors, 35-1 Unlve~ et smashed 23 hits, eight home runs, yesterday to embarrass Cal Western 35-1, in a baseball gam~ played on Morrow Field. Jim Fiorenza, who h•d a perfect tour-for-four day a bat, hit three of the homers Bob Keyes two. Dick Wilbu' o! the Pioneers had five hits ln six times up, while Keyes hit four for ix.._ Si'o Wntern • .... 11!! tlf 1122- I 5 7 L "· ~46~3523 2 and~~x ek:n, Lorenz ,~tYConnOI" •

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