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Mlly Tohill Fired as TCU Head Coach
A&M Receiver Coach Gil Bartosh Possible Successor
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1973
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■ORT WORTH Tex. WP>—Billy
Shill, the tough Texas Christian
lad ho nearly
st his life this spring in an au-
Inobile accident, has been fired,
he Associated Press learned ex-
—asively Monday night.
|ohill told Associated Press
Jthwest Sports Editor Denne
jeman in an exclusive interview
I “They fired me because I
(n’t been winning.”
[he firing is effective Dec. 1
TCU’s last game against
in Dallas.
Jhe 34-year-old Tohill, who
ped into the job midway
ugh the 1971 season when
2401 Texas Ave I dropped dead of a
823-8002 ■ attack, relayed the news in
demotion-packed speech to his
Monday night.
'ohill told The AP that Ath-
Director Abe Martin walked
|o the office at 2:30 p.m. Mon-
and asked, “Are you busy?”
ohill said Martin handed him
(tatement from chancellor Dr.
lies M. Moudy.
said I had been relieved
my coaching duties,” Tohill
, “It was hard to get past
first paragraph . . . the rest
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was kind of blurry.”
Tohill, whose team was 3-6
this season and lost 52-7 to Texas
last week, has two years remain
ing on his contract.
Those mentioned in rumors as
possible successors to Tohill in
cluded Jim Shofner, the San Fran
cisco 49er receiver coach, Gil Bar
tosh, an assistant at Texas A&M
and former TCU star, and Hunt
er Enis a former TCU quarter
back who has entered private
business after spending a few
years as a quarterback coach of
the Denver Broncos.
“They told me they would pay
off the contract if I can’t find
another job,” said Tohill, who
walks on an artificial leg because
of surgery required from the ac
cident in which his car hit a
bridge abutment going 90 miles
an hour.
Tohill, his voice choking with
emotion, said, “I hope I can get
another coaching job somewhere
... I don’t have any future plans
. . . right now I’m coaching
through the SMU game.”
The tobacco-chewing coach said,
“I would have liked to have had
one more year. We had the nu
cleus for a good team. We just
had so many injuries this year.
Just look at what happened to
our frontline players like Mike
Luttrell and Kent Marshall. . .
We didn't have any depth . . .
We just needed one more good re
cruiting year.”
Tohill came to TCU with Pitt
man from Tulane. He and Pitt
man shared the Southwest Con
ference Coach of the Year hon
ors in 1971 after Pittman’s death
as the Horned Frogs surged to a
surprising third place.
Tohill said, “There’s no need
to be bitter—that’s not going to
accomplish anything. I’ve had a
good relationship with the people
here . . . I’m not going to cut
them up.”
Tohill opened the season on
crutches but has gained strength
/ith each succeeding week and
walks now with only a slight limp
on his artificial leg.
“This is the first time I’ve
ever been fired from anything,”
Tohill said, still not believing the
news. “I heard the rumors but I
still thought we had done a good
job considering the injuries and
all. There’s not many folks beat
ing Texas these days you know.”
TCU plays Rice Saturday at
Amon Carter Stadium in Fort
Worth, and Tohill said, “I know
the kids will give me everything
they have. I wouldn’t want to be
Rice Saturday.”
Before joining Pittman at Tu
lane, Tohill had served five sea
sons at his alma mater, Mississip
pi State. He was a schoolboy All-
American quarterback - fullback
at Batesville, Miss. He lettered
three years at Mississippi State.
Tohill, who has an 11-13 rec
ord at TCU, said he called his
wife, Bobbie Jean, to break the
news and “It kind of floored her.
It will be a bleak Thanksgiving
at our house. Come to think of
it . . . it’s going to be that way
Christmas, too. I just wished they
had given me one more year.”
“It upsets me. I really think
a lot of Tohill. I think he is a
great coach,” said quarterback
Lee Cook, who took over the
Falcons Destroy
Vikes 9 Win Streak
ATLANTA <^>—Bob Lee, the
field general of an inspired
Atlanta offense, fired two second-
period touchdown passes Monday
night and the Falcons knocked
the Minnesota Vikings from the
unbeaten ranks of the National
Football League with a 20-14
victory in their nationally tele
vised game.
Ignited by a crowd of 56,519
who roared almost constantly the
entire game, the Falcons rolled
to their sixth consecutive victory.
It left them only one game be
hind the Los Angeles Rams in
the National Conference West
Division race with a 7-3 record.
The defeat was the first after
nine straight victories for the
Vikings, who clinched the NFC
Central Division crown a week
ago, their fifth in the last six
years.
Lee, who connected on 10 of 18
passes for 171 yards in the first
half, teamed with Dave Hampton
on a 19-yard screen pass for
Atlanta’s first touchdown and
then scrambled away from a
fierce Viking rush to find Eddie
Ray alone near the goal line for
a 39-yard scoring strike later in
the second period.
However, the Falcons had to
withstand a late charge by Fran
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Tarkenton, Minnesota’s scram
bling quarterback who once was
benched by Atlanta Coach Norm
Van Brocklin when both were
with the Vikings during the
1960s.
Tarkenton, who threw a 39-
yard scoring pass to John Gil
liam in the second quarter, drove
the Vikings 49 yards in 11 plays
and pitched a two-yard touch
down strike to Bill Brown with
6:29 left in the game to cut
Atlanta’s lead to 20-14.
With less than two minutes
remaining, shortly after Atlanta
had ground out a first down,
Lee fumbled and Jim Marshall
scooped up the ball and raced
18 yards where he fumbled, but
Alan Page recovered for the
Vikings. The Vikings took a
15-yard penalty on the play for
tripping, but had possession at
the Falcons 48.
Tarkenton threw two incom
plete passes, was sacked for a
four-yard loss and on fourth
down scrambled attempting to get
the yardage for a first down, but
went out of bounds a yard short
and the Falcons took over and
ran out the final 55 seconds of
play.
Atlanta’s other scoring came
on Nick Mike-Mayer field goals
of 25 and 49 yards, the latter a
line-drive in the third quarter.
Mike-Mayer, the NFC's leading
scorer, had missed on field goal
attempts from the 46 and 21 in
the opening period.
Fred Cox, Minnesota’s kicking
specialist, had a 49-yard field
goal try hit the cross bar and
fall away in the final quarter,
but he did kick a pair of extra
points to extend his NFL scoring
record to 150 consecutive games.
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starting signal calling job last
week after Kent Marshall was
injured.
“He’s got more courage, more
guts, than anyone I’ve known.
I really hate to see it happen,”
Cook said.
“We’ve been hearing about it
all along but nobody really be
lieved it. It was like something
had been dropped on us.”
Split end Ronnie Littleton call
ed the abrupt dismissal cold
blooded and said: “A man has to
struggle for his life and come
back and now he is gone.”
Continuing, Littleton said, “I’m
really shocked you know. I care
for him not only as a coach but
as a man. He’s a very strong
man . . . probably one of the
strongest on earth.”
Ace running back Mike Lut
trell, also expressing shock, said
“I haven’t really formed an opin
ion yet. I think if they were go
ing to fire him, they’d want to
wait until after the season.”
Luttrell called the action “An
other setback . . . it’s going to
set our athletic program back
another three years.”
He said Tohill “is one of the
greatest men I’ve ever met. He’s
been underrated as both a coach
and a man.”
Merle Wang, the Frogs huge
offensive tackle, said “I’m just
dumbfounded right now . . . I’m
disappointed ... I didn’t think
he would be fired.”
Wang said he was aware of
the rumors that Tohill was on
the way out and said, “If there
was any truth to them, they
should have told him then. I
don’t think they should have not
let him know.”
Jerry Boudreaux, the offensive
line coach, said “It was a com
plete shock—a shock to Coach To
hill, a shock to me, a shock to all
of us.”
Boudreaux said he could not
assess the development at once,
saying “We have two ball games
left and we’re in the midst of
trying to prepare for them.”
As the players flowed out of
the dressing room into a light
rain, one mumbled only to him
self:
“I don’t like it, I just don’t
like it.”
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