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	Eulogy to Coach Frank Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Coach Howard said: "I'll help Bob Edwards out on this," and with that, placed his hand on the top of my head and said: "I crown you Dr. Bradley." That was in 1958 and I was Dr. Bradley to him until his last day on earth.
		Coach Howard hung around for 30 years as head coach and as all of us know, he had to quit coaching because of health reasons...the alumni got sick of him.
		Coach Howard told them there was a guy down at Auburn who had produced a lot of good running backs, including Fob James, who is now governor of Alabama, and that this coach also had won 25 in a row once at Decatur High School in Atlanta.
	greenvilleonline.com /news/sports/tigers/frankhoward/eulogy.htm (1171 words)

	Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/howard.html (3042 words)

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	GreenvilleOnline - Frank Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Frank Howard retired from coaching Dec. 10, 1969.
		Frank Howard was buried Sunday on Cemetery Hill, after his daughter placed a plug of his favorite tobacco in the pocket of his orange Hall of Fame coat and his son struck up the student band for a graveside rendition of "Tiger Rag." The Greenville News 1/28/96
		Howard was nicknamed "The Baron of Barlow Bend" for his hometown near Mobile, Ala.
	greenvilleonline.com /news/sports/tigers/frankhoward (590 words)

	I Believe . . .
		Coach Howard asked the staff, "How dem boys doin' out there, men?" One by one the coaches around the table reported on the progress of their players.
		The Ol' Coach slowly chewed his plug tobacco, occasionally spitting in a large paper cup, and slowly tapped his stubby, fat fingers on the huge, dark oak table as I carried on and on about the athletic deficiencies of the kids I coached.
		Coach Beckish is a member of the South Carolina State University coaching staff, coaching the Offensive Line.
	www.coachingsitesonline.com /main/articles.asp?StoryID=118 (866 words)

	Player Bio: Frank Howard :: Football
		Howard stepped onto the rolling hills of Clemson in 1931 fresh from the varsity football ranks at the University of Alabama where he was a first stringer on Wallace Wade's 1930 team that drubbed Washington State, 24-0, in the 1931 Rose Bowl.
		Howard kept his hands in football as he served as the chief recruiter for the Gray squad in the annual Blue-Gray game in Montgomery, AL.The Blue squad recruiter was Don Faurot, who opposed Howard in the 1949 Gator Bowl.
		Howard has also been inducted into the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame in San Francisco, CA., is an honorary member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, and is a member of the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
	clemsontigers.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/howard_frank00.html (1889 words)

	MOP Squad Sports - Howard's Hill & The Rock
		Howard found no immediate use for the rock, and it sat on the floor in his office for at least one year.
		Coach Howard began to use the term "Death Valley" to describe Memorial Stadium himself in the 1950s.
		Though all the events were in place for the tradition to continue unchanged, Coach Howard's retirement brought a short end to the Tigers running down the Hill.
	www.mopsquad.com /ncaa/schools/clemson/howards_rock.htm (919 words)

	Fun Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A football coach walked into the locker room before a game, looked over to his star player and said, "I'm not supposed to let you play since you failed math, but we need you in there.
		Football is a game when 22 big, strong players run around for two hours while 50,000 people who really need the exercise sit in the stands and watch.
		The coach was dumbfounded and asked if the boy could run, to which the boy replied, "Hell yah!" and he sprinted from end zone to end zone like lightning.
	www.coachz.net /Funstuff.htm (1635 words)

	Clemson Football History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Tigers have had several very well known coaches coach them in their years, with the most prolific to date being Frank Howard.
		Howard, who coached at Clemson from 1940-1969, has the most wins by any Clemson coach to date with 195.
		During the 1950's, he started calling Memorial Stadium "Death Valley" after the Presbyterian football coach exclaimed that that is what Memorial Stadium was (whenever Presbyterian played Clemson, Clemson outright destroyed them).
	www.birdnest.org /pager2/history.htm (288 words)

	TigerNet -- Football -- History -- Banks McFadden, Hall of Famer
		Banks coached the defensive backs for one year (1941) before joining the Army Air Corps and spending four years in North Africa and Italy He was dis charged as a colonel.
		Besides his football coaching years, McFadden also put in a stint as varsity track coach, freshman basketball coach and was for 10 years the varsity basketball coach Then after Howard resigned as football coach in 1969 McFadden took over the university's intramural department which he directed for l5 years.
		Howard, an assistant coach at the time said that if McFadden had drank a can of tomato juice, they could have used him as a thermometer.
	tigernet.carol.net /football/history/mcfadden.jsp (1192 words)

	Presbyterian College:
		The present coach, Cally Gault, referred to McMillian, who in later years was confined to a wheelchair with the loss of one leg and vision and hearing problems, as an excellent athlete who had a total of eleven pass receptions in one game against Clemson in 1920.
		Coach Jones was a star athlete at Lanier High School in Macon, attending Middle Georgia College and was captain of the football, basketball, and baseball teams before leaving to serve in World War II.
		Coach Jones is married to the daughter of the former University of Georgia Coach Wallace Butts, and they have a son and a daughter (The Blue Stocking.
	www.presby.edu /presby_main/freeform_template_T7_R1705.html (3310 words)

	Clemson Football Tickets, Clemson Tigers Football Tickets
		The Tigers football program is currently the leader among ACC schools for conference championships at 13, in addition to 2 Southern Conference titles.
		Clemson's football team also has one of the most unique traditions in all of college football.
		Before each home game, the team gathers at the top of the hill on the east side of Memorial Stadium, where each player proceeds to rub "Howard's Rock" (which is an imported rock from Death Valley, California that was presented to Frank Howard in 1967) and run down the hill onto the field.
	www.frontrowking.com /collegefootball/clemson_tigers_tickets.html (134 words)

	Meet Nebraska Cornhusker Football's New Coach Frank Solich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		[Frank:] Yeah well you know I don't know if that was the case when you truly look at it at the end of the year, we had five teams, five Big 12 teams that were in the top 25 and so the Big 12, I think was representable.
		The other half of the Solich partnership is Frank's wife Pam and the Nebraska ETV cameras caught up with her down in Florida prior to the Orange Bowl.
		I mean she's been around it since the day she was born, but um yeah, she knows so much about football and so what she had read, they live in Overland Park, Kansas, and she said her husband had brought home a paper from work and she was all upset because they called Frank bookish.
	net.unl.edu /~swi/sports/frank.html (8136 words)

	NCAA Team History - History of NCAA Football Teams, NCAA History
		Recent Grand Marshall's have ranged from current PGA professional Dillard Pruitt, to College Football Hall of Fame legends Jess Neely and Frank Howard, to noted television announcers Brent Musburger and Ara Parseghian.
		The rock is mounted on a pedestal at the top of the hill and was given to Coach Frank Howard by a friend (S.C. Jones' 19) who picked it up in Death Valley, CA.
		Coach Howard continued the tradition when locker rooms were finally built inside the stadium because Clemson fans used to get so fired up when they gathered at the top of the hill.
	www.hollywoodsportsbook.com /ncaa_football_history/footballhistory_clemson.cfm (2145 words)

	BBTF's Hall of Merit Discussion :: Frank Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Howard may have had some trouble with the expanded strike zone that was in effect from 1963-68.
		In 1964, Howard's batting average took a tumble, and he was traded from the Dodgers to the Senators in the offseason.
		When he was a coach with the Mets in the early nineties, I took my nephew to a game where there was a postgame "kids run the bases" event, and Hondo stood in the first-base coaching box, urging the kids on.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/hall_of_merit/discussion/frank_howard (5608 words)

	Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Banks McFadden passes away at 88 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		McFadden, a College Football Hall of Famer who was also a star on the Tigers basketball team, is generally regarded one of the greatest athletes in Clemson history.
		The school's football building is named for him and he was part of the first class inducted into the Ring of Honor, his name high up at football's Death Valley stadium.
		McFadden became freshman football coach at Clemson for five years before returning to coach defensive backs in 1955, a position he held until Howard retired in 1969.
	www.jquinton.com /archives/002892.html (896 words)

	ACC Football Coaches Quotes: Week 3 :: Find out what your team's coach had to say.
		You have to remember that I hadn't been in college coaching in a long time when I was taking on a staff, so I had to take some people's word on some guys as football coaches.
		Coach (Charlie) Taaffe was the winningest head coach at The Citadel.
		Howard Griffith was a tailback at Illinois who I think in one game at one time scored (eight) touchdowns at tailback.
	theacc.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090903aaj.html (12653 words)

	Scout.com: New Sport Coming
		Frank Howard was an outstanding football player at Alabama, but better known as the head football coach at Clemson, where the "Bard of Barlow Bend" was very successful.
		The crew team went to Howard to see if crew could not be made an intercollegiate sport so that the athletics department would pay for the skulls and oars and travel expenses to competitions, not to mention athletics scholarships for the team members.
		But, of course, Howard didn't have to contend with Title IX issues, which mandate schools take the money from football and basketball that have a big fan base and earn revenue and use it to fund women's sports.
	alabama.scout.com /2/450264.html (368 words)

	Football Coaching Articles from Football Coaching Sites.com
		All kids should be coached the way you would want your son coached -- anything less is unfair to kids.
		A coach has to take the time to tell a kid his efforts on and off the field are appreciated.
		While coaching at Witchita State, Coach Beckish, then the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator and the staff developed the Trap Option.
	www.footballcoachingsites.com /main/articles.asp?StoryID=201 (575 words)

	College Football Mythology - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		This tradition started in 1922 when an actual person in the stands (a basketball player who had played some football) was called down to the bench and asked to suit up on the sideline because of the toll injuries had taken on the team.
		The rock was brought back from Death Valley California by a fan and given to head coach Frank Howard.
		In the 1960s, UT head coach Doug Dickey put orange 'T's on the helmets and had the 'Pride of the Southland Marching Band' form a giant 'T' for the team to run through as they came out on the field.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/College-Football-Mythology-233816.html (681 words)

	McFadden Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After being discharged as a colonel, McFadden came back to Clemson and was again the secondary coach, this time for four years (1946-49).
		He took over as head freshman football coach for five years before returning to coach defensive backs in 1955, a spot he held until Coach Frank Howard retired following the 1969 season.
		Beside his football coaching years, McFadden also put in stints as varsity track coach, freshman basketball coach and was for 10 years the varsity basketball coach.
	www.clemson.edu /tour/pages/other_campus_areas/mcfadden_building.htm (214 words)

	College Football Hall of Fame
		He became known as "Legendary Frank Howard", as the school presented him its most prestigious award, the Clemson Medallion, and named the football field for him.
		His record as head coach was 165- 118-12, and his teams played in the Sugar, Orange, Gator, and Bluebonnet Bowls.
		Frank's home-spun humor made him a national star on the banquet circuit.
	collegefootball.org /famersearch.php?id=50009 (235 words)

	Frank Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over US$130,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		Frank Howard is the name of three noted people:
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Howard (98 words)

	Clemson Tigers Tommy Bowden Frank Howard Danny Ford Jess Neely - Realfootball365.com
		Coaching greats like Ford and the late Frank Howard are practically worshiped, and it is not unusual to see footballs--not baseballs--being thrown during springtime on Clemson's historic Bowman Field.
		While Coach Bowden (who is entering his eighth season with the Clemson Tigers) has yet to build a team worthy of competing for national attention, he has slowly and very quietly moved up the ranks of Clemson's all-time greatest coaches.
		Howard, who coached Clemson from 1940-1969, holds the school record with 166 wins, and Ford (1978-89) places second, with 96.
	www.realfootball365.com /college/articles/2006/08/tommy-bowden-clemson030806.html (741 words)

	College Football Coach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the fall of 1905, President Roosevelt called a White House conference, attended by Reid college football coach and the coaches at Yale college football coach and Princeton, to discuss brutality college football coach and unethical conduct in college football.
		Eddie Robinson (football coach) - Eddie Gay Robinson (not short for Edward) (born February 13, 1919 in Jackson, Louisiana) spent 56 years as the head college football coach at Grambling State University from 1942 until 1997.
		Frank Howard (football coach) - Frank J. Howard (March 25, 1909 - January 26, 1996) was an American college football player and coach.
	collegefootball.usamsoc.com /collegefootballcoach.html (1060 words)

	Hash Marks Football News Alabama Crimson Tide
		Bennett was a four-year letterman for the Crimson Tide from 1983-86 under head coach Ray Perkins and was a team mate of current Alabama head football coach Mike Shula.
		He joins Bama greats such as Paul Bear Bryant, John Hannah, Frank Howard, Lee Roy Jordan, Johnny Musso, and Ozzie Newsome, players which have made their way into the Hall of Fame, which is located in South Bend, Indiana.
		As a senior, Bennett was named the winner of the Lombardi Trophy, given annually to college football’s top lineman, He was also named the SEC Player of the Year and was seventh in the Heisman Trophy balloting.
	www.hash-marks.com /Alabama_Crimson_Tide_Football.html (528 words)

	SportingNews.com - Your expert source for Clemson players 'rub the rock'
		The stone was brought to campus -- and to then-coach Frank Howard -- from Death Valley, Calif., by 1919 Clemson graduate S.C. Jones and pretty much forgotten about.
		One day as Howard cleaned up his office, he told longtime booster club president, Gene Willimon, to "take this rock and throw it over a fence, or out in the ditch...
		Frank Howard enhanced the tradition as only he could, telling his players the next year that if they were willing to give maximum effort, they could rub the rock.
	www.sportingnews.com /cfootball/articles/20060920/781070-p.html (564 words)

	NCAA Football - CBS SportsLine.com
		McFadden, a College Football Hall of Famer who was also a star on the Tigers basketball team, is generally regarded one of the greatest athletes in Clemson history.
		The school's football building is named for him and he was part of the first class inducted into the Ring of Honor, his name high up at football's Death Valley stadium.
		In football, McFadden led Clemson to a 9-1 record in 1939 and the school's first bowl bid, a 6-3 victory over Boston College in the 1940 Cotton Bowl.
	cbs.sportsline.com /collegefootball/story/8533686/1 (498 words)

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