t'itt ANCHOR Thurs., Dec. 10, 1964
Jim Burns of Coyle Is ·Dean
Of Bristol County Coaches
Proteges Swell Coachiln9 RQ~kS
By Fred Bartek '"There is a sense of satisfaetion when you see one of your former players come along to j<>in the coaching ranks with you," observed the dean of all- Bristol County coaches, Jim Bums of Msgr. James Coyle High in Taunton, today as he reminisced about his 31 years in athletics iLt the gave up the court coaching as in 195~recalled that diocesan school. And, Jim signment two of his former players, Bob Bums, who is respected and O'Connell and Rip Regan are
admired by all, has enjoyed the satisfaction of building the coaching ranks more than any other individ ual in these parts. "It's not so much the victories and defeats as it is building char acter in your proteges," com mented the Coyle grid mentor who took up his present duties when the Taunton school opened in 1933. Builds Men "True, everybody likes to win but there is more to competitive athletics _-than victories alone," averred the county dean of schooboy eoaches who has gar nered more than his share of titles for the secondary institu tion which is operated by the Holy Cross Brothers. "It is likewise true that there is a sense of satisfaction when you see one of your boys -go on to college to establish a reputa tion for himself," Bums reclared as he signalled out a number who have excelled on the colle giate gridiron. "Of course, Carlin Lynch at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth is the most successful former Coyle player in the coaching ranks thus far," Jim Bums asserted. In Many Loeales "Charley Connell who helps Carlin as an assistant at Stang is another one of our boys as ill Joe Tavares who served last year as an aide to Lynch. And, there is also John O'Brien, the head basketball man at Stang, both a Coyle graduate and also a former Coyle hoop coach," the former Notre Dame U:niversity atqlete said. (Ed. Note: The Tavares to whom Burns alluded is the same individual who drew the carica ture of Burns on this page.) How many other former Coyle players are coaching today?" the veteran football and baseban mentor was asked. .Justifiably Proud "Let's start with you," said Burns to this writer. "You are now assisting at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro. And, there is your brother Peter who is handling the head coaching grid reins at neighboring Norton High School. Peter started as an assistant to Carlin Lynch at Stang while he was going to Providence College." "With you ·at Feehan in Attie boro, two assistant coaches, Peter Gazzola and Homer Roy, gradu ated from 'our school'. " "Right here at,. Coyle, Jim Lanigan is the head basketball coach. Bobby Lane assists in football and basketball and is the head track coach. Stan Koss, another of our Coyle boys, is an assistant basketball coach," Burns noted. Jim Sullivan at nearby Som erset High is another Coyle graduate. Jim is head football coach, having succeeded Lynch When the latter accepted his present post at Stang. Dick Arletta currently works as an assistant football and bas ketball coach at Fairhaven High. Burns, who used to coach all three major sports - football, basketball and baseball until lie
coaching today at Brockton High School. Also in the Greater Brockton area, .Bob Quegan is coaching at Rockland High while steve Tur calo used to direct the grid ac tivities at Randolph. Walter Scanlon, who relin quished the football coaching job at Dighton-Rehoboth to as sume the duties of athetic direc tor at that regional high school, is another well known former Coyle graduate. "And down on Cape Cod we have a former Warrior letter man in Dennis Dwyer at Barn stable. John Gray used to coach at Bourne, to Coach Burns ob served. Star in College At the western end of Massa chusetts, ''Butch'' Mackery ill well known in the coaching ranks because of his numerous successful teams. His brother "Porky" is equally well known as an official. ''Right here in Taunton, two former Coyle players served as football coaches at Taunton High. They are John Carroll and Hamilton Lane. The latter also coached basketball," Burns said as he was pressed to continue the list of former players who are teaching the rudiments of contact athletics to a younger generation.
"Over at Mansfield, Bill Sul
livan, the basketball coach, ill
another of our boys," the Taun
tonian added as he swelled the
long list of Coyle athletes of whom he is humbly proud. Among the well known Coyle athletes who went on to college to establish names for them selves, C 0 a c h Burns listed Thomas McCann, John Carroll, and Carlin Lynch, who excelled at Holy Cross. "And there was Dave Yelle, Rip Regan, Fran Gallagher, Bob Quegan; who played for the Boston College Eagles on Chestnut Hill. Well Known Players Bill Sullivan -and Bob O'Con nell continued their football ca';' reers at Fordham University in New York. Walt Scanlon and the late Leo Quegan, who was killed in World War II, earned their let ters at Providence College in the days when the Dominicans were represented on the collegiate gridiron. The late Casimir Malinowski was a wen known Georgetown University' football player, the Coyle coach recalled. Herb O'Connell went to Har-
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Sales School in New York City. After two years in the South, Bums returned to his native New England when he accepted the three-sport coaching job at the Taunton diocesan school when it opened its doors to the boys of the area seeking a Cath olic secondary education. He directed all three sports until five years ago when he relin quished the basketball assign ment to his former protege, John O'Brien. The latter, now the Stang hoop coach, was suc ceeded by the present mentor, Jim Lanigan. There have been seven prin cipals. at Coyle during Burns' 31 year stay, Brother Marcian, Brother Richard, Brother Owens, Brother Ralph, Brother Hughes and the present principal, Broth er Thomas. The late Rev. Ray mond Burgoin also _ served as headmaster during the 1940's.
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Catholic College Drops Football
COACH JIM BURNS
Bagful of Titles Over 31 Years
van!. Steve Turcalo matricu lated at Boston University where be excelled in football and Steve Chambers was voted on the Lit tle All-American team when he
played at the University of Massachusetts. Respected Coach Bums has had more than ordi nary success at Coyle. His clubs are always among the best .trained and best conditioned in Southeastern Massachusetts. Five times he has directed undefeated and untied grid combines. His success in basketball and baseball are equally well known to the athletic-minded in this general area. Every opposing teams knows it will have a bat tle on its hand when it plays a Taunton diocesan aggregation. Burns' ability is an accepted fact. A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Burns was a close friend of the
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late Most Rev. James E. Cassidy,
the third Bi.shop of Fall River,
who founded- the Taunton dioc
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Burns was a member of the Notre Dame University grid squad when he pursued his col lege education at the South Bend institution which is oper ated by the Holy Cross Fathers who today direct Stonehill Col lege in North Easton. Jim's first fling in coaching came the year after he left Notre Dame when he took up the reins at Holy Cross High School in New Orleans. Daughter Is Nun He married the former Flor ence Outhouse of Peekskill, N.Y. in 1930. They are the parents of two daughters. The oldest daughter, Florence, is now Mrs. Henry Brazil of Taunton, the mother- of three children. Their youngest daughter, Janet, is .now Sister Mary Catherine of the Religious of the Holy Union of. the Sacred Heart. She is cu~ rently assigned at St. Francis de
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DETROIT (NC) - The Titans of the University of Detroit, who· played their first intercollegiate football game on Thanksgiving Day, 1896, and lost, have aban doned the sport. Father Laurence Britt, S.J., university president, announced the "reluctant" decision to drop varsity football because it is too expensive. Father Britt said: "The admin istration is convinced that it would no longer be justified in gambling substantial funds on a program that has become in creasingly costly, whose total success would seem to depend on ~aving only winning teams, playmg only top-level oppo nents, preferably on days when the weather is fair and there was not too much competition from nearby professional, collegiate, university, and even high school football games." The Titans' 68-year record in cludes 305 wins, 200 losses and 25 ties. In 1917 the Titans beat Toledo 145-0, the school's record high score.
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