“I have always followed the words of General MacArthur,” he said, “who once told us at West Point, ‘Gentlemen, there is no substitute for victory.’ That will be applied here. We as coaches, an organization, and the team shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies. Whatever personnel we have available, we realize football is a violent game and that’s the way we’ll play it.”
