What was it like to be the best canal builder in the 1820s or the best buggy whip maker in 1880? It had to feel good to excel at your craft, not knowing that thirty or forty years down the road, your area of expertise would be tossed aside when something better came.
I wrote about Leroy Mills on my St. Mark's Football History page, as he was coaching Charles Munves at the same time he was coaching Frank Carideo. Munves was the ill-fated head coach of the famous Terrill School for Boys (Dallas, TX) through much of the 1930s. Munves had been the QB at City College of New York and became an expert kicker there. When Munves came to Texas in the mid-1930s, he was the kicking coach at SMU while also coaching Terrill. After serving as a Navy diving instructor during WWII, he got into private business in Dallas selling jewelry. On a business trip to Galveston, TX, in the late 1950s, he went for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico and was never seen again. All of his belongings, including his jewelry samples, were found in his hotel room. His body was never found and the family chose to not publish an obituary.
Tragic story. Makes sense he ran into Mills while at CCNY and interesting that Mills' influence made its way to Dallas.
I wrote about Leroy Mills on my St. Mark's Football History page, as he was coaching Charles Munves at the same time he was coaching Frank Carideo. Munves was the ill-fated head coach of the famous Terrill School for Boys (Dallas, TX) through much of the 1930s. Munves had been the QB at City College of New York and became an expert kicker there. When Munves came to Texas in the mid-1930s, he was the kicking coach at SMU while also coaching Terrill. After serving as a Navy diving instructor during WWII, he got into private business in Dallas selling jewelry. On a business trip to Galveston, TX, in the late 1950s, he went for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico and was never seen again. All of his belongings, including his jewelry samples, were found in his hotel room. His body was never found and the family chose to not publish an obituary.