great article. Ive been in the punting circle for 51 years, and I would include Alex Moffatt who literally became my first mentor even though I never met him, and as you and the others may know was the first to develop the spiral punt back in 1881 and the drop kick
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.
great article. Ive been in the punting circle for 51 years, and I would include Alex Moffatt who literally became my first mentor even though I never met him, and as you and the others may know was the first to develop the spiral punt back in 1881 and the drop kick
Unfortunately, he is one of those guys I should have looked into long ago, but haven't I haven't. He's always in the picture.
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.