European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 23 fix Breaks Nof his Faith the athletic director of the College with the broken heart is singularly qualified for the he has been a student he has been an athlete he has been a coach he has been the president of the National collegiate athletic he has been an Fri and he has a broken William a Young Gray Man who looks like came out from behind his desk last week to sit closer and talk for 23 years but longer than that Bill Flynn has been the proprietor of All things athletic at Boston and the and the his Home is a choke Down 9iron or a full pitch ing wedge from a House identifiable at a glance either by the Golden Eagle displayed out front or the Maroon Angold station Wagon parked in the the station Wagon is Well known to Cam pus Security men on the late whenever Flynn sleep is and it has been most fitful he gets up and goes driving around the jiggling the keeping the and one Early morning he discovered a Gas leak in a fieldhouse clothes after he turned off the Gas and shut off the sprinkler Bill soaked but went the Justice department asked us not to discuss it weve been sticking to he said but it would be hard to describe i just dont have a description for three years three by basketball players one of them the classically perfect altar boy of a another the classically imperfect Street wanderer of a kid and the third just a kid allegedly betrayed College me and Bill a creep named Henry Hill tells All about it in sports the masterminds inside Story of the Boston col lege Point shaving How i put the fix although is gave this Federal Penitentiary Grad uate a few too Many Slick writers moves to the causing the narrative to read a Little As if Damon Runyon had written it for big Julie and causing the voice that came through to sound a lot like Sheldon Leonard reciting in a sewer during a Tom Callahan Lull in a crap Hills Rotten Story was All too the by athletic Bill Hill says Hes extremely disturbed that someone would come in and take advantage of Young people like Why should i feel bad about the kids they didst feel bad about taking my Flynn naivete amused Henry it was suggested to Flynn thursday that it might be a flaw in a Man to look too much for the Good in people and a failing in an athletic director to be surprised that villainy he agreed Only that a Man can see a lot of Good if he looks for you have to have Faith in human he a great whom i owe a lot said that to me so Many people Are fundamentally you have to believe no matter although he was a Captain in three sports and there is a three time Captain under investigation Flynn int the Type inclined to say How much better things and people were Back in i think the student we have today is the Best today athlete is As Good a person As Ive Ever known Bill Flynn weve Ever today athlete is As Good a person As Ive Ever As Good As the people i played it was mentioned that he was but do not read in any impression of frailty bul rather one of As in a one of his which he captained and was the Boston Flynn has that hockey trait of seeing every thing while not appearing to be looking at that descriptive of a special agent of the that was a great he thinking Back to the the Only period of his life away from and a great he is in the remarkable position of having first hand knowledge of All the Levels of a Story such As the the the two Days before the first reports of this Flynn term As president of the Mcaa Ive enjoyed All these but i always wanted to be a teacher and a and i guess those were my happiest i enjoy i really love my being an athletic director has never been Flynn is the father of a lot of buildings at notably the William Flynn student recreation Complex he insisted on two things the Stu Dent in the name and that the Varsi ties stay but he Doest care to be commended for Specland Stone i dont go for he people Are what Ive come in Contact with a lot of great people make or break he we have great people great players and great his Jesuit Faith in people Doest seem to have been shaken at so Many people believe in he there but there going to get Over heart wounds the eagles Victory Over Providence was played Over Sis scoop thursday morning in the Boston secretaries in the athletic office the Washington Star but Battles rumours Over reflexes Tate helped by 6month Layoff by George Vecsey not the last time John Tate was seen in a boxing his head Lay Fiat on the apron and one leg twitched death was in the air that night in Mon Treal Cleveland Denny had been pounded toward his final coma by Gaetan and John Tate a former Champion Lay quivering in the i was says Ace the Little Napoleon of the Dogwood City who manages tates i want scared when Mike Weaver knocked John out in but when somebody like Trevor Berbick hits John twice in the Back of the head that scared me a Tate had been the world boxing association Champion until Weaver knocked him out with 45 seconds remaining in the 15th round last March when Berbick slugged him twice in Tate joined that vast Circle of boxers about whom peo ple Cluck their tongues and a Nice but he ought to get Tate was to attempt a comeback against one Harvey imported from Tate will also be battling rumours he cannot take a his reflexes Are he has suffered brain damage far ahead of the grim actuarial tables of boxing and that his East Tennes see supporters will push him until it is too there is some evidence Tate is not the Basket Case of the rumours at least out Side the since a six month Layoff pre scribed by his Tate has built his body on weight has Learned about diet and has proudly improved his speech and his Reading under the Tutelage of his in in better shape than and i dont worry about the Tate said last the Only thing i know is that in when you know youre you work hard work has been a constant fact of life to formerly of West who spent his Middle teens picking Cotton in the South and apples in upstate new because he grew to be 4inches tall with accompanying Tate had a Chance to evade the life of a migrant work he came to Knoxville in 1975 for a Golden gloves tournament and asked his opponent where he had Learned to the fighter pointed to a Bantam Mountaineer with the flickering hand Ges Tures of a carny and thus began a love affair that matches Joe Paloska and Knobby or Oliver and de pending on the Miller has been a newspaper a Motel manager and a service station attendant i still do All the mechanical work around the he lost three fights As a decided it was safer on the other Side of the ropes and in the 1970s began accumulating fighters who were mesmerized by his glib Tongue and his Alley in a Miller openly this is a vicious and youve got to be mean a lot of the but ill be i want my fighter to love me and love everybody else except his of ill take All the Miller wooed Tate with the magic words uttered after an Amateur fight in 1975 John you can be Champion of the Tate returned on a greyhound bus a few months later to put his Fate in the hands of the Hillbillies a raffish col Lection of Beer drinkers who go by Nick names like bad mad dog and wrong Tate was at least two worlds removed from the Tennessee is comprised of three separate states West Tennessee the deep hot and brooding Middle Tennessee the upbeat and and East Tennessee pious and Rock particularly with Yankee have found it unsettling to see this Large Black who came Here signing x on the dotted being controlled by Miller and his merry but Tate might not be a he says he saw similarities that transcended and he seems to have reasoned his Best Chance in this harsh world would come in the craggy hollows of cast since Tate settled in Miller kept his sending him to South Afri Ca where Tate Defeated Gerrie Coetzee for the Aba not everybody in boxing was convinced Tate had enough tools to stay healthy against the Best but he was being groomed for Muhammad Ali last March As he defended his 200 record against Weaver ahead on All three cards and with a mostly White crowd chanting Bigjohn tried to entangle Weaver in the final but in the last minute Weaver caught him with a left Hook that put him very Down and very up photo John Tate connects in March title loss to Weaver