Dartmouth's "Doggie" Julian

DARTMOUTH'S veteran basketball coach, Alvin F. "Doggie" Julian, who suffered a stroke December 28 in Rochester, N. Y., returned to Hanover late last month. He was flown home in an Eastman Kodak Company plane and was taken to Dick's House, where he will be hospitalized for some time while continuing the rehabilitation measures begun at the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

Julian, one of the senior college coaches in the country, was in his 33rd season of coaching. His colleagues had elected him president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches for the current year. In his long career as basketball mentor he had seen his teams win 386 times, and he had more victories to his credit than any other coach in New England. In this 17th season at Dartmouth, slated to be his last before his planned retirement, the Big Green had posted a 5-1 record before Coach Julian suffered his stroke and had to turn the varsity job over to Dave Gavitt.

The Dartmouth paid tribute to the record and to the man in the following editorial which ran January 5 under the headline, "He Bowed a Winner":

"Doggie Julian has dedicated almost his entire life to coaching basketball. Despite the relative lack of success of the teams under him the past few years, Coach Julian never once showed a lack of faith in the ability of his players. He only asked one thing of them - that they give of themselves 100 per cent.

"In a career that began in 1929, Coach . Julian rose in the coaching ranks until he was named the President of the National Basketball Coaches Association last year. He has always been one of the most respected men in his business, and he has coached many outstanding players and teams over the years.

"Coach Julian was felled by an apparent stroke last Wednesday, thus ending his long and successful 'courtship' with the sport he loved so fervently. Doggie lost favor with the students at Dartmouth when his teams began to decline a few years ago, but those close to home will miss his colorful personality and his unshakable confidence on the court.

"Coach Julian bowed a winner as his club compiled a 5-1 record before his illness. The basketball world and his many friends hope that Coach Julian will have a quick recovery."