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MATTERS OF THE HEART<br />

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University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong> Libraries<br />

The University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong> athletic staff in 1926, the year John Spellman was born.<br />

Bart Spellman is third from left in the front row. Other legendary Huskies in the group are<br />

Enoch Bagshaw, head football coach, far left, front row; R.C. “Torchy” Torrance, assistant<br />

graduate manager, fourth from left, front row; D.V. “Tubby” Graves, head baseball coach,<br />

far left, back row, and C.S. “Hec” Edmundson, head basketball coach, fourth from left,<br />

back row.<br />

better about the son. 16<br />

Starring in the backfield for the 1930 team was “Cowboy” Johnny Cherberg,<br />

another future member <strong>of</strong> the Husky Hall <strong>of</strong> Fame. Cherberg found<br />

his niche in politics after he was fired as head coach in the mid-1950s. He<br />

served as lieutenant governor for 32 years, a tenure that spanned five governors,<br />

including the line coach’s kid. 17<br />

It was a walk-on who became Coach Spellman’s most famous former<br />

pupil. Warren G. Magnuson was a lithe 5-9 scrapper, whip smart and<br />

movie-star handsome. During high school in Minnesota, he was a standout<br />

quarterback dubbed “Gritty Maggie” when he refused to come out <strong>of</strong> a<br />

game after injuring an ankle. 18 Bagshaw and Spellman doubted Magnuson<br />

was big enough to play major-college ball, but they liked his spunk. Bagshaw<br />

finagled a job for Magnuson delivering ice—a union job no less—to<br />

help him pay for school. The ice came in handy after practice. “I was on<br />

the scrub team and we used to go to the stadium every night and let<br />

the varsity and the stars run all over us in order that they might get in

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