From Quinn@hope.edu Wed Mar 8 07:31:15 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA45306 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:31:13 -0800 Received: from HOPE.CIT.HOPE.EDU (mail.hope.edu [198.110.98.12]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id HAA26203 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:31:12 -0800 Received: from [198.110.102.59] by HOPE.CIT.HOPE.EDU with SMTP for classics@u.washington.edu; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:30:25 -0500 X-Sender: Quinn@mail.hope.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:03:29 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Quinn@hope.edu (John Quinn) Subject: Re: Classics & Football The combination coach/Latin teacher was not all that uncommon. Firm disciplinarians were thought essential for both. Joe Paterno also mentions Lombardi at St. Cecilia's in his own autobiography, *By the Book*, Chapter 4. As many are aware, this is the chapter on Virgil, in which Paterno states that no-one who hasn't read the *Aeneid* can understand who he is or how he coaches. I give the relevant pages for my students to read -- they are always surprised by Paterno's account of how volunteered to read, outside of class tine, the poem (in Latin!) with his teacher. jtq Prof. John T. Quinn quinn@hope.edu Dept. of Modern & (616) 395-7562 Classical Languages Hope College "The dearness of common things ... Holland, MI 49423 Latin's lovely looks." --Ivor Gurney .