Florida Hurricane," referring to the hundreds of World War I
Vets who were killed in Florida.

The 1936 Loyola Football season was the last winning season for
Coach Lieb. That year the team went 6-3-0 and Tom Wilson,
started every game. More and more it was becoming harder and
harder for the small school in Del Rey to recruit players. Big-
Ball, more established schools such as Southern Cal, UCLA and
Santa Clara, who “were granting full football scholarships,
including room and board, like plenary indulgences,” had built
large, dominant programs and Loyola, did not have that kind of
budget.
Although it is not widely known, many of players on the 1930’s
Loyola squads were recruited by Lieb from his home state of
Minnesota. Few were granted scholarships, so Lieb figured out a
way to devote funds, (with the Jesuit’s approval), from the
immensely popular hockey program gate at the Hollywood Polar
Palace, (a team he also coached and many of his football players
played on), and devote those monies for the players tuition,
books and room and board.
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