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i 1 r I J E i f t , , I Fisher Succeeds Olsen As Wildcat Cage Coach EVANSTON, 111., June 17 UP.— Waldo Fisher, former all-conference football and basketball performer, was named today as head basketball coach at Northwestern University. Fisher will replace Harold "Ole" Olsen, who upon the advice of doctors has been forced to give up active coaching. Olsen, who came to the Wildcats two years ago following the resignation of Dutch Lonborg, became ill last win- ter in the midst of the cage season and has been confined to the hospital since that time. Ted Payseur, director of athletics at Northwestern, said "we regret very much that illness will not permit coach Olsen to continne but we feel extremely fortunate in being able to replace him with Waldo Fisher." Fisher, a native of Fargo, N. D., came to Northwestern in 1924 where he starred for three years on the football and basketball teams. He won all Big Ten honors as an end in 1926, the year the Wildcats captured their first Western Conference championship. He captained the basketball team in his junior and senior years and was named to the Northwestern coaching staff after he graduated. He was made assistant basketball coach in 1935.
