Edward Patrick “Slip” Madigan was an innovator and motivator who turned the football program at a small East Bay college into a national sensation in the 1920s and ’30s.
Madigan, known to all by his childhood nickname of “Slip,” compiled a record that should put him in the pantheon of great college coaches, argues author Dave Newhouse, who has written “The Incredible Slip Madigan: The Flamboyant Coach Who Modernized Football,” a book that examines the career and remarkable accomplishments of a forgotten legend.
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