Don A. Veller, former star halfback and now assistant coach to Bo McMillin at Indiana University will be head football coach at Florida State University next year.
His appointment as head coach and associate professor of men's physical education at a salary of $5,400 a year was announced yesterday by President Doak S. Campbell.

He will take over the coaching reins from Ed Williamson, who scratched together a green team last fall a few months after men first were admitted to the institution which for 42 years had been Florida State College for women.

The Seminoles in their first year lost all five games of a half filled schedule.

Williamson will return to his former position as instructor in the physical education department.

In announcing the appointment of Veller to the head coaching position, President Campbell said FSU will "go beyond" the so called NCAA "sanity code" for curbing commercialism in college athletics.

"We're going to do our best to be strictly amateurs," Dr. Campbell said.

Before returning to Indiana University as assistant coach, Veller was head football coach and director of physical education at Hanover College, Indiana.

The 36 year old coach, prior to army service as chief of the information and education division of the Third Air Force was for seven years head football coach at the Elkhart, Indiana high school, where his teams won more than 80 percent of their games and several conference championships.

While a student at Indiana University, he participated in basketball, wrestling, track, baseball and football. In 1935, his final year, he received the university's Balfour award for the outstanding scholastic and athletic record and the Big Ten conference medal for proficiency in scholarship and athletics.

He received his master's degree from Indiana in 1938 and now is a candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree from the same institution. He will continue his studies at FSU.