would keep Pool despite the controversy, but after four of the team's five assistant coaches announced they were resigning, Pool quit on December 17, 1954, ending his Rams' head coaching career with a 23–10–2 mark. Soon after Sid Gillman was hired as Pool's successor, erroneous reports surfaced that Pool would again be a Rams' assistant. Instead, he served as an assistant coach for the next two years in the annual College All-Star Game, and also served his first stint as a scout. On December 27, 1956, he headed north when he was hired as head coach of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, earning the biggest coaching contract in league history up to that time. When Bob Waterfield was named head coach of the Rams in January 1960, he named Pool, who had been running a Toronto travel agency, as an assistant two months later. The two had worked together a decade earlier in fashioning the team's potent offense, and Waterfield had assisted Pool during the latter's 1957 training camp in Toronto. Despite the chemistry between the two, the Rams managed only a 4–7–1 record, then followed that with a 4–10 mark. During the latter part of the 1961 NFL season, another player revolt against Pool began when complaints about his status and coaching methods surfaced. Ram tackle Frank Varrichione and Joe Marconi charged that Pool was really running the team, comparing him to a slave-driver, and that the team's offense was dated. When Waterfield was let go midway through the 1962 NFL season, having compiled a 9–24–1 record, Pool and the remainder of the staff finished out the season under interim head coach Harland Svare. When Svare was retained after the season, Pool became a scout for the team. Later life Pool later helped start the league's first scouting combine, Quadra, and serve as a talent scout for the next few decades. In 1964, he moved from Southern California to a ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. He died of congestive heart failure in Mariposa, California. Head coaching record References 1915 births 2000 deaths American football ends Chicago Bears players Chicago Rockets coaches Miami Seahawks coaches Los Angeles Rams coaches Los Angeles Rams scouts San Jose State Spartans football coaches Stanford Cardinal football players Toronto Argonauts coaches Junior college football coaches in the United States People from Paso Robles, California Players of American football from California United