The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-30
HI: WILL Be MISSED.
John II. Putnam, Coach Of
Tech Foot Ball
Team.

John H. Putnam, coach of Tech foot
ball team, will be missed in today's
practice.
With the exception of a single day,
when he remained away on account of
sickness of his father, today will be
the first for weeks that Putnam has
not been seen on Bliss field. The coach
was much more faithful than the play
ers, being on the field several times
ready to give instructions and not a
man came out. He took exceptional
pride in the team and in his work, and
the failure of the men to come out
aroused him in no small degree, At
ter a failure for which there was no
cause except that it had been the GUS
tom in past years not to practice on
Monday after a game had been play
ed the previous Saturday, Coach Put
nam cut loose and said things which
the players didn't like. But they came
out after that. Stringent measures
We're necessary, and
COACH PUTNAM ADOPTED THEM.
The excellence of the Tech team is a
glowing tribute to Putnams ability as
coach. When he began with them he
| had a considerable amount of raw ma
| terial And the material was not
| what could be called select. The men
were understood, compared with the
| teams with whom they would have to
play. Not having weighty men. Coach
| Putnam deserves great credit for de-
veloping such a good team as Tech
| has shown itself to be, He drilled
them thoroughly, insisting on fast
work and insisted so strongly that he
| obtained it. That quality alone has
| earned for Tech the reputation Of be-
| ing an exceptionally good team for
| light one It's work against the heavy
| Worcester Academy team and its
! strong defense against the weighty
Holy Cross team show what degree
of excellence the light men attained
under Mr.. Putnam's directions.
! Mr.. Putnam is an expert in both foot
| ball and base ball He was left tackle
on the Dartmouth eleven of 1895 and
| 1897, which latter team won the cham
! pionship of the triangular league in
! hollow fashion 1t defeated Amherst
! Sc to 0, and Williams "a to 0. Mr.. Put
nam was one of the
STRONGEST PLAYERS ON THE
TEAM
| After leaving Dartmouth he coach
ed the Perrys school team of Rut-
| land, VT, for week only with the re-
suit that it won it's game with Mid
dlebury college, it being the first and
only time in the history of the school
that its foot ball team beat Middlebury
college eleven.
In the spring of 1897 Mr.. Putnam
| played ball with the Dartmouth team
and he has played in Webster for two
seasons. He recently received an of
fer to play with the New Yorks of the
| National league with whom he would
undoubtedly make a success, as he is
a big fellow and plays ball hard. He is
/ a good hitter and fine fielder.
Mr. Putnam will coach Cushing AGA
denny foot ball eleven for the remand
er of the season. He will probably re-
tire from the base ball field for keeps
| although he will doubtless give his at
tention to foot ball every fall He is
engaged in the florist business at hi:
home in Baldwinsville, which he pre-
fers to base ball. In the fall he car
devote some time to foot ball Aftet
the success he attained coaching ant
developing a light team like Worceste
Tech, he will not be without a team t
coach for many years.