The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-21
from La Crosse. Up to last night their
efforts had been without avail.
VARSITY ALUMNI DIVIDED
On the Plan for Athletic Coaching
for Next Season.

On the Plan for Athletic Coaching
for Next Season.
The meeting of the university alumni
in the Board of Trade rooms last night
| proved to be decidedly interesting one,
and for a time at least IT could not be
said that the alumni of the institution
over the river were lacking in spirit. The
meeting was called to order by Vice Pres
ident Louis Schwager, and the first thing
to come before the association was the
election of officers for the ensuing year.
A nominating committee reported back
the following officers: President. Fred B.
Snyder; first vice president, Louis
Schwager; second vice president, ]. E..
OBrien; third vice president. w. A. Nc
Intyre; secretary, Theodore M. Knappen;
treasurer. Bert Loye; members of the ex-
ecutive committee for three years, w. G.
Leary and ]. M. Harrison. The election
Of the alumni members on the university
board of athletic control was referred to
the board of directors.
resolution was then introduced which
touched on the coaching of the past sea-
son and which was unanimously carried.
The resolution read as follows: Resolved,
That the University Alumni Athletic as
ISOLATION tender to Mr.. w. c. Leary and
his assistant coaches its heartiest thanks
and sincerest appreciation in approval of
their untiring efforts and work In bringing
the standard of play to the high stage
exhibited the past year by the football
team, and, through the splendid work
of the coach and his assistants encourag-
ing and raising to high point Of enthu-
siasm the university spirit"
But when the chair announced that the
association would proceed to discuss the
system of coaching to be adopted at the
varsity for next fall, it was soon very
evident that the meeting was very much
divided.
The main arguments In favor of an
outside director, as pointed out by Prof
Jones, were that it would give the var
| sity man who would put In his whole
| time at athletics and give a permanent
system. This. the professor thought, was
| necessary, in order to successfully COM
pete with Chicago and Wisconsin. where
| similar systems were in vogue. Prof. Nc
! MILAN, Byron H. Timberlake, Geo. Bel
| den, c. H. Van Camper and others ex-
pressed their opinions on the advisabil1ty
| of the change, and often these opinions
were quite forcibly put forth. Those who
| opposed the change claimed that 1t vir-
| tually meant going back on the alumni,
| and turning the direction of athletics
| over to an outsider. and this, they
! thought, would be a very dangerous
thing, as past experience has shown Aft
| er an hour or so or animated discussion
| the following resolution was introduced:
| Resolved. That this association favors
| the adoption of permanent athletic d.
rector, but that alumni coaching be fos-
| tered and continued as an aid This was
| from the side who favored the securing
| of Dr. Knipe, of Iowa The opposition
| Immediately came forward with subst1-
| tute which provided for the establishment
! of an athletic dictatorship, but which was
| to be filled by an alumnus. This was fol-
| lowed by some parliamentary juggling.
and at last the chair was able to get an
| opportunity to put the first subsd ute mo-
| ton. and it was found that the vote was
| a tie. The chair refused to settle the