The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
SPORTING NEWS.
Coaches for Football Elevens
Are in Demand.
Three Big Colleges After Teach
ers for Next Season.
is ONE
DIR. HOLSTER May Have to Step
Down and Out.
Illinois and Notre Dame Are
Also Mentioned.

Chicago. Dec Sat least three big
colleges are searching for coaching ma
terial for next season. These are North
western, Illinois and Notre Dame.
Coach Best of Purdue told the writer
that he die. not expect to return to that
school another year and hence that team
will be looking for some one of the star
order to handle the budding football
talent.
Jack Mclean. the old Michigan ath-
lete, has had his name mentioned time
and again for the Illinois job, though
it IS not known what. the authorities are
doing. George HUH. whose word is a
power at Illinois, is an old Englewood
boy and was on Waffle Mccormack s
team at DartmolTth, playing one of the
guards on a team that afterward came
west here and played the c. A. A at
Washington park. Mccormack. there
fore, might be considered as having q
running chance for the place if he cared
to go down into the hot country and
work with Trainer Conibear and Coach
Huff
Mclean created a startling team at
Knox, which was certainly a winner
and which bumped up against some big
teams with much honor. The only tfESng
that hurts him at all in the eyes of col
lege men was the use of France, that
old Michigan guard. Mclean says, how
ever. that France was not in condition
to play the game this year and filed in
more than anything else. He certainly
filed in well at the Northwestern game,
which Mclean says was the best he
played.
Mclean is a hustler of the thoroughly
enthusiastic kind that should put lot
of spirit into any team he coaches.
1t seems practically assured that DR..
c. NJ. HOLSTER will no longer act as head
coach at Northwestern. Whether or not
he will be retired and hold a position
similar to the one occupied by George
Huff at Illinois remains to be seen. The
writer has known of Northwestern and
its athletics for something like twelve
years. AS a result of this period of OBJ
Servance it might be stated that the
real fault at Northwestern is a lack of
real efootball spirit for which bad foot
ball management is responsible. In an
this time there never has been made an
attempt to create germ of college en-
thuSiasm by developing freshmen grad
yates for the team. Annually there has
been the hustle into the city for post
grad men of weight and speed to fill
up in the hope they would bolster up a
championship team. They brought no
enthusiasm with item: they attracted
little undergrad sympathy. because they
were not imbued with college spirit,
which comes from rubbing elbows with
fellows IN the classroom.
Year after year, from the days when
Illegal tactics of using. noncollege men in
the games to the present time when they
are using that other type, the post-grad.
Northwestern has ruthlessly ignored the
student body and college spirit in regard
to football And now this year Capt
F1eager announces Immediately after the
election that he will scour the POSTCARD
schools for material for his team for next
season. The athletic men in control APP
parently have not the courage to throw
championships to the wind for a time,
develop its undergrads and a football
spirit for three or four years in the hopes
that it will then have a school which
will back its team. win or lose, as Wis
consin, Michigan and Illinois do.
Another weakness which appears in
many college teams is a lack of aim as
indicated by their schedules. There is q
helter-skelter method of signing anybody
or anyone for a game long there
promises any money. One is struck by q
remark dropped by DR.. Williams of Min
nesota, that the only way Minnesota ac-
team to beat, as they did Chicago one
year, and working only for that game
disregarding intermediate losses, they KEEP
| on and won. How smooth was Stage
schedule this year and how much smooth
er will it be next season when he ha,
Michigan just where he wants her OF
| Thanksgiving day. with a hard season tt
prepare him for it2
Illinois. Northwestern Indiana, Purdue
Ohio might all be placed on the othel
side of scramblers for football game.
hook or crook football championship o.
a chance to butt in with a claim afte
beating of the big four or five.