Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-31
Money Given for Two Months
Work Would Run Big Uni.
ycrsity a Year
GOOD PRICE FOR F. H. YOST.
While Mere Professors Usually Draw
Bat $4,000 for Nine Months Work,
A Coach Gets About s. 600.

Football coaches have become cap
tains Of industry during the last few
years. according TO a number OF con-
tracts promulgated by different colleges
OF late A man who knows how to
tangle up a rival team with number
OF intricate plays has found that It pays
better TO De the author Of 'N-y-z-4-ll-
A" than 10 have seat In Americas
house o fords. In proportion to the
Tina he spends ut his work q modern
football coach draws from three to four
times the salary Of a United States sem
ator and about half as much as the
president OF the country.
A football coach spends on the aver
age two months In looking after an
eleven. For this he s paid all the way
from 81, 500 To $4,000 and expenses. The
coach usually gets HIS meals M the
training table and his railroad fare ana
other Incidental expenses are paid out
Oh the athletic treasury,
II Is this phase Of highly paid profess
flonal coaches which have begun to
worry the university authorities ana
the question has been raised whcre Is
II al going TO end? Coaching has be-
come more and more expensive as the
spOrt has increased IN popularity and
rivalry, and the competition has be-
come so keen for good men that sue
ccsstul football general Is now able 10
'writc his own contract
While the ploddlng professors Of po-
Utica! economy psychology history
Greek. Latin and other studies usually
draw from 5000 TO $1,000 for nine
months work at the larger universities,
the football coaches at Michigan, North
western Chicago, Wisconsin Minneso-
tai Harvard. Yale, Princeton and 9th
or schools sally gayly forth IN the tall
and at the end OF two months draw aBt
much coin Of the realm as a mead pro-
lessor Of this or that chair
The published contract with t. II.
Yost. who will look after the welfare OF
tho University of Michigan plgskln ar
lists drew attention to the golden era OF
professional football Nost a Few days
ago closed contract for tlve years az
salary OF $500 a year. This VIII mean
about Sl,750 a month. $3.50 week ana
about S67 a day counting that ne VIII
look after the team iiity-two WORKING
days.
Before the announcement from Ann
Arbor came the report that Harvard
had offered "BIlly' Reid, famous as q
former star on the crimson team, SoOOO,
a year for FIVE years, which means that
he win be paid about 500 a day for
trying 10 get team together Whlcn
viii wipe Yale of the map IN Just ~
minutes Of actual play, lie VIII tram
the team for other games, but II was
the string OF Yale victories when
the offer 20 be made.
Going down the line there are other
coaches Just as We'll paid as fost ana
Reid. Nothing has been given out how
much Yale pays It's graduate coaches
but II has been common report for years
that prominent players have been called
10 New Haven a week before some big
game and presented with $1,000 each
for six days hustling on the gridlron'
In the west the University OF Mime
sofa Is supposed 20 pay Coach WI
lams even more than Nost Us to get Tor
the next FIVE years. AT Madison there
has been talk OF offering Phil King So
600 "a year IN ne VIII return 10 lle phu-
ger stronghold The year IN the ma
jofity Of cases means "pwo months
lAa aNorth Western Coach Mccormack
drew 5000 for eight weeks work and
Will get $500 next year. AT the uni
OF Chicago Coach A. A. Stagg
IL IN receipt OF something like $4,000,
but his work carries him through the
entire year. and he Is considered to be
the hardest working coach IN the coun-
Try. The University Of Illinois, while
engaging professional coaches paid In
the nelghborhood OF S3000 When Fos-
ter Sanford coached Columbia he was
ln receipt OF 5000 for each season. Carl
Williams OF the University OF Pennsyl-
vania is popularity supposed to have the
same income from his football coaching
Innumerable smaller colleges have
pay rolls for coaches Of from $500 TO
s., 900. II has been estimated that the
total amount OF money paid out for
football coaching in two months would
pay the yearly expenses Of the biggest
university Of the land,