The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
Football Coaches Are Now Very
Well Paid.
The Modern Instructor Gets a
Princely Salary.
YOST'S PAY S67 A DAY.
There Are Several Others Who
Do as Well.
Minnesota Pays Williams a
Large Sum.

Football coaches have become cap
tains of industry during the last few
years, according to a number of con-
tracts promulgated by different col
leges of late. A man who knows how
to tangle up a rival team with a num-
Der of intricate plays has found that it
pays better to be the author of KY
4-11-44' than to have a seat in the
American house of lords, says a writer
in the Chicago Record Herald. In pro-
portion to the time he spends at his
work. a modern football coach draws
from three to four times the salary of
a United States senator, and about half
as much as the president of the coun-
try.
A football coach spends on the aver
age two months in looking after an
eleven. For this he is paid all the way
from 81 500 to IS. 900 and expenses. The
coach usually gets his meals at the
training table, and his railroad fares
and other incidental expenses are paid
out of the athletic treasury.
1t is this phase of highly paid pro-
fessional coaches which has begun to
worry the university authorities, and
the question has been raised where 1t
is all 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
cessful football general is now able to
write his own contract"
While the plodding professors OF po-
litical economy, psychology, history,
Greek, Latin and other studies usually
draw from $1,000 to $1,000 for nine
months work at the larger universities,
the football coaches at Michigan
Northwestern, Chicago, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
other schools sally gayly forth IN the
fall and at the end of two months draw
as much coin of the realm as head
professor of this or that chair.
The published contract with F. H.
Yost who will look after the welfare
of the University of Michigan pigsl1in
artists, drew attention to the golden
few days ago, closed contract for fiVe
years at a salary of Sc, 500 a year. This
will mean about $1750 month, $43O
a week and about $67 a day, counting
working days.
Before the announcement from Ann
Arbor came the report that Harvard
had offered Billy Reid, famous as a
former star on the crimson team, So
600 year for five years, which means
that he will be paid about 500 a day
for trying to get team together, wh1cn
will wipe Yale off the map in just 40
minutes of actual play. He will train
the team for other games, but 1t was
the string of Yale victories which
caused the offer to be made.
Going down the line there are other
coaches Just as well paid as Yost and
Reid. Nothing has been given out how
much Yale pays it's graduate coaches,
but it has been common report for
wears that prominent players have been
called to New Haven a week before
some big game and presented with ST.
900 each for six days hustling on the
gridiron.
The University of Minnesota is sup
posed to pay Coach Williams even
more than Yost is to get for the next
1--WE years. At Madison there has been
talk of offering Phil King "a 900 year
if he will return to the Badger strong
hold The year in the majority OF
cases means 1.-TWO months" AT North
western Coach Mccormack drew So, 00O
for eight weeks work and will get SO,
500 next year. At theUniversity OF chi
cago Coach A. A. Stage is in receipt OF
something like $4,000, but his work car
ries him through the entire year, and he
! is considered to be the hardest work
ing coach in the country.
The University of Illinois, while en-
pa cling professional coaches, paid in the
neighborhood of 5000. When Foster
Sanford coached Columbia he was in
receipt of 5000 for each season. Carl
| Williams of the University of Penn
sylvania, is popularity supposed to have
the same income from his football
Innumerable smaller colleges have
DayrolIs for coaches of from $500 to
| "a 600. 1t has been estimated that the
total amount of money paid out for