The Washington times., 1905-01-01
LARGE SAL ARIES
PAID TO COACHES
Golden Era for Gridiron
Instructors at Present.
VIRGINIA LEADS THE SOUTH
Yost Is Not the Highest Salaried.
Williams, OF Pennsylvania,
Has That Honor.
VIRGINIA LEADS THE SOUTH

F'ootbaH coaches have become cap
fains 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 a number
OF intricate plays has found that it pays
better to be the author OF x-y-z-4-11-44
1han to have a seat in Americas house
or lords. In proportion 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 Presi-
dent of the country.
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 5000 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.
Coaching More Expensive.
1t is this phase of highly paid profess
sionai coaches which have begun to
worry the university authorities. and
the question has been raised where is
1t is all going to end. Coaching has be-
come more and more expensive as the
:
rivalry. and the competition has become
SO keen for good men that a successful
football general is now able to write
his own contract.
While the rlodding professors of po-
liticai economy. psychology. history.
Greek, Latin and other studies usually
draw from 1900 to $1,000 for nine
months work at the larger universi-
ties. the football coaches at Michigan,
Northwestern, Chicago, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Harvard. Yale, Princeton and
ether schools sally gayly forth in the
fall and at the end of two months
draw as much coin Of the realm as a
head professor of this or that chair.
Yost, of Michigan
The published contract with F. H.
Yost, who viii look after the welfare OF
1.-The University Of Michigan pigskin art
lists, drew attention to the golden era
of professional football Yost a few
Z days ago closed a contract for five years
at salary of s.. 800 a year. This viii
mean about 81, $50 month, $50 a week
and about $67 q day, counting that he
will look after the team fifty-two work
ing days.
Before the announcement from Ann
Arbor came the report that Harvard had
offered Billy Reid, famous as a former
star or the Crimson team, s. 900 year
for five years, which means that he win
be paid about S100 day for trying to get
a team together which win wipe Yale
off the map in just seventy minutes OF
actual play. He will train the team for
other games, but it was the string of
Yale victories which caused the offer
to be made.
Stages Work Hard.
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 its graduate coaches.
bat Il has been common report for years
that prominent players have been called
to New Haven a week before some big
game and to them presented LOCO each
for six days hustling on the gridiron.
In the West the University of Mime
sofa is supposed.to pay Coach Williams
even more than Vest is TO get for the
next five years. AT Madison there has
been talk of offering Phil King 81. coo u
year If ne will return to the Badger
stronghold The year in the ma jority
OF cases means two MOI tbs. At North
western Coach Mccormick drew So. 900
for eight weeks work, and Will get s., 800
next year.
Stages Work Hard
At the University Of Chicago, Coach
A A. Stagg is in receipt of something
like 5000. but his work carries him
through the entire year and he is con-
sidered the hardest working coach in
the country. The University of Illinois,
while engaging professional coaches.
paid in the neighborhood of 50, 900. When
Foster Sanford coached Columbia. he
was in receipt of 5000 for each season.
Last year he was paid 81, 500 by Vir-
einia, which was the highest salary ever
received by Southern coach. Carl
Williams, OF the University of PennsyI-
vansa. is popularity supposed to have
the same income from his football
coaching.
Innunerable smaller leagues have pay
rolls for coaches OF from $500 to SO, 600. 1t
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
IN the land