The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-02
FORTUNE SPENT
ON FOOTBALL
Coaches Are an Expensive Part
OF the Game.
BETTER PAID THAN "PROFs'
GOOD MEN CAN DEMAND THEIR
OWN PRICE.

Football coaches have become captains
Of industry during the last few years.
according to a number OF contracts pro-
muigatcd by different colleges of late.
\ man who knows how Ia tsnGle up
rival team with a number of intricate
plays has found that IL paws better 10 be
~ author OF --N-N-Z-f-lI-I' than 10 have
scat in America house OF lords. In
proportion 10 the time me- spends at his
work modern football coach draws from
:hrc' 10 four times The salary Of United
St5tCs senator ana abput half as much as
mo president NJ the country
a football coach spends ON tho average
IWo months i'm looking after an eleven.
For thiS d, is paid an the way FROM
n.5tn 20 Sj.wU and expenses. The coach
Usually gets his meals at the training
6hlr and his railroad fares and OF c- in
tdent"l expenses are paid gut OF The ath-
etie treasury
II is this phase IF high paid profess
ho1ai coaches which has begun TO worry
~ university arth0ritia=. and the queS-
Jon has been raised where u is ali going
. .nd2 Coaching has become more ana
more expensive as the sport has iUcveascI
Itipu has become so keen for good men
thJt "a SUccessru, football general is now
tb.c TO Write his own contract"
Greek and Latin Come Easy.
While an" ploddinT professors Of o0lfti-
ttl economy. pSychoIOgy E-strTr. Greek.
from $1,000 10 5000 fur nine months
york at On" larger universities. III. foot
laH coaches nj NicHig.0. Northwestern.
shlcasr. NiSconSin. minnesota Harvard.
YAH. Princeton and o1iI.r schools ssiii-
gayiE forth in thF fan ana at tb. end OF
-Wo months draw us mach Vo4- uI the
shair.
The published contract with r H. Yosr.
Kno viii look after the yv.Ifare OF she
university OF Michigan p.pskiu artists
sreW attention To the sc;deu -:a rL pro-
tcSSIOnal football NOsU "a Few wears aacc
closed a contract for five yeas az a sal
al Pea.
about $l.Ill a month. $40 week and
about 800 a day, counting tAat Le Will
COX after the team fifsy-Uwo working
Before the announcement from Ann Ar
nor came the report that Harvard had
offered Billy Reid famous as a former
star on the crimson team. 5000 u year
.or five years. which means that he will
be paid about SI09 Il day for trying ID get
me map IN Just seventy minutes of &c
iUal play. He VIII train the team for
other games, but it was the string Of
Yale victories which caused the offer to
DC made.
Others Are Well Paid.
Going down the line there are other
coaches just, as wedl paid as Yost and
Reid. Nothing has been given out how
much Yale pay its graduate coaches.
out II has been common report for years
that prominent players have been called
to New Haven week before some big
game and presented with $1,000 each for
SIX days nuSulnE on the gTlOlrOn-
In the west the University Of Mime
Sofa is supposed 10 pay Coach Williams
even more money than YOst is TO get for
tho next five years. At Madison there
has been talk OF offering Phil King 81. 900
year if ne viii return TO the Badger
stronghold The year in the majority If
eases means two MONTHS At North
western Coach Mccormack drew $1,000 for
eight weeks work and will get $500
next year. At the University of CHI
cago Coach y A. Stagg is in receipt of
something like $4,000. but his work car
ricS him through the entire year, and
he is considered the hardest working
coach in the country. The University OF
Illinois while engaging professional
coaches paid in the ncighbOrhood of
5000 When Foster Sanford coached Co
lumDia he was in receipt of 5000 for
each season. carl Wilitms of the Tnl-
versity Of Pennsylvania is popularity sup
posed 20 have The same income from his
football coaching
luuumerable smaller colleges have pay
rolls for coaches of from $50 to 5000
1t has been estimated that the total
amount OF money paid out for football
coaching in two months would pay tho
yearly expenses of the biggest university
OF the land.