The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-09
SPORTING NEWS.
Great Money Now Made in Foot
ball Coaching.
Experts in This Line Better
Paid Than U. s. Senators.
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
Spends on Average Two Months
Looking After Eleven.
The Contract OF YOst Shows
Abvut So, 500 for Each Year.

Cleveland, Jan. 9.-Footban coaches
have become captains of industry dur
ing the last few years, according to a
number of contracts promulgated by
different colleges of late.
A man who knows how to tangle up
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'' than
to have a seat in Americas congress.
In proportion to the time he spends at
his work a modern football coach draws
from three to four times the salary of
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. Fo rthis he paid all the way
from $1,000 to $4,000 and expenses. The
coach usually gets mis- 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 profess
sional coaches which have begun to
worry the university authorities, and
the question has been raised where is it
all going to end? Coaching has be-
sport has increased in popularity and
rivalry, and the competition has be-
come so keen for good men that
successful football general is now able
to write his own contract"
While the plodding professors Of PC
litical economy, psychology, history,
Greek, Latin and other studies usually
draw from $4,000 to $1,000 for nine
months work at the larger universities,
the football coaches at Michigan, North
western, Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other
schools sally gayly forth in the fall
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much coin of the realm as ahead pro-
lessor of this or that chair.
The published contract with F. H.
Yost, who will look after the welfare of
the University of Michigan pigskin ar
lists, drew attention to the golden era
of professional football. Yost few
days ago closed a contract for five
years at a salary of SO, 500 year. This
will mean about $1.750 a month, $3.50
week and about SCI a day, counting
that he will look after the team SO
working days.
Before the announcement from Ann
Arbor came the report that Harvard
had offered BILLY Reid, famous as
former star on the crimson team, $4,000
a year for five years, which means that
he will be paid about 800 a day for
trying to get team together which
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 its graduate coaches, !
but it has been common report for
years that prominent players have been
called to New Haven q week before
some big game and presented with
81. 900 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 Yost is to get for the
next five years. At Madison there has
been talk of offering Phil King 81, 900 a
year if he will return to the Badger
stronghold. The year in the majority
of cases means 1.-TWO months" At
Northwestern, Coach Mccormack drew
So 600 for eight weeks work. and will
get SO, 500 next year At the University
of Chicago, Coach A. A. Stage is in re-
ceipt of something like $4,000, but his
work carries him through the entire
year. and he is considered to be the
The University of Illinois, while engag-
ing professional coaches, paid in the
of 81, 300. When Foster
Sanford coached Columbia he was in
receipt of So, 900 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
81, 900. 1t has been estimated that the
total amount of money paid out for
football coaching in two months would
equal the yearly expenses of the big
gest university in the land.