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counting that he viii look after the team
fifty-two working days

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fifty-two working days.
Before the announcement from Ann Ar
Dor came the report that Harvard had of
fered BILLY" Reid, famous as a former star
on the crimson team, 5000 a year for five
years, which means that he will be pail
about 500 a day for trying to get a team
together which will 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.
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 1t has been
common report for years that prominent
players have been called to New Haven
week before some big game and presented
with s1,o0o each for six days hustling on
the gridiron.
In the west the University of Minnesota
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 $4,000 a year If he will
return to the Badger stronghold. The year
in the majority of means two
months At Northwestern Coach McCor-
mack drew 5000 for eight weeks work and
will get $500 next year. AT the Univer-
sity 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 hardest-working
coach in the country. The University Of
Illinois. while engaging professional
coaches. paid in the neighborhood of 81, 800
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 foot ball coaching.
Innumerable smaller colleges have pay
rolls for coaches of from $500 to 5000. 1t
has been estimated that the total amount OF
money paid out for foot ball coaching in
two months would equal the yearly ex-
penses of the biggest university in the land.
Minor Leagues Covering" Players.
President Johnson says that the American
in future will prevent certain minor league
clubs from covering up players so that
they can neither be drafted nor purchased
by other clubs. A case in point. is that Of
the Brooklyn club, which all told has fifty
four players on it's rolls. Edward Hanlon,
the Brooklyn manager. Is also the leading
club. HanfOn last fall placed all the Balti-
more players on Brooklyns drafting list.
so none of them could be secured by othar
major league clubs When the season opens,
therefore. Baltimore will have the same
men who played there last year, for
Brooklyn will turn them all back with
possibly one or two exceptions. George
Tebeau. the big man in the American AS
ISOLATION, has been accused of similar
methods, which has caused considerable i'll
feeling. VIII the National League which
has seen fit to champion the cause Of the
minor leagues. accept a proposition from
the American League that will kill this
practice by an amendment to the National
agreement? In other words, will the Ma
beau who have much influence in minor
league circles?