Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-27
COLLEGE COACHES
ARE WELL PAID
ATHLETIC DIRECTORS RECEIVE
FAT SALARIES
Faculty Members Enter Protest at Re-
muneratlon rendered Those Who
Teach Young Idea How to Star
In Out of Door World

If the athletic reform policies deter
mined upon by the leading universities
Of the country are put into operation
next fall there will be q very decloeo
retrenchment both east and west IN
the salaries paid to football coaches.
Heretofore coaches have been paio
enormous salaries, not infrequently ex-
ceeding the amount received by fuil
professors. And as the football coach
works for only two months In the year
there is good ground for the bitterness
with which the faculty men have as
sailed the princely salaries paid to the
football coaches
Probably the highest salaried football
coach in the country Is w. L. Relo'
IT.. OF Harvard. Reid last year re-
ceived $4,000 from the Harvard Athletic
association for his two months coach-
ing, and then it was admitted he re-
celved $500 from other sources so
that his salary was $4,000 year, al
most as much as President Eliot him
self received.
The only other coach who ever re-
ceived this amount was Foster San
ford, the old Yale player, when he was
coach at Columbia. But Columbia 8
authorities refused to sanction this
enormous salary after year or two
and Sanford had to go.
highest salary usually paid to a foot
ball coach is $500. This is the amount
which Coach Yost receives from Micht-
gan. It is also the amount that Coach
Williams of Minnesota and Coach stage
of Chicago are thought to receive. But
the latter men earn their salaries more
certainly than does Mr.. Yost, for they
coach other teams besides football,
their whole time virtually being given
I, owls n
the other.
Ranch Owner Coaches
It is harder to estimate the amount
of money which is paid out for coach
ing at Yale, Pennsylvania and Prince
ton At the three institutions the
coaching is in charge of board OF
graduates, many of whom are supposed
to be amateurs and get only their ex-
penses. There are, of course, excep-
tions to this in which a coach is paid
not only his expenses but the salary
he loses because of his absence from
his business.
1t is probable that the coaching of
each of these institutions costs in the
neighborhood of $4,000. 1t is understood
that Coach Warner of Cornell receives
about $35O0 a year for coaching the
football and baseball teams. Probably
the only university which got its coach
ing in football a year ago was Column
bal. Here w. R. Morley refused to take
a cent for his work. He was wealthy
ranch owner in New Mexico and didn't
need the money.
Within recent years there has been a
notable increase in the salaries paid
out to track trainers. 1t is likely that
Mike Murphy of the University of
Pennsylvania gets the biggest salary
of any man in his position, either east or
west Murphy not only coaches the
Quaker track men, but the football
players as well and is worth the $4,000
he is said to receive.
Michigan Pays Well
Trainer Keene Fitzpatrick of the
University of Michigan is close rival
to Murphy. He receives salary of
$4,000 from the state of Michigan and
like amount from the Wolverine Ath-
letic association. Fitzpatrick is quite
as skillful in the handling of athletes
as the Pennsylvania coach and Michi-
gan never regrets the salary it pays
out to him.
An analysis of a salary of $500 paid
to a football coach for two months
work brings out some astonishing facts.
This means the payment Of $3.50 a
month or $430 a week. Or, carried still
further, the sum of $67 a day is the
income derived by man like Yost.
During the remaining ten months in
the year the football coach is enabled
to earn money any way he sees fit, so
that his salary for an entire year is
enough to make him independent in a
short while.
Ithacans Not Flush
OF all the coaches in the east it is
likely that those at Cornell are the
most poorly paid. This is due in a
large measure to the necessity, since
the Ithacans are not very flush with
money. They are situated so far from
a large city that their receipts from
games are not so large as those of
their rivals.
1t was because of his small salary
that Charles Courtney, undoubtedly
the greatest rowing coach this country
has seen, resigned his position. 1t is
said that Courtney is receiving a small
er salary than the coaches at Pennsyl-
vania, Harvard and Yale. 1t is also
true that Trainer Moalkley, whose track
team has twice won the Intercollegiate
championship, receives a smaller salary
than any of his rival coaches.
The more success Cornell has in ath-
letics the more certain does it become
that the Ithacans will have to pay
their coaches bigger salaries in order