Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-07
COACHES ARE
WORKING HARD
FAMOUS eRlDlR0N INSTRUCT
ORS HAVE BUSY TIMES
No One Foremost Leader Is Credited
With Being the Klngpin Ex-
pert-Au Have National
Regulations

Football as the national colleEe pas
time has long since so firmly intrenched
itself In college as sure means of
working off surplus energy that there
well probably never be any sport that
can take it's place In the curriculum OF
the young man who is looking more Tor
the strenuous side Of an educa tion than
for the valuable or practical part
Admitting this self-evident fact 1t
then becomes of the first Importance to
consider the men who make this sport
what It has become IN college life. and
one does not have to look far before he
sees the football coach as the Leading
man in the game for largely on the
success of his team depends the uues-
tion as to his value in college work and
whether or not he Is worth considering
Many think he should be put upon the
staff of instructors, for he is a far more
important man to majority of the
students of a big university than any
professor In 1t, for he not only exer-
cises great influence on the lives of
the men under him. but draws down
salary often largely In excess of many
of the most learned professors con-
nected with the institution. For these
reasons he is a very important man In
any college.
Great Football Coaches
Just who is the greatest football
coach is a matter of opinion. for each
big college has it's favorite, and that is
the man to swear by. He may mot be
as successful as other coaches, but his
apologists have always the excuse that
he had poor material to work on. or
that the men were sick or did not fol-
low out his instructions.
There are hundreds Of excuses for the
failure of coaches, and under these cir
cumstances it is difficult for a non
college man to pick out the best one.
Among the recognized best are DIR.
Williams and Murphy of Pennsylvania;
George Woodruff of Pennsylvania and
Carlisle; Reed of Harvard; Yost of
Michigan, and Stagg of Chicago Uni
versity.
These are names to conjure with, and
football enthusiasts dream about them
and yearn to even see such mighty men,
and while they hug the whole bunch to
their hearts as an aggregation of won
ders it is doubtful If the most rabid
fiends could pick out one he thought
the best. unless he had been to school
in which some particular one lent his
presence-for real money.
All these men have national repu
tation and it is practically useless to
attempt to give their history, which is
certainly known to all football men.
Reid of Harvard is probably the high
est priced man in the business for he
is said to receive salary of $4,000 per
year, but he is evidently worth all he
is paid. judging from the fact that he is
paid that money and gets his share of
victories with his team.
Yost is probably better known than
any of the coaches. owing to his phe-
nomenal success with the Michigan uni
versty players year after year. His
bunch is spoken of as Yost's Football
Machine, and when 1t is in working or
der 1t certainly does the business with
the regularity of a machine.
His hardest work now is the training.
of team that will beat the Pennsyl-
vania team, the undsputed champions
of the east.
Every one that has heard of Chicago
as a city has heard also of Coach Stagg
of the Chicago University football team
Stage is equally famous as a man who
has turned out some fine football men,
and as a coach who emphasizes the ed
ucational importance of the game on
his men in after life.
George Woodruff may not be so well
known to the average follower of the
game as some of the other coaches,
but he is known to thousands of play
ers as the inventor of the guards
buck" the flying Interference" and
half a dozen other famous schemes for
gaining ground.
He is one of the best strategists that
has ever been connected with the game.
For some years he was coach of the
University of Pennsylvania team. and
last year had charge of the Carlisle In
dians.
Pennsy Is Strong
Last but not least, by any means. IN
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