The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
COCHEMS WILL TAKE
HIS. NEW J0B At ONCE
Former Wisconsin Player and
Coach Begins st. Louis
Work This Week.

st. Louis, Feb. 10.-E. B. Cochems,
who has figured prominently as Wis
consin university football player and
athlete, and later as coach, will take
charge Of the athletic teams Of the st.
Louis university, and will arrive tomor-
row. Cochems had signed seasons
contract to assume charge in Septem-
Der, but the recent resignation of Tom
my Dowd left the institution without
a coach. -- - -
The university authorities asked
Ccchems if he would come Immediately
to take charge of the track team and
prepare for the big indoor athletic meet
March II, at the Coliseum. He wired
his acceptance.
The acquisition of Cochems as athletic
director should work for the best in
terests of the athletics of the univer-
sitv, and should put the success of the
coming, meet beyond shadow of a
doubt. In the words of Phil King,
"Cochems is one of the best all-around
athletes that Wisconsin has ever turned
out He is the only man since 1895
who has won three "W So at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin,; namely, for foot
ball, baseball and track athletics.
lie WAS captain w lScOuSlu DdSe..
| ball team in 1899. He played four years
on Wisconsin s football team, two years
at end and two years at halfback. Be-
sides playing two years on the base
ball team, he was a member of the track
| team for three years, winning points in
the western intercollegiate meet in the
! shotput.
In addition to all these qualifications,
he held the university handball cham
pionship for two years, and has also
done considerable gymnasium work Of
a general character, and is capable af
instructing to large extent in this
branch of physical culture.
| Cochems' influence on the athletic
| candidates of st. Louis university ID
bound to be fruitful, in more than an
| athletic way. In his course at Wiscon-
sin he was a student of unusual talents
and of marked industry. Mrs. Adams,
wife of former President Adams of the
university, placed Cochems picture in
the university gymnasium. for his all
around athletic ability in conjunction
with excellence in scholarship. He took
part in the Wisconsin semipublie de-
bate, and was a joint debater of the
university.
: He has had experience as a football
coach for four years, in prominent 1nstl-
buttons, in which time he lost only three
games. One was while he was coach OF
, the Clemson college of South Carolina,
/ and lost to Vanderbilt university for the
: championship of the south. His most
important position as coach was prob
: ably at Wisconsin university last season.
a In the early part of the 1905 season
: he was assistant to Coach King, and
when that instructor, was absent, Coch-
ems was left in entire charge, and it is
said that had he taken charge of the
team a week earlier, Wisconsin would
have beaten Chicago. He made the ALL
) Western team three times, twice as end
and one season as halfback.
Before accepting his present position
: with ST. Louis university, he had re-
|. ceived fattering offers from the State
i university, st. Louis university, Glenn
kson college of South Carolina, and No
!, tire Dame university, but he preferred
I to come to st. Louis, as he said:
est Louis university's future is the
biggest"
He comes well recommended by Phil
King, coach of Wisconsin university
football, track and baseball teams; g.
II. Fitzpatrick, former graduate mana
ger; ]. G. Elsom, director of physical
! culture: o. J. Bandelin, former coach
n of the baseball department, and r. M.
!. Bashford a director of the Athletic
IS association for more than ten years.
ei Cochems' first work will be to pre-
il pare the st. Louis university track
g team for the. indoor meet at Kansas
n City, March ?. He viii also assist
.e Charlie Stephens in directing the in,
door meet at the Coliseum, March IL.