Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-12
SALARIES PAID TO
ATHLETIC COACHES

II the athletic reform policies determined
upon by the leading universities Of the
country are put into operation next fall
there will be a very decided retIenchment
both east and west in the salaries paid to
football coaches. Heretofore coaches have
been paid enormous salaries, not infre-
quently exceeding the amount received by
full 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 assailed the
princely salaries paid to the football
coaches.
Probably the highest salaried football
coach in the country is w. 7. Reid, jr., OF
Harvard. Reid last year received $500
from the Harvard Athletic Association for
his two months coaching, and then it was
admitted he received 500 from other
sources, SO that his salary was 1900 year,
almost as much as President Eliot himself
received The only other coach who ever
received this amount was Foster Sanford,
the old Yale player, when he was coach at
Columbia. But Columbia's authorities re-
fused to sanction this enormous salary after
a wear or two and Sanford had to CO.
Now with the exception of Reid the high
est salary usually paid to football coach
Is $500. This is the amount which Coach
Yost receives from Michigan. 1t is also the
amount that Coach Williams of Minnesota
and Coach Stage of Chicago are thought to
receive. But the latter men earn their sal
ary more certainly than does Mr.. Yost, for
they coach other teams besides football,
their whole time virtually being given up to
Goa ching from one years end to the other.
II is harder to estimate the amount of
money which is paid out for coaching at
Yaie Pennsylvania and Princeton. AT these
three institutions the coaching Is in charge
of a board of graduates, many OF whom are
supposed to be amateurs and get only their
expenses There are of course, exceptions
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 at each OF these
institutions costs In the neighborhood of
81 600 1t is understood that Coach warner
of Cornell receives about S3,oOo year TOT
coaching the football and base ball teams.
Probably the only university which got Its
coaching In foot bali a year ago was Co
clumbia Here w. r. Morley refused to
take a cent for his work He was wealthy
ranch owner in New Mexico and dldnt need
the money.
notable increase in the salaries paid out 70
track trainers. 1t Is likely that MIKE
Murphy of the University or PennsyiVaiiia
gets the biggest salary OF any man Ia li1s
position, either east or west. Murphy not
only coaches the Quaker track men, put ne
has charge of the physical condlt onlng ol
the football players. as well ana is worth
the $4,000 he is said to receive. 'Tfalner
Keene Fitzpatrick of the University OF
Michigan is a close rival to Murphy. He
receives a salary of 81 600 from the state
of Michigan and like amount from the
Wolverine Athletic Association. Fitzpat-
rick is quite as skilfull in the handling OF
athletes as the Pennsylvania coach and
Michigan never regrets the salary 1t pays
out to him.
An analysis of a salary of $500 paid to
foot ball coach for two months work
brings out some astonishing facts This
means the payment of $1,150 a month OF
s43O a week. Or carried still further, tine
sum of s67 a day is the income derived by
a man like Yost. During the remaining ter
months in the year the foot ball coach Is
enabled to earn money any way he sees mt
so that his salary for entire year Is
enough to make him independent in shori
while.
OF all the coaches in the east IL Is likely
that those at Cornell are the most poorly
paid. This is due in large measure tC
the necessity, since the Ithacans are no.
very flush with money. They are situated
| 30 far from large city that their receipts
| from games are not so large as those OF
| salary that Charles Courteney, undoubtedly
| the greatest rowing coach this country has
SEEN resigned his position. 1t is said tina
Courtney Is receiving smaller salary thar
| the coaches at Pennsylvania. Harvard ant
| Yale. Is also true that Trainer Moakley
| whose track team has twice won the in
| tercollegiate championship, receives
| smaller salary than any Of his riva
| coaches. The more success Cornell has II
| athletics the more certain does 1t become
| that the Ithacans win have to pay thei
coaches bigger salaries in order to keel
f. them.