Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-17
YALE PREFERS
PROFESSIONALS
VOLUNTEER COACHES NOT IN
FAVOR
Old eli Has Attained Success by Pay
ina Her Athletic Directors.
Baseball Coach Lush
to BE Retained

Special to The Herald.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 16.-I
There is a rumor at Yale that the re-
port of the committee that has been In
vestigating athletics for Harvard will
recommend the abolition Of professional
coaches.
According to the report Harvard will
ask Yale to do away with the coaching
system that has been in vogue at Newl
Haven for many years and agree to-
have all teams i'm future coached by
volunteers only. Even IL the rumor isl
true 1t is doubtful il Yale will counten-
ance such a move.
Eli teams have for years been coached
by professionals as far as the major
sports are concerned and this year even
the minor pastimes have been in charge
of paid employees. At Harvard, on the
other hand, professional coaches are in
the minority.
Professionals Successful
Professional coaching has proven a
decided success at Yale. Not only are
the Eli track and baseball teams and
the crew in the hands of the profess
sonal trainers but this year the
hockey, swimming, basketball and even
the golf and fencing teams were
coached by professionals. The work of
these men has been the principal cause
of the satisfactory showing of the vari-
Gus Eli teams.
Take hockey as an example. The
New Haven institution took to the ice
at the beginning of the year with a
very poor team. In the first inter-
collegiate battle the Yale seven was
defeated by Dartmouth.
A week later the Eli players had
great difficulty in defeating Columbia,
tailenders in the race for the cham
pionship. At that period Tom Howard
was called in to look after the Eli
team.
Under the efficient coaching of the
old Wanderer star Yale was whipped
into some sort of form and although
1t was defeated by both Harvard and
Princeton the New Haven team put
| up a surprisingly good showing, con-
sidering the men with whom Howard
had to work.
So successful was the coaching of
the old Wanderer player that it is
almost certain he will be re-engaged
next season as head coach of the Yale
seven.
The swimming team has recently Sc
cured professional coach He is Tom
O'Callag CHAN, the championship diver.
1t is too early as yet to state what
effect his work will have upon the
Yale swimmers, but whether he is a
success or not it is practically certain
that either OCallaghan or some other
expert will look after the team next
year.
AS far as rowing is concerned it is
said that John Kennedy has practi-
cally a life position at Yale. 1t is his
| one ambition to be able to work with
material that is worthy of the college.
Heretofore he has been handicapped
| by the lack of suitable material This
| season things are not much better, but
| there is a chance that in a year or
two the Yale rowing coach may be
able to show just how good he is.
Will Retain Lush
Billy Lush, the professional coach of
the baseball team, has a contract that
has two years to run. 1t is generally
| believed that at the expiration of the
contract Lush will be re-engaged.
Besides looking out for the baseball
team, Lush has had the basketball
squad under his supervision for the last
year and will regularly handle this
sport at New Haven in the future.
John Mack has also an unexpired con-
tract to carry out, and for at least an
other year the track team will be in
his able hands. Although he has very
poor chances of making good this year,
Mack is not at all discouraged, believ-
ing that in another year he will have a
! record-breaking squad.
Mack will, as usual, keep a watchful
eye on the football team next fall, al
though this sport is under the control
of a graduate board.
The golf team has been under the
instruction of Robert d. Pryde for some
little time. He is a capable profession
al who has developed such players as
e. M. Byers, Ellis Knowles, Bruce
Smith and others. In fact, practically
every Yale team Of Importance is now
in the hands of a professional coach.