The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-02-12
WHITMAN GETS
THE SHORT END
NEW RULES ADOPTED PUT WAL
IA WALLA ATHLETES OUT or
THE GAME.

Whlie the fuieS dnoPted oy me srS-
cent conference of colleges in this city.
which met to clean up athletics, will
be hard in some degree upon every
school concerned, none suffers as much
as does Whitman.
1t is the four year rule which is par
ticularly hard on Whitman. The pre-
paratory department has always been
placed at par with the college in ath-
letlcs and academy students have
never tried to resist the temptation of
making the team when it was possible.
Consequently, the Missionary football
team next year will be made up Of new
material to a great extent.
Philbrook, star tackle and track man,
is doing his last athletic stunts in the
northwest this year. He has played
three years here and at least one before
he came here. Spagle, and Lyman.
Whi.man's crack ends. are also out Of
So is butcher, for years half back oD
the football team and a bright lumi-
nary on the baseball diamond. Old
right is another who will have to-leave
athletics after this year.
These men, all stars. make big hole
in the Whitman lineup and there viii
unquestionably have to be an ingather.
ing Of new material if the breach is
healed. Brubaker. Borleske brothers.
Mathews, Lewis, Cooke. Clemens, Mar
tin and the other members of last:
years team will all be in the game but
heavy line material in decidedly lack
ing
A scheme has been devised whereby
these old has beens" will be used to-
advantage, however. They are all men
of experience, this goes without say.
ing, otherwise they would not be bar
red out
Instead of playing they will help
coach. A head coach will be secured
and the older men who are no longer
in the game win be given chance to
develop along this line. 1t was shown
this year the great advantage there is
in having two seperate coaches for
the first and second teams. The plan
is to have the head coach run the squad
for some time assisted by the four
Year men. who will teach the elements
of the game. Then when the first
team is selected. the boys will take the
leftover material and work up team
which will give the first team all the
experience is wants and will show it
playing which will be different and
therefore better practice than if all
the coaching was done by one man.
That this plan will work there is lit
tie doubt. Whitman must depend up
On coaching and foxy plays if she wins
next year and this would seem one So
luton of the coaching problem. The
boys are all willing to help and no
doubt the system will be inaugurated
next September.
The larger schools are hit as hard as
are the smaller one. Middleton did not
have a prep on his team this year. so
he is not worrying. State college is so
large she doesn't need her preparatory
students and the university has not
been using them, so they say. The two
Oregon schools are not hit nearly as
hard, either, and Whitman's aspirations
to keep in fast company have cost her
more dearly than at first realized.
Thoro i- not hnyyoyar kicIS of anv
kind coming from the college lads.
They all believe the rules are for the
betterment of athletics and though
the local teams are badly demoralized.
the Missionaries will be the last ones
to break them.