The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-10-25
KEENE FITZPATRICK TOPS
LIST OF GREAT TRAINERS
Michigan is Fortunate to Have Able
Trainer in Charge OF Athletic Squads
lis Perfect Judge Of Physical Fit
ness and Valuable Adjunct to, Team.

/ Ann Arbor, Mich, Oct. 25-sew peo-
pie who watch Michigan so through O
big football game know much of the
little qulct-acting man who Is ever
ready to hasten To the scrimmage Pile
little black satchel I'm hand. whenever
the referees "time-out" whistle signals
that man is "out.". Nor do they know
how important part he plays not on
ly in the conditioning of the wolver-
Inc elevens, but I'm their coaching. That
man is Keene Fitzpatrick--the great
est of all athletic trainers, say Michi-
gan folk, who are willing TO fight with
anyone who says that Mike Murphy
has anything on Michigan's idol.
keenc doesn't say much-but what
he says counts. perfect judge of
physical condition, he can ascertain
In an instant the nature or seriousness
of an Injury, and il is he who decides
whether or not an injured man must
leave the game. only one case has
been known to get away from him
that OF Allerdice In last years Penn
sylvanla game, but in that instance the
plucky halfback, who Is now captain
OF the Wolverines. gave no intimation
would have been quietly but firmly
forced To leave the game. and submit
to the necessary surgical treatment.
The Michigan trainer is not a Mich
igan graduate, nor Is he a graduate If
any college, but there Is no alumnus
OF Michigan who has more interest N
the rise and fall of the Wolverine for
tunes than that same little trainer.
He's been here longer than any of
the present generation of students can
remember, and he looks exactly as he
did when the oldest of them entered
college. In the last six years Yost has
aged; but not so F'itzpatrick-his hair
has only the same sprinkling of gray
that was present when Yost first came
To- Michigan, and no one has ever been
able to detect any change in tempera
mcnt.
Veneration for Trainer.
When Charlie Baird was director Of
athletics at Michigan he was given
credit for a great deal of Michigans
athletic success-and he was entitled
TO all tho credit he was given. But
at the same time, newspapers and out
sidcrs were overlooking the gigantic
accomplishments of Kcene Fitzpatrick
who was Baird's confidential adviser,
%, nh Tn,
an athletic way has ever been started
at Michigan. So conservative that
he is trusted by every member of the
student body at heart and If there
is one man at Michigan who approach
es Dir. Angel i'm amount of generation
received, that man is Keene Fitzpat-
rick.
Mike Murphy is great athletic
trainer and n successful track coach.
some people claim that he is the SUI
perior OF the Michigan man. That con-
troversy will not be settled. of course.
but Michigan alumni and students
claim that when everything is taken
into consideration-thc comparative
advantages enjoyed by the two men
in the way of material-the showing
made by Keene Fitzpatrick is at least
as remarkable as that of Murphy's.
Then, too. they claim that even If Muir
ply is as good as Fitzpatrick as "A
trainer and coach, the Michigan train
or wins easily on the ground of per-
sonality. Without attempting to knock
Mike Murphy, 1t is the contention
here that Kcene Fitzpatrick is one of
the finest. as well as most modest, Of
real gentlemen who have ever been
connected with college athletics.