The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-11
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BIG. JOE CURTIS
BUSY At GOLDEN
New Coach Promises Plenty
of YOSt'S Ginger for the
Miners Diet.

Seen by a Denver paper Thursday just
after he had landed at Golden, Big Joe
Curtis. new coach of the Miners. had the
following to say 1t will be interesting
to the Utah followers Of the game, as the
Golden-U. of L. game viii be one of the
big ones of the year
TT is impossible for me to make any
forecasts he said yesterday afternoon,
leaning back in a chair which fitted MIN
none too well and gazing over a Work
strewn desk 81 have had no opportunity
to look the men over yet The field IS
mass of mud or we would have been out
on il today. Our calculations are based
entirely upon paper-and d paper team IS
hard to judge. But we will do the best
we can with our ma teTldl- we Will nave
forty men in the squad at least. There
appears to be intense interest in football
and the boys are all harmonious. Many
of our old men are with us again TINS
year and we expect to give a good &C
count Of ourselves before the season Is
over"
''Yosts methodist" The big man repeat
ed the question. There was a fire in his
eyes and a world OF loyalty and dttec-
ton in his voice as he paid tribute to the
coach under whom he fought and SWeatcd
and scrimmased for four years.
"Yosts methods mean ginger. That s
all. 1t means the 'hUTry-UD' spirit in a
team That's where he got his name. 1t
means no particular style of play. Gosts
results were tribute to the personality
and individuality Of the man himself Tt
was the way he got the men TO work for
him. the spirit ne infused into them
will Won develop the open style of
play?' he was asked.
Certainly. The rules demand il. Per
SO1dliy ] believe in il. IT makes the game
more interesting to watch. We viii do
the best with our material, although un-
I'll We find out what we have got to work
with it is not safe to make any predic-
TONS
Has Record as Coach.
Behind Big Joe are the faculty and the
student body at the Mines. He has
WhOle-SOulsd support and his work with
the team should produce good results. He
Is no stranger to the art OF coaching,
which is as different from playing the
game as criucizing a painting is from
executing a mdsteTDiece Some men are
start on the field. but do not have the
faculty Of imDarting their skill to others.
some men both play and teach, and Cur
tbs is one Of these.
For the past two seasons he has coached
at Tulane. New Orleans. with exception
ally fine results. turning out ChamuiOn-
snip material where mediOcrity had held
sway before He played tackle and guard
at Michigan long enough TO learn the
thousand and one points of the game if
anyone ever can learn them. and he
comes to Golden well equipped for the
task OF turning out a pennant-winniug
team.
As a nucleus he has the following tried
veterans: Captain Tommy Skinner. end:
LaHnon, half; Douglas. half. Dugan, full:
Adams. end and quarter; Gilbert. end /:
Calvert. half. Ortuer. formerly of the
University of Colorado, lineman: Spring
half; Bsadbetter Iinemau
Besides theSs lien there is promising
material in the following husky caudi-
duties: MaUm. end; Fitzgerald, center:
kelso. line. Atsop. line; AIetger end:
Iish. full. who played ON East Denver
last year: Murtes, line; Mcintyre. half.
Slattery. half: Ball. quarter. and Young
line. These are but d few of the big
SQUAD which will don toys tomorrow for
practice.
When work begins. the Miners. who
get almost enough of il i'm thp class
room. will find the Yost ginger. applied a
Ia Curtis. some medicine, but Golden is
stirred with the ambition Of recapturinC
ing.