The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-13
Mike Murphy Says
 Linemen Ought to
 Stand up Straight
Penn Coaches Think They Should Play Low a d That
 Makes Troub.e

Michael c. Murphy, better known to every friend and graduate of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania as Mike Murphy, worker of athletic miracles, absolutely denied yesterday that he had the slightest intention of resign ing his post as trainer of the Red and Blue teams. A statement was pub lished to the effect that Mike in tended to leave at the end of the col lege year of 1911-12.
 The reason assigned for this action was that the great handler of athletes had been ignored, even "insulted'', by years Pennsylvania football team.
 Besides denying that he intended to quit, Murphy also branded as false the statement that he had been '1n- suited" in any way or that he had been told to ''go back and sit down. when he proffered a bit of advice about taking player out of the h. dian game a week ago Saturday. The published article had stated that such had been the case and that this afr .ont had crystalized Murphy's determina- tion to leave a university where he was no longer wanted.
 Andrew Smith, head coach of the football team, also denied with equal emphasis that Murphy had been zig ncred or insulted", saying: Mikes advice is too valuable not to be care. fully considered
 Roy Mercer, captain of the Penn team, said: "I don't think that Mike Murphy will ever leave Penn. I don't think that they will ever let him go. This is just a wild tale that has sprung up over night. Mike is mad at the way things have broken, but to quit Penn, never. I am trying to lead "a beaten team and I think that we still have a chance to win out, but it will be a long uphill fight.
 ''We have good coaching and cer- tainly Murphy is the best trainer in the country. have been hurt all year and Mike has lost several other men from the same reason, but we are not beaten by Cornell or Michigan until the game is over.
 T have not read about Murphy de- string to resign as soon as the football season is over, but you can take it from me that they will never permit him to do so''
 Other members of Penn's athletic governing body were equally prompt in branding the published report as untrue, even before. they had had a chance to see Murphy and hear him deny the rumor in so many words. Half a dozen men high in the councils of the Red and Blue were unanimous in saying: Nothing to it; either that Mike has been ignored or that he in tends to leave the University of Penn sylvania."
 1T believe the men should stand erect and should spread out more," said Murphy, in explaining his ideas on this mooted point. "The coaches think they should bunch up and get down on their hands and knees just before the ball is snapped. I think if they were more erect they would be more on their toes and could get the jump on their opponents better and could be more on the alert for forward passes and on-side kicks. But that's neither here nor there. It's only that we have different views. It doesn't mean there is hard feeling, for there isn't.
 Whenever there is a bad season people get to talking. All sorts of wild rumors fill the air. It's only natural. But this years failures are not the fault of the coaches. They have done the best they could with the material on hand. The trouble is with the students. Not one-fifth of them try for teams I'll bet there is many a good man right now in college who hasn't come out. Then, too, when a mass meeting is called. they don't turn out as they should. They are getting shy on spirit out here. they want to wake up.'
 Referring to himself again, he ex- plained that he was under a five-year contract and had not the slightest in- tentiOn of breaking it.