The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-06
Johnny Evers Is After Billy Lush's
 Position At Yale
Coach Kennedy of Eli Crew Also in Danger of Being
 Ousted From Job

Yale athletics are to be investi- gated with a thoroughness which will
 proba bly, bring about as great an overhauling as resulted after the foot ball season of 1908, according to the
 New York Times, Yale has lost every
 series in the four major sports this
 year. except football. failing to de- | feat Harvard in this. and being beat en by Brown and West Point. For the first time the track team was beaten by Princeton, the baseball nine lost both the Harvard and Princeton series, and the crew was defeated by every eastern university which boasts a formidable crew ex- | cept Columb bia.
 l Two of the incidents of the reform will be the fight two of the profes- l sional coaches, John Kennedy of the crew and Billy Lush of the baseball nine, must make for their places. Sew 1 eral different movem ents are on foot to displace Kennedy and at least one | to supersede Lush. This is headed by | a faction of former Yale players who
 wish to see Johnny Evers of Chicago replace him under contract for sev- eral years One attack on Lush and Kennedy aims to abolish professional coaching altogether and replace 1t
 with graduates. This is headed by a faction composed of faculty members
 and former players who hold theo- retical views on the subject and feel that this is a good time to drop paid coaches.
 A strong attempt to oust Kennedy is being led by Bob Cook. the former Yale rowing coach and captain. He
 doesn't aim to return to Yale, but has a scheme formulated which will l bring Jim Rodgers, the former Yale
 oarsman and football captain, back as head rowing coach, with power to choose a professional instructor if he
 chooses. Rodgers is ein business in
 Yale crew which Cook took to Hen ley in 1896.
 Another attempt to displace Ken nedy is headed by Alfred Cowles of Chicago, captain of the '86 crew.
 Cook came from Paris to attend his
 was graduated in '7s. He did not go
 to Gales Ferry to the Yale training camp. MT. CoWles came East to att tend the reunion of 's6. He went to New London and remained three days
 with the oarsmen. Nearly every sculI-
 CT of promise in the country, know ing of Yale's four annual successive
 rowing defeats, is candidate for MT. Kennedy's place, but none of the
 movements started for MT. Kennedy's place includes the naming of a pro
 fessional rowing instructor to succeed
 him.
 The Yale athletic reform goes deeper, however, than the replacing of two or three professional coaches in the university. It contemplates a system of athletic control which does
 not leave the captains supreme. At present Radcliffe Romeyn, captain of the crew for next season, and Henry Newton Merritt. the baseball captain, have absolute power to select their
 coaches and to determine their sys- tenn. They can revert to amateur
 coaching or can select any profes- sional they choose. Neither has vet
 made up his mind, according to in- terviews with both.
 Both Lush and Kennedy have standing offers from leading Ameri-
 can universities and their resignations
 can be had any time for the askins. but they are urged to remain by powerful factions of rowing and the
 baseball men. Each has a large fol- lowing of alumni, who wish them re- tained, and indications are that both will remain unless professional coach ing is abolished.