New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-30
FOOTBALL AT PRINCETON
Advisory Board Of Five Grads
to Control the Sport.
BILL ROPER AS CHAIRMAN
New Stadium to Seat Forty
Thousand Persons Promised
in Two Years.


Princeton. ~ J.. March 99-Princeton In
her extremity 70 secure winning football
teams dlas adopted new system Of grad
uate control II the sport Instead Of plac-
ing the entire policy OF the coaching and
entire control Of the teams in the hands
Of one man. the head coach. it has been
decided to have an advisory board Of FIVE
graduates. II is thought that this plan
viii insure q continuous system OF de-
veopment from year to year.
Although the authority granted 10 this
committee is practically supreme in everr-
thing connected with football In Princeton
except the financial matters, Yet It il not
expected that the members viii all Of
them take an active part in the coaching.
II il not planned IN go back 20 the sys-
tenn of 1909 when the "triumvirate ruled
football I'm Princeton with such little sue
cess The trouble in 1900 lay not in the
coaches OF the team. but in the fact that
there were too many with the same
amount of power. Princeton learn d
before the season was over the truin "'
;h,- old adage that too many cooks spoI
the broth" and ittis hardly likely that the
same mistake will he made again
I'll, evstem planned for next year is not
now one. for II is now being used hy inc
Yale Rowing Association and 70 certain
extent 10y the Vale Football Assocla lon'
although Yale har no definite graduate
hoard i'm control of the sport a. u planned
for Princeton Yale does have each year q
permanent policy however. and me So
called Vale system i'm football has done
much for the sport such policy, which
viii h, normanent and not changed every
other year with the advent Of a new coacH'
is what Princeton is looking FOR. Whether
/ or not tho proposed graduate committee
! will prove what Il needed remains to- ne
seen. but on paper there seem TO We many
advantages 10 the scheme.
Football in Princeton now stands at me
most critical point OF is history. Next year
the Tigers will resume relations on the
crldiron with Harvard for the irst time
since 1896 Much depends on the outcome oil
next season as 10 whether the orange ana
Black teams are 70 maintain the old posi-
tiou which they held back in the -
whom a victory over the Crimson eleven
wa. practically am assured thing. and when
a class would consider itself disgraced q
l graduate without at least seeing one VIC
I tory over Yale.
" W Roper o.. director Of athletics al
Princeton. will act as chairman Of the
board. and the other four members are
Knox Taylor Is; Langdon Lea. 80 ". G.
Booth. 900. nj ". L. Foulk. '05. Every
one of these men played or "A champion
ship Princeton football team M some time
during his undergraduate course.
This board was selected hy Professor
AIcCIenahan. chairman of the committee
ON outdoor sports AZ Princeton, Tracy II.
Harris and Big Bill Edwards, ~. The
board will advised with the captain Of the
team and with the deld coaches yet on
all ques ions the Judgment Of the board
viii be final II IS hoped TO receive by this
system all the benefits Of the Judgment
and experience Of several men. rather than
OF one, and 10 maintain continuity Of the
foot BAH policy. which mas hitherto been
lacking.
At The same time that Professor Howard
NcClenahan announced the selection Of the
football advisory hoard he made the state
ment that rlsn- for football stadium
were now Oh foot. II may bo impossible
20 erect the stadium for the Harvard game
next fall but it rs pretty veil assured that
it viii De ready for the following season.
II is planned 10 erect stadium large
enough TO seat forty thousand persons.