The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-29
TO TEACH COACHING
kansas VIII Turn Out Managers at
Summer Term.

Lawrence. Kan, Jan. 29--Realizing
the need and demand for summer
work in athletics in order to meet the
demands of high school managers and
coaches over the state, the University
of Kansas has added a novel course TO
the summer school curriculum IN the
way of a class in training, coaching
and managing athletic teams. This
new work will begin this summer at
the university and in the future
should it prove successful viii pc
come a regular part of the summer
term. 1t has been shown repeatedly
that there are a large number of high
school teachers who attend the uni
Sersity every summer to TURNER III
themselves for the high school work
in which they are engaged. 1t Is also
a fact that in every high school of the
state some member of the faculty IS
designated as guardian of athletics or
the school. This has become fegu-
lar custom among kansas nigh ScnOOlS
and a school without a faculty mana
ger is frowned upon by rival high
schools. Often the position of mana
ger and coach falls to the lot of an in
StructOr who is very inexperienced
along lines of athletics and a hardship
is worked upon both the students and
himself. The University of Kansas IS
planning to relieve this situation BY
offering to those instructors who anti
cipate taking up the management OF
high school athletics a course of study
especially designed to meet their needs.
department of athletics of the uni
Versity conducted as a part of the reg
ular summer school. Manager ". Q.
Hamilton, in the role of Professor OF
Athletics" will have charge OF the
classes. The course is to extend over
q period of six weeks with tWO-hOur
sessions each week. The first hour
in each week will be devoted to lee
lures while the second period will con
sist of practical demonstrations MI
Hamilton will be assisted in the work
by some of the Lawrence athletes who
will perform on the track and in the
gymnasium for the benefit of the stu
dents of the athletic department.
It is the primary purpose of the new
course to fit men so that the may
properly take charge of high School
team, train and coach the squads ana
manage the athletic affairs OF the
school in the most economicaland prac-
teal way possible. They will be taught
the rules of the various games that are
participated in by the high schools OF
the state and given a few demonStra-
lions or instructions in regard to the
real inside work of coaching. The val
ne of signals and how they are used;
new plays especially designed to meet
the needs of the man who IS TO look
after a football team are to be worked
out in the class room. Mr.. Hamilton
is also contemplating q short course in
lectures concerning the way of helps
to the managers such as the raising
of money and the financing of hi
school teams. The whole scheme IS
one for the purpose of making high
school coaches and managers more
proficient and to raise the plane OF
high school athletics
The classes will be open to all who
enroll in the summer school regardless
of their athletic ability. 1t is a course
which has long been needed at the
university and no doubt one which viii
be appreciated by the rank and file of
high school teachers.