The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-24
ELLIOTT TO COACH
VIRGINIA ELEVEN
Announcement by Advisory
Board OF General Athletic
Association.
WELL-KNoWN FOOTBALL MAN
Selection Very Pleasing to Cap
tain Todd and DIR.
Lambeth.
lsnecinl 70 The Timcs.D,spo,c,

Especial to The Times Dispatch.
| Charlottesville. Va, March 23.-The
advisory bourd Of the General Athletic
Association of the University of Eir-
| ginia authorizes the statement that
! John Speed Elliott, of Bonneville, Mo-,
| will coach the 1872 Virginia football
F.. team. In letter to II. ii. Warner,
president of the athletic association,
Elliott, who Is absent from the uni
versity, accepted the offer extended
him to serve as field coach OF the team
next season.
The newly appointed coach is
! twenty-three years old and the present
session is his fifth at the university.
| He attended preparatory school at
kemper Military Academy In Missouri.
and while there he was a star half.
lack ON the football team.
During the season OF 1907. his first
year in college, Elliott played football
on the SCRUB team. lie won his letter
in 1905. however, and put up i brilliant
game at right-end mat year and
throughout the following cason. Soon
after the season closed in 1909, Elliott
underwent an operation for mastoid
trouble, and since that time lie has not
played on the football team. He has,
however, maintained his active interest
in the squad, and during the past two
seasons has rendered invaluable as
sietance TO Head Coaches Crawford and
Yancey.
The alumni system of coaching in
football was inaugurated at the uni
vers!ty in 1907. Hammond johnson
was appointed the first alumni coach
and MS successors have been Empty
Cooke, j. II. Nef, Charles Crawford
and kemper W. Yancey.
Elliott Law student.
Elliott is student In the second
year law class, and will be an appl cant
for his degree next year. He expects
to practice law with his father at his
home. in Missouri. and has already
passed tho bai examination in that
State.
During the greater part of the mid
winter term Elliott has been absent
from the college, owing to illness In
his family. He Is expected at the uni
versity within the next few days. but
1t is not improbable that he will re-
sign from college for the remainder
of this session. He Will. however. be
on hand before the football sea son
opens next fall.
III speaking of the new coach. T. H.
Todd, captain of next years football
team, made the following statement:
I'm the judgment of the football
players now in college, no man better
than Speed Elliott could have been
football team. Speed Elliott himself
plays brilliant game at end, both
extensively and dcfensively. For two
years he has helped develop the best
! football teams the university could
produce, and the experience he has
acquired Will stand him in good stead.
I Thirteen of last seasons letter men
Will be back In college next fall eli
gible 10 play under the four-year rule.
With these men. together with the
new material that Will develop from
this years scrub team and from the
new men who will matriculato next
session, the 1912 football team will
develop into one of the strongest ever
turned out from the University OF Viz
ginia.
Speed Elliott already knows person
ally every man who played OH Lambeth
, Field last fall. He will have the
nearty good will and cooperation Of
the entire squad. believe his APP
pointment OF Itself insures Il successful
season next year"
I.n,nhrth IL Pleased.
DR. ". A. Lambeth is we'll pleased