Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-21
GRADUATE COACHING
Much Hypocrisy Evident in
the System.
SO-CALLED AMATEURS PAID
Little Difference Between Paying
Non-College and College
Men for Services.
SO-CALLED AMATEURS PAID
BY EDWARD r. BUSHNELL.

In their endeavoring to place the
coaching of all the major sports on a
sO-called graduate amateur basis the
Yale men have come across one sport
which they dare not take out of the
hands of the professional. This is track
athletics. Within the last year the Ellis
have deposed John Kennedy as the pro-
fessional coach of the crews and Billy
Lush, who occupied a similar position
for base ball Foot ball, of course,
never was under the direction of out
and out professionals
John Mack is the coach of the Yale
! track team. Apparently he is in
dispensable to the success of this sport.
for in their endeavor to install gradu-
ate coaches everywhere the Yale
authorities had to content themselves
with the appointment of two men to
act as an advisory committee. They
are III. S. Brooks. intercollegiate
champion Splinter of twenty years
ago. and e. G. Parks of the 1904 team
AS matter of fact there is great
deal Of hypocrisy in the attitude which
Yale and some other institutions as
sumo toward the professional coach.
1t has been the habit of English critics
system to such an extent that some of
our own universities have come to the
conclusion that the system is really
wrong. But this is an inconsistent
! attitude, as can be shown very easily.
The objection which the English critics
make to our professional coaches Is that
they are men who are paid for their
| services. thing which Is really objec-
tionable to many of England's amateur
element. But 1t should be pointed out
that Yale in dispensing with the services
| of such men as Kennedy and Lush and
putting In their places two graduates.
Rodgers and Quincy. has merely substi-
tuted the graduate professional for the
non-college professional. Yale has not
abolished the plan Of paying her coaches
which was the feature criticised. If the
professional system is wrong it Is hard to
see why it Is any worse to pay a nom
college man than to employ a graduate.
| Yale, like most other colleges has
pointed to her foot ball with particular
pride because it is not in charge of a
professional in the same manner that the
track team is. But Yale has had to pay
bigger salaries and expenses for the
graduate stars than she would for the
out-and-out professionals. The spirit OF
professional coaching is just as firmly
intrenched at Yale. Harvard and other
| big universities as 1t ever was.
! The reason that graduates have not
taken the place Of the professionals in
track athletics is that the graduate has
almost invariably proved a fallure. The
development Of a track tream requires
peculiar and all-round ability which is
acquired only after years of laboring
work. Very few graduates have shown
the ability or a taste for this. sort Of
work .1For instance there is no Pennsyl-
vani6 sraduate who could begin to equal
| the skill of Mike Murphy, nor has Cor
nell any one who can take the place of
Jack Moakley, its professional coach.
The two most conspicuous examples OF
! he fpyI tnC in hn
coaching of track athletics are A. A.
lStagg. q Yale man, now in charge Of ath-
Iletics at the University of Chicago, and
Ia. G. Kranzlein. a graduate of the Uni
Iversity of Pennsylvania. who has charge
of track sports at the University of
Michigan