The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-16
ROYAL WELCOME
FOR TRENCHARD.
Carolina Greets New Com
rnander-in- Chief of Future
Athletic Teams.
Special to The Times Dispatch. I

Especial to The TimcS-D lSpatch.l
Chapel Hill, N c., February 15.-
sity OF North Carolina. in mass meet
ing assembled on Friday night, fired
the opening gun of introduction to the
newly Instituted system OF alumni
coaching by rendering e jubilant wei.
come to the COMMANDMENTS chief of
that system "Doggie" Trenchard, a
former coach and all-American end of
Princeton University. Despite the fact
that 1T was rather the celebration of
a returning to the athletic field of q
prodigal son than the reception of Il
stranger. the welcome extended was
mono the less royal. 1t was in 1906
that Trenchard coached the football
team, and his return on Friday. Feb
ruary ID. 1919, really marks new
departure in the administration OF ath-
letics-the practical introduction of a
combination of the system as in prac-
tlce at the Universities of Princeton,
Harvard ami Virginia.
Introducing Trenchard as the COM
mander-i chief OF future athletic
teams, Professor a. H. Patterson, of the
university faculty, and former athletic
star OF Carolina, expressed the conf
dent hope that by the support OF the
solid backing of the alumni, as work.
ing through its personal representative,
the resident coach. athletics would be
pulled out of tho ditch" His appeal,
however, was directed to the student
body for unbroken cooperation with
Trenchard. He termed the lazy ath-
lete that neglected his studies to the
extent of barring him from playing. as
provided in the eligibility rules, as
guilty OF passive treachery and as I'M
loyal to Carolina as would be the man
that gave the opposing team our "hg-
ures" iii a football contest.
Trenchard opened his talk to the stu
dent body with the statement that con-
o1s Il
had made 1T Enthusiastically clear that
there was something radically wrong
In the administration OF athletics here.
The co operation of faculty, students
and alumni has not been outstanding
in recent years as in former times"
However the tide is turning. and the
alumni that 1 have talked with all over
the State voice the unanimous senti-
ment that they are with you, both in
spirit and financial support, for tho
placing of athletics on better basis.
They realizo that every time Virginia
overwhelmingly beats Carolina that
they arc not only beating the univer-
sity, but the entire State"
Briefly touching upon the outline of
his future plans Trenchard urged
every student to keep his cars and
budding athletes and turn their steps
in the direction of Carolina. With
the intention of beginning football
practice in few weeks, he asked every
new man to report and enter upon the
task of developing punters and drop
kickers. He said by postponing foot
ball practice until tho fall months, that
recent football teams had bucked up
against the impossible thinG-that of
developing winning teams. Appealing
for close cooperation from tho stu
dent body, and IL that was granted. he
expressed n bright future for the newly
instituted system OF administration Of
athletics and that soon Carolina would
be turning out winning teams.