Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-24
HAUGHTON AND
STAGE PRAISED
FOR SUCCESS
Harvard and Maroon Coaches Use
Entirely Different Tactics on
Gridiron Field.
By Frank G.. Menuc.


" that Harvard in the East and
Chicago in tho West today
hold undisputed claims to the cham
pionshfp in their respective sections,
although coached in entirely different
ways, has led to much speculation as
10 Just what coaching tactics pro
duce winners, and just how tar
coaching enters into the success Of a
football team.
Haughton, OF Harvard, drove his
team to victory; Stage, OF Chicago,
led his charges to the crest OF West
ern football. Haughton, OF q stern,
forbidding type when handling a team
drives his men at top speed every
moment they are on the Held, and
inspires something Ike fear In his
men. Stage, with a gentle. kindly
temperament, makes his men love
him and fight for him because they
do love him. He never gives out tho
idea that no liz their boss; rather, mis-
attitude is that Of big brother, one
who suggests, more than orders, what
his men should do.
-
l. both these men, ana they ara
given immeasurable credit for the &C
complishment OF the teams In their
charge. Yet, with all due respect foi
the marvellous coaching skill OF
Haughton and Stage, as well as Yos;,
Of Michigan; Warner OF Carlisle, asd
The legion OF others, Il seems to US
that the success OF a football team
does not depend so largely upon the
ealiber OF the coach as is generally
believed.
II is our theory that the best coach
in the world can not produce a win
ner unless he has the material and
that the most mediocre coach, having
great natural players under him, will
head a championship team.
Yost and the various Michigan
teams stand out as the best example
of our argument Several years ago
yost took charge OF the Michigan
eleven and soon whipped it into the
greatest football aggregation that
ever donned the moleskins. Yost
length and breadth OF the land True,
Yost, in a measure, was responsible
for the success Of the Michigan teams
in 1901 OF -0S-04 but around in 1906
and 1907 and for a number of years
later ii was plainly shown that
coach, without football marvels under
him, can not produce winner.
DACK In 1906 Michigan's position
- as a star in the football firma-
ment began to wane Yost still was
in charge. He certainly knew more
about the art OF coaching then than
he did when he took charge in 1901.
lie had the benefit OF experience.
Yet he could not put through a win
ner. The Michigan team for the past
i've years-with the exception of the
1918 aggregation-sta cked up as only
ordinary teams.
The fault was not with yost. He
didn't have the players. But he WAS
back in the arena thi year with a
team that reminded one of the aggre-
cations in the days of Heston, Rel
den and Snow. The aggregation vert
through the season with only one
defeat, and that at the hands Of the
despised Michigan Asgies, team
that the Michigan eleven had under
rated. and which swept its way to
victory before the Wolverines woke
up to their peril,
STAGG Is another example. Ten
} years ago Chicago ranked with
Michigan IA one of the greatest
teams in the country. That was
when Eckersall, the famous drop
iSicker, and others of his kind wore
he Chicago uniforms. But the ranks
Df the Chicago team were depleted Of
its stars by graduation few years
alter and Chicago sank back.
Stage did what he could to pro-
duce a winner in the intervening
years, but because he lacked the ma
terial he failed. This year he had
The material and chicago went
through the season undereated
Football records at all the other
olleges will show parallels OF the
Stage Yost failures, and seem to con
vince beyond a doubt that the great
sst coach in the world can not pro-
suce a champion unless he has TIE
material.