The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-26

son, and ii he did not have the ability
1t would save the club a lot of money
to find 1t on before the season open
ed. The proposition couldn't lose any
way you look at it."
What Barrett says, what Jennings
thinks. and what Connie Mack is doing
in tutoring Is unquestionable the right
thing. However. in his opening SEN
tence. Barrett IL q trifie misleading.
He states that all the best football
teams have coaches for every position
on the team.
Just as baseball managers are real
ising the importance Of individual
coaching. the football experts are be-
ginning to realize that this Is not
the best method for football.
h a why individual coaching
Is good for baseball and not for foot
ball is found in the difference between
the fundamentals Of the two games.
Baseball Is far more Of an individu-
al game than football. Though team
work is essential or any athletic or
g%anization, the individual acts on the
field Of play count for more In base
ball than in football. For instance.
In the worlds series Of 1911, Frank
Baker was performing all by himself
when he clouted over the right field
wall for a home run which defeated
the Giants. He was in no way as
sisted by any Of his teammates in
making that play.
In football 1t is quite different, A
mar may appear to be doing every
thing alone, but he isn't. That is Just
where the, average spectator falls
down In his appreciation Of the ma
tional college sport. He sees a 90
yard run. and the unner is the hero
in his eyes-a whole landscape Of
cheese. as 1t were. Yet It might be
run. for without diligent interference
and blocking, he would not have been
able to get away with 1t. Even the
mighty Thorpe. who is conceded to be
the best football player. Of the present
day. would be powerless to. accom-
plish anything with a paper line in
front of him and a pair of paper backs
blocking for him.
Warner Is One.Aian System.
Glenn Warner, coach of. the Carlisle
team. is a good example of the one
man coach, and what the one-man
coach can do for a football team.
Year in and year out. there is not a
better football eleven in the country
than the Carlisle Indians. They play
consistently good ball.
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today a coach who has been for years
the main football director? II any
of them has such a man that team
would undoubtedly be far beyond the
others in playing power. The old sys-
TEN Of having graduate coaches do the
work was one Of the weakest systems
YER invented. The man was not Sc
lected to coach because he could
coach. but because he could play.
Strange, but true. playing and COACH
ing are quite as different as studying
given subjects and teaching then
show signs Of dissimilarity.
Which. summed up. brings us to the
conclusion that the individual COACH
ing Of a baseball player is the thing;
that not only is teamwork developed
more highly. but individual play il
bettered in football by a one.man sys-
TEN in coaching football elevenS.
Muggsy McGraw has the individual
system down so fine that he not only
wants coaching for every position, but
wants individual treatment for every
physical member. down to, or rather
up to, the teeth.