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.

NEW YORK, Nov. 24-The fact
" that Harvard in the East and
Chicago IN the West o-oay
nold undisputed claims to the cham
pionship in their respective sections.
although coached in entirely different
Ways, has led to much speculation as
to just what coaching tactics pro-
duce winners, and just how tar
coaching enters into the success or
football team.
Haughton, OF Harvard, drove his
cam TO victory: Stage, OF Chicago,
led his charges to the crest Of West
ern football. Haughton, Of stern,
forbidding type when handling a team,
drives his men at top speed every
moment they are on the held, and
inspires something like fear in his
men. stage, with a gentle, kindly
tenn permanent, makes his men love
him and fight for him because they
do love him. He never gives out tho
idea that he is their boss; rather, mis-
attitude IL that Of a big brother, one
who suggests, more than orders, what
his men should do.
l. tSRIS1J~ are btlHE fuIE W Va -|t
both these men, and they are
given Unreasonable credit for the &C
comprshment OF the teams in their
charge Yet. with all due respect To-
the marvellous coaching skill Of
Haughton and Stage. as well as Yos;,
Of Michigan: Warner, OF Carlisle, aud
the legion OF others, Il seems to us
that the success OF a football team
does not depend 80 largely upon the
alN.W- - .
oelieyed.
1t 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, viii
head a championship team.
Yost and the various Michigan
teams stand out as the best example
of our argument. Several years ago
fost took charge OF the Michigan
eleven and soon whipped il into he
greatest football aggregation that
ever donned the moleskins. Yoat
praises were Bung throughout the
length and nsvsdth OF the land True,
Nost, In a measure, was responsible
for the success of the Michigan teams
in 1901 o. 0S-0%, but around in 1905
and 1907 and for a number of years
alter II was plainly shown that
coach, without football marvels under
him, can not produce a winner.
pACK in 1906 Michigans position
II as a star in the football firma-
ment began to wane. Yost stu was
in charge. He certainly knew more
about the art of coaching then than
he did when he took charge in 1907.
He had the benefit OF experience.
Yet he could not put through a win
ner. The Michigan team for the past
five years-with the exception of the
1918 aggregation-stack up az only
ordinary teams.
The fault was not with yost. He
didn't have the players But he Nas
back in the arena tht year with a
team that reminded one OF the aggre-
cations in the days of Heston, Red
den and Snow, The aggregation vert
through the season with only ono
defeat and that at the hands of the
despised Michigan Aggies, a team
that the Michigan eleven had under
rated. and which swept its way 10
victory before the Wolverines woke
up to their peril,
CTAGG is another example. Ten
> years ago Chicago ranked with
Michigan az one of the greatest
teams in the country. That was
when Eckersall, the famous drop
dcker, and others OF his kind wore
he Chicago uniforms But the ranks
II the Chicago team were depleted OF
its stars by graduation a 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 indicated.
Football records at all the other
,olleges will show parallels OF the
Stagg Yost failures, and seem to con-
vince beyond a doubt that the great
ast coach in the world can not pro
luce champion unless he has tie
Material