Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-25
HAUCHTON AND
STAGE PRAISED
FOR SUCCESS
Harvard and Maroon Coaches Use
Entirely Different Tactics on
Gridiron Field,
By Frank G. Menuc.

-rEw YORK. Nov 24-Tho fact
that Harvard In the East anu
Chicago IN the West today
aold undisputed claims to thc cham
pionship in their respective sections,
IlthouFh coached in entirely different
ways. has TED to much speculation ns
TO Just what coaching tactics pro-
duce winners, and just how Tar
coaching enters into the success Of
football team.
Haughton. Of Harvard, drove h!s
cam to victory; Stage, Of Chicago,
led his charges to tho crest OF West
ern football Haughton, Of a stern,
forbidding type when handling team,
drives his men at top speed every
moment they are on the ned ana
inspires something like fear In his
men. stage with gentle, kinnly
temperament makes his men love
him aud fight for him because they
DO love him. lie never gives out the
dea thst he IL their boss, rather, mis-
8ttltude is that OF q big brother, one
Who suggests, more than orders, what
his men should do,
DRAISEs are being sung to-day .r
L both these men. and they are
given immeasura bic credit for the lc-
complishment of the teams In then
charge. Vet with an due respect f't
tho marvellous coaching skill Of
Haughton and Stage, as well as Nost
Of Michigan; Warner OF Carlisle, ava
the legion OF others. IL seems to us
that the success of football team
1ocs not depend SO largely upon the
gJliber of the coach As Is generally
believed
It is our theory that the best coach
n the world can not produce a wiz
uer unless he has the material, aud
that the most mediocre coach, HAVING
great natural players under him, VII
head a championship team.
Yost and the various Michigan
teams stand out as the best example
Of our argument Several years ag
Nost took charge oil the Michigan
eleven and soon whipped il into .he
greatest football aggregation that
ever donned the molesklns. Nost
praises were sung throughout the
length an0 breadth OF the land True,
Yost, in a measure, was responsible
for the success of the Michigan teams
in 1901 OF -03-04 but around In 1906
and 1907 and for number Of years
later il was plainly shown that
coach, without football marvels under
him. can not produce winner,
DACK in 1906 Michigan's position
ID 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 1901
He had the benefit OF experience.
Yet he could not nut through a win
ner, The Michigan team for the past
Eve years--with the exception of the
1918 aggTs gation--st 'ked up as only
ordinary teams.
The fault was not with Yost He
didn't have the players But he was
back in the arena thl year with
team that'reminded me of the aggre-
cations In the days of Heston, Rel
den and Snow. The aggrega ton vert
through the season with only one
defeat, and that at the hands of the
despised Michigan Aggies, a team
that the Michigal. e,-ven 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 as one of the greatest
teams in the country. That was
when Eckersan, the famous drop
kicker. and others of his kind woe
the Chicago uniforms, But the ranks
of the Chicago team were depleted OF
its stars by graduation few years
later and Chicago sank back
Stag did what ne could 10 pro
luce a winner in the intervening
years, bu hecausa he lacked the ma
terial he failed This year he HAD
he material and chicago wen;
, rough the season undefeated
-prootball records at all the other
colleges will SHOW parallels OF he
Stagg- Yost failures. and seem to con
vince beyond a doubt that the great
est coach in the world can not pro-
duce a champion unless he has the
material