The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-05
COACH R. FOLWELL
PUTS W. & J. TEAM
ON FOOTBALL MAP
Former Pennsylvania Star
Takes Small Squad With
Brains and Stops Attack of
Foes.
BY FRANK G. MENkE.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-RObert G.
Folwell stands out today as the most
remarkable coach in the history of
football He went to Washington and
jefferson college, where the enroll
ment is only $50. and built up a team
in 1913 that scored BAT points, that
won nine out of ten games and held
the great Yale eleven to scOrelesS
tie in the tenth game. This year he is
back with even more wonderful
team.
He is back in 1914 with team that
ripped the hide off of the Yale eleven
two weeks ago. the same Yale team
that was heralded far and wide as the
best Yale team in ten years. Not only
that, but W and j. tackled Harvard
Just week before in Harvards own
football lot and played Harvard prac-
ticaily to a StandStill
Hurry Up Tost of Michigan, Per
cy HauGhton Of Harvard. Alonzo Stage
Of Chicago. Frank Hinkey of Yale, and
Glen Warner Of Carlisle, are great
coaches They have accomplished
wonderful things in their careers. But
the accomplishments Of each pale into
inSignificance in comparison with
what t'olwell, a former University of
Pennsylvania player, has done.
Why shouldn't yost, S;egE, Isugh-
ron and the others get together great
football elcvens" They have a student
enrolment of from 1000 70 5000 to
Graw from each year. When they
send out a call for football candidates
frCn' 200 TO 800 men who had coEsid-
erabic football experience at prep and
high schools answer the call. And they
have = dozen former football stars to
assist them in their coaching work.
And Folwell' How different is his
situation. w ard J.. although one of
the oldest colleges west OF the Ale
Ehanies, is one of the smallest. It's
student enrolment this year is about
$40. Last year it was about 500 Fol
well last year and this year had TO
make his selection from among men
who would not be given second
thought by The coaches of other elev
ems. He had to make his selection
from little men-frOm the kind Of
men that Yale. Harvard and Michigan
would not have considered at all be
cause of their lishtness and their
smallness.
Vet Folwell, handicapped by the
lack OF bulk and Drawn did not be-
come discouraged. His men had brains,
they had courage and they We're game
to the core. No obstacle frightened
them. And so Folwell. picked out
about 20 OF the most likely looking
candidates. welded them into ma
chine that, when all things are con-
sidered. Ia the most wonderful football
machine ever put together.
The W. and J. backfield this year
averages 8 feet 8 inches in height and
1870 pounds in weight. It's line is light
er and shorter in average size than
any first class team in the country,
yet that 100 pound backfield tore the
powerful Yale and Harvard line to
shreds. 1t ripped through the strong
Mt. Union team as though it We're pa
per and then rolled up 105 to 0
score against Dickinson.
The w. and J. line has thrown back
the charging Yale backs. it has thrown
back the Harvard backfield and it has
thrown back for losses every team
that tried to force it's way through
It's a pigmy line in comparison with
that of the big colleges in the east
Vet il is a Gibraltar one of the strong
est lines ever put together by any
team.
What W. and J. lacks in size it makes
up in brains and spirit. Every man
on the w. and j. team must be Glass
a student or he doesn't play football.
In W. and J. college studies come first.
If a student is up in his studies he
may play football. If he isn't, he cant
play.
FOlwoll went to ". and J. college
when it was a little known institution
in a football way In less than two
years he brought it to the fore as one
ct the greatest football institutions in
America. Folwell went there and
found about 80 unlikely looking foot
ballers responding to his call for can
didates. He quickly found that those
who presented themselves then were
all that would present thems elves
that the college was SO small that can
didateS We're but few.