Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-15
SPEEDY" RUSH
HAS PRINCETON
ON THE JUMP
Noted Coach, Though Yet
an Experiment, Has
Great 1915 Outlook
GOOD MATERIAL ON HANn

Football at Princeton always has 49,.
pied a prominent place in the sun ~,
this year for other reasons grfdiron ~
fairs In 7Tigertown will have foc,.A, ~
on them the eyes OF the whole coI,se.
world NV"ese
The Tigers are experimenting WITH
new kind of coach. He is Speedy Ioh-
Rush, famous as a great sprinter. nm,
man who never played college footbs,,
Before this year he had never cvsn
coached college football, and yet Prince
ton graduates, undergraduates ana nls~.
ers are confident almost to a man az,
he Will make good.
The developments of the season .,..
will show what Rush can do. But ,n..
now he is an interesting personaiIsv
Rush went to Princeton nearly twerts
years ago as a sprinter. His home wss
IN Iowa, where ne had won fama h,
running 100 yards in 9 AS seconds Tha,
In those days was enough to mako h,r,
national celebrity. At Princeton Rush
followed the fortunes of the Tigers on
the gridiron, but his own efforts he con.
centrated on track sports.
After leaving Princeton he wen, ..
Ohio and later became physical direc,o,
OF the University School of Cleveland M
only football experience was what ha
mad acquired as a schoolboy and through
MS observation in the East But ho
tackled his new job and soon made ths
Cleveland School one of the best IN ths
Middle West. Boys who had learned foo,.
pall from Rush went to Eastern univer.
sitie9 and Immediately made good one
OF tnese was Barrett, the All-American
quarterback of Cornell. Another was
See5ach, captain of Pennsylvania's bas.
ketball team last year and end on m.
football team.
while Rush was making his football
reputation at Cleveland his alma mater
was going through the vicissitudes OF
many bad seasons. The Tigers tried
every available graduate they could ind
without success. Finally a committee
OF Famous players secured the country
and recommended Rush. He was picked
because he had shown ability to take
boys who never played football and make
star players of them. Likewise he pos
sessed personality that made him like.
aole and respected. What Rush had
done at Cleveland he could repeat al
Princeton, they argued. So he was
signed He went to Princeton last spring
and gave the football men the first real
session of spring practice they had ever
had. Before he began work, Rush said
he expected to know more about the capa-
bllities of his men as the result of the
spring work than month of the fall
season.
Add to the enthusiasm furnished by the
engagement o? Rush the fact that Prince
ton retains lr~.rly all her 1914 veterans
and one can readily understand why the
confidence which now reigns there
without question the failure of Prince
ton to reach the strength expected last
year was due to poor coaching and TOO
much of it. The last quarter OF the
Yale game, when Princeton, with Frank
Click, the new captain, at the helm,
scored two touchdowns and came within
an ace of beating the Ellis, showed what
the team was capable of doing when
properly directed.
IL VIII have the proper direction this
year because Click is a general himself
and Rush knows enough not to interiors
with such a man. The Tigers have their
oackneld intact Click probably will play
quarterback, with Moore and Dickerman
heroes with him in that last famous
quarter against Yale, as his running
mates. briggs, Eberstadt, Boland, Tib-
bott and Law give the Tigers unusually
good substitute material back OF the line
The losses are all in the line, but they
are not severe. Ballin, the All-American
tackle, has graduated, and so have
Shenk, guard, and the Trenkmann
brothers, who could play either in the
line or backfield. But Gennert and
Nourse. two corking good centres, are
back, while Foster and Heysinger can
play the guards and Mclean is sure Of
his old place at tackle.