Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-10


success depends almost as much on the
coach as Il does upon the individuals wh9
make up the team. True. team Of In
dividual stars viii almost always beat a
team Of green men. but tho cases OF
green teams being developed into win
ners by coaches are too many 70 be over
looked
Harvard. Yale and Princeton, known in
the foot bah world as THE, Big Three.
seldom put a green team In the field.
Most OF the students who enter these coll
leges come from preparatory schools.
where paid coaches in. foot ball are main
tanned Exeter Andover, Lawrencevile 10
and host OF other more or leee known
prep" schools constantly send up foos
ball stars to these colleges.
On tho other hand In the middle west,
many OF the candidates for, varsity foot
ball honors never played foot ball he
fore entarinE college, OF II they did, u
was on some high school team coached
by an, ex-player. who devoted five or six
hours a week 20 the task
The wonder then IT, how men as zuppke
Of Illinois, Stage OF Chicago and yost
Of Michigan turn out winning teams.
They are the real wonder workers in
foot ball.
X. C. Zuppke. went to Illinois last year.
whipped n green team into O fighting
machine and won the championship o.
the western conference, zuppke never
played foot ball TO amount TO anythins.
While a student at the University OF
Wisconsin,. he donned the inoleskIns. but
the coach told him he was TOO light
for varsity material. But zuppke de-
clded that even though he could not play
on the team he could render aid in other
ways He stood In the side lines, Db-
served the coaching and found some
things wrong with H. He told the coaches
and-Etrange as II may seem--thog llss-
ened 10 the little lad. adopted some Of
his suggestions. and the Wisconsin team
commenced 10 improve. His aid was va =
able and during the rest OF his college
career he continued TO advise the coacne5.
After graduation. zuppke went to Mus
kegon, III, and developed championship
team. Then the Oak Park High school
engaged him as coach and he developed
a Joke team into what has been called
the champion high school team OF the
world He taught Ghee. the great Dart
mOuln UuNlAtIbuNns AtRC AhhN'Nh "AN ~A@@T
cago quarterback; Maeomber, one OF the
beat halfbacks in the middle west and a
host OF others.
Then came the offer from the uni-
versity OF Illinois last year and zrppke
accepted. The material was a joke but
Zuppke went to work With a vim
and turned out q championehip team
Illinois won every game It played last
year, better record than any other
team In the country can boast OF.
A. A. Stage has been connected with
athletics at Chicago Tor some time. For
more than fifteen years he has coached
the Chicago foot ball teams. He first
came into prominence as a pitcher on
tho Yale nine In the early eighties. ,F,of
five years he pitched the Blue into chant
pionships. Every league team was anx'
ious 70 sign stagg after he left college,
but he turned down all the flEttering
offers. While In college Stagg also played
END ON the Yale eleven TOR two years.
When he went 20 Chicago he aid moi
pay 60 much attention. to foot ball. but
as time wore on and his teams became
leaders In mid-western gridiron circles
his reputation as coach was made.
stagE has turned out some Wonderful
elevens at Chicago. Ills winners excees
| his losers by vast majority. In ths
/ old days when the Western .Conferenc'
was known as the Bic Hine.s chieags
and Michigan led the. field every year.
Fielding NJ. Yost. the famous Hurry.
Up coach at the University Of Michi
gan. learned his' first foot ball at th'
University Of Virginia. His first rea
prominence. however. was gained at Ia
fayette college. when ne played sta
tackle on tho first college eleven 10 bea
Pennsyivania when the Red and BLU
was without a peer ON the sridiron.
After two years OF playing AZ Lafay
cite. Yost started his coaching career a
Ohio Wesleyan university. A Delaware
O.. IN the fau Of 1857 About twelve mel
reported after the frat eail for candi
dates and Yost had to develop HIS team
from those men. Ohio Wesleyan had I
game with Michigan that year and Yos
took his twelve men up TO Ann Arbor 10
the gridiron fight Two men were In
Jured early IN the game. leaving Yos
with a ten-man team lie went 70 thl
Michigan coach and asked, him II Their
Was any objection 70 Yost's playing Ii
order 70 finish out the game II was I
case Of allowing Nost 20 play OF callinl
off the game, so Yost went in. The scor,
was a 0 10 0 tie.
in 1855 he went 10 kansas and ther,
developed a team that won the cham
pionship OF the trans -Mississlppl confer
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