Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-15

Captain Wilson of the university football team has named Prof Robert N. Corwin, 'S7, of the faculty of the Sheffield Scientifls school as the foot bail representative on the university athletic association for the coming year, to succeed Walter Camp. 'SO. Mr Camps retirement as trea surer of the association was announced last Octo- Der. and this second step is in line With his announced intention to with draw from offices connected with ath- letics. AIr. Camps services as advisory coach to the football captain and coaches will not be curtailed by this change, and it is hoped that his gen. eral usefulness to Yale athletics will not be diminished by it, The other representatives of the captains on the athletic association are F, w. Alien, '00, crew; George B. Case '94 base ball, and J. R. Fitzpatrick, 1911, track These, with Professor CorYin and q fifth graduate to be elected, the under graduate captains and managers of the four major sports and the president of the minor sports, now form t1>~ asso- citation. The treasurer pro tenn. is Henry W. Hohson, 1914.
 Walter Cam~ who now retires from active connection with Yale athletics, will always be regarded by Yale men as the central figure around whom the university sports, and particularly football, have come to be developed to their present organization since mod ern college athletics began in the sos. Regarded by the public as the Father of American Football" MT Camp es- pecially stands among Yale men as the builder of that remarkable foot ball organization which, with the cap tains and field coaches in the fore ground and himself in continuous ad- visory relations in the background, be- came in time the most efficient and successful intercollegiate football ma chine in the country. MT. Camp played his first university game in the Yale Harvard game of 1876. Since this time MT. Camp has been interested in the football activities at Yale In 1895 he was made treasurer of the Yale Finan- cial union and in that capacity was able to set aside a reserve from annual football earnings that had become over S1O0,0O0 when the bowl was built With the adoption of the new athletic asso- cl2tion constitution in March 1912 MT Camp became the football member, chairman and treasurer Renrganiza- tion since then. coming i'll with the bowl and the larger athletic establish ment, and the permanent coaching system, has finally relieved MT Camp from the obligations of further official connection with the Yale athletic or san1zstion which he had done 50 much to build up and these offices he has
 
 his action will, however, in no wise in terfere with his continued close touch with Yale athletics.
 Prof. Robert N. Corwin, 's7, of the German department of Shelf was on the S5 and '66 football elevens and captain in his senior year. He was undergraduate delegate to the inter- collegiate conventions Of 1886 and 1887 After several years study in Germany. Professor Corwin became instructor in German at Shelf and in 1899 was made professor. As d naem- Der of the governing board of the school he has been in close and sym pathetic touch with undergraduates life and athletics for many years Of late. as chairman of the Yale entrance com mittee, he has been particularly active in Yale admission requirement. reforms and has been q freGuent speaker at many 1aie alumni dinners and thus is known to very large circle of gradu- ates.