The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-28
COACH IS NOT ALL
Bob FOlweH Exemplifies Va
carries of Football.
Success at w. and j., He's a
Failure at Penn, 1t Seems.

New York, Oct. 2S.-The vagaries
of football are exemplified in the case
of Bob Folwell.
Bob coached the Washington and
Jefferson eleven for a number of
years. He had to recruit his eleven
from student enrolment of less than
500. Yet for three seasons he gather
the football world. In 1913 the w.
and J. crew rolled up something like
BAT points and held the powerful Yale
team to a scoreless tie. In 1914 the
Folwell tutored crowd wailoped Yale,
came within point of defeating Har-
ward and steam-rolled all its other
foes. His 1915 eleven also beat Yale
and crushed the majority of the other
teams against which it was pitted.
1t used to be said in those days:
IF Folwel ever got a job as coach
of a team from a big university, he
would assemb Bile a machine that would
be the sensation of the football
world"
His Big Chance Now.
Well Folwell has his chance this
year-the very chance he has yearned
for so long-and success has not come
to him. He is at the helm of the
University of Pennsylvania skiff, and
already it has gone on the rocks of
defeat. Folwell. in recruiting his 1916
times as much material to draw from
as he had in the w. and ]. days, yet
his outfit doesn't size up in any way
as powerful as were the 1913, 1914
| and 1915 machies that he welded.
How shall one account for it? Ger
tainly nothing is wrong with Folwell
He is just as great coach today as
| he ever was-and he has ranked long
as one of the wonders of the gridiron
The material he has in Pennsy looks
on paper-to be twice as good as ever
| was placed before him in w. and ]
! But the Pennsy team that Folwell has
| placed together hasn't displayed any.
thing that merits it one-fourth the
| conSideration-and acclaim-of those
great w. and j. elevens
Is it that the men of Pennsy lacl
the sublime courage and splendid
fighting spirit of the boys of Wash.
| ington and Jefferson who have mad.
its teams among the most feared il
America?
Anent Yale
Sometimes it's the men who MAX.
the football teams great; on the othel
occasions it's the coaches. Yale is al
illustration.
Frank Hinkey, one of the creates
stars that ever scintillated in the grid
ironed sky, had charge of Yale's foot
bail destiny year ago. He had. ma
terial-plenty of it. He had some mel
season But he couldn't produce
winner. Instead, he recruited tn
worst football team that ever Tough
under the Blue standard.
The fault wasn't Hinkeys, as re
CARDS the lack of Judgment. H
knows a footballer when he sees one
and, left alone, he might have pu
together real team. But he wa
hampered by fraternity politics; h
permitted a boy to dominate him; t
tell him what he should and shouldn'
do. There was Hinkey's grave error
He should have risen up and com
manded football affairs at Yale. Blu
ne didn't-and Yale of 1915 wa
wrecked on the siding of defeat
Jones Different Man.
Now comes Tad Jones. He's a foot
ball student but it is doubtful If h
knows more about the technique I
the game than Hinkey. But Jones Ia
a different personality; one that in
spires, even while it rules. Jones
boss of Yale, and altho the materis
Of 1916 doesn't look to be much su
perior to that which Hinkey had i
hand last year, the results are vast
ly different Yale has come back
and with a hurran that is ringing thr
the land; with a rush that promises t
send it again to the heights of til
football world.
Jones is a leader of men; one VIII
can influence his following to wor
and to fight beyond themselves; on
subordinate. Hinkey was not Dor
leader. And so he failed, where Jone
has made good, thus showing that
Yale's case, at least, it's the coach ths
made the team