Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-11
IMPORTANT MEETING OF
 YALE ATHLETIC COMMITTEE
Progressive Rsoommendations Will be Wednesday.

What is expected to prove the most important meeting of the Yale athle- tic committee held in years has been set down for Wednesday. night. 1t was originally scheduled for last We'd nesday. but was rather mysteriously shifted to the following week The reason for the change is understood to have been business connected with the searching investigation into Yale football which was begun about the middle of the past season and which resulted in the appointment of a special committee consisting of Vance Mccormick, Bring Thorne and John Fitzpatrick. The committee has been preparing a report of several football matters, incidentally one on the ques- ton of head coach which was not ready last Wednesday. It may not name a head coach. but it is under stood that some rather progressive recommendations will be made to the general athletic committee at the meeting.
 Contrary to general understanding the appointment of new head coach and even the establishment of coach for term of years is not regarded by the committee. by the Yale faculty and corporation. possibly not by the undergraduates and alumni as the chief work of the committee. The ap- pointment of the committee and the importance of it's work centers around three conditions in Yale athletics, of which the head coach appointment Is ranked as third First, the new com mtttee represents definite system in Yale athletics. Second, control of the football situation has been delegated by the corporation, faculty, athletic management to the committee. Third, the head football coach will be chosen as part of the new system.
 The Yale corporation and faculty re- garded undergraduate direction of football, if not of other major sports, occurrences in football and baseball during the past season. A head coach appointed by the captain of a team and dictated to by him ceased to exist probably, after the middle of the past football season. Direct control of ath- letics. through the faculty and cor pOratton, have now arrived at Yale. Vance Mccormick is the first member of the university corporation who has beer member of any athletic com mittee. Conversely, he is the first ath- lete given seat on the university cor poration and those who grumble at the loss of undergraduate control of athletics or undergraduate control athletic control or influence on the corporation. in the presence of ex- Captain Mccormick of the football eleven on the corporation, or universi- ity trustee board.
 The most significant feature of the Present special football committee of three will be the fact that its life will not end when it names a head coach but that it will continue it's existence as the controlling body of the new Yale football, if not athletic system. The committee will go right ahead, after it reports on the head coach to perfect it's, reorganization of football, to act as the system with the head coach. Another significant step which the special committee will take will be to add to it's present membership. 1t would create no surprise if, at it's meeting next Wednesday night. it should be announced by the general athletic committee that the special committee on football would hereaft- CT consist of five rather than three members, additions of possibly Pa" 7Corbin, a former captain and advisor John Field, prominent member of the football committee the past, two or three years, Guy Hutchinson, Ray Bigeiow or Burr -Chamberlin being made.
 Such a committee will compose the new Yale football system and it will be committee more directly associat- ed with the faculty and the corpora tion than any that has before con- trolled Yale football.
 If great importance is the fact that Clinton Black will be the first Yale captain who will not select either his head coach or his staff of advisors and graduate committee. Under the revised system the committee now endorsed by the faculty and corporation has that power. It has been stated that the committee of three had not yee picked a definite coach to rec omruend on Wednesday evening. It is believed that several names will be presented to that meeting. While those of Fred Murphy, Tad Jones and Fred Daly have been mentioned, most frequently that of Dr. Arthur Brides. for several years coach of the Massa- chusetts Agricultural college and at University of North Carolina, is warmly favored by some of the com mittee. He was one of Yale's best all-around players, both in the line and in the backfield, for several sea- sons and an eleven was wrecked when he was not given the captaincy he had earned by three seasons service Growing objection has been heard out of college for more than twenty years This and tho fact that Harry Williams of Minnesota is reported to have been growing deaf have hurt his candi- dacy.
 NO DEAL PENDING FOR