El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
CORNELL KEEPS
CLEVER COACHES
Signing of Moakley to Ten
Year Contract Is in Line
With Regular Policy.

New York. Feb. 1.-The
ment that Cornell University Athletic
association has signed coach Jack
Moakley to a 10 year contract to train
the Ithaca track team, is another ex-
ample Of the manner in which Cornell
looks ahead in the matter of collegiate
and intercollegiate sports. MOakley
came TO Cornell II years ago and since
1899 has had charge of the track and
cross country squads without a break
II he lives out the term OF his new
contract with Cornell he VIII have
served the Red and White for q
years. record which is unequalled
in this line Of varsity sport at this
time.
Like coach Courtney Of the rowing
department, Moakley has become q fix
ture at Cornell. Some years ago after
a notable victory for the Ithaca uni
versity track team. Moakley, like
Courtney. was given a handsome home
by the alumni n underclassmen so
that today both Courtney and MOaklev
are as much a part Of Cornell and
Ithaca as the oldest inhabitant. MOak-
ley's children have grown up and been
graduated from Cornell and so far as
one can look into the future Moakley
will complete his active career at Cor
nell
same With other Coaches.
In signing Moakley to another long
term contract Cornell has taken time
by the forelOck and prevented any
rival university from lifting the famous
coach.
The same method was pursued. to
some extent, in the case Of Or. Al
Sharpe, the football coach. n as a
result when Yale alumni expressed the
desire that Sharpe return to New
Haven and lift Eli football to a win
ming plane, it was found that he was
under a five year contract with four
wears vet TO run.
With Courtney, MOakley and Sharpe
all signed up for some years, major
sports at Cornell are in the hands OF
excellent coaches, satisfactory to stu
dents. alumni and faculty. No greater
honor can come to Moakley except his
selection as coach of an American
Olympic games team and at the next
revival Of this great international
meet it is almost certain that he will
he the choice for the position left
vacant by Miks Murphy's death.
Expeet Few Changes in Rules
The two day meeting Of the inter-
collegiate football rules committee set
for New York February % and 26 is
not likely to. develop any radical
changes i'm the playing code for next
season. Parke Davis, the Princeton
university delegate to the meeting in
discussing possible action at the con-
ference. said recently:
From the east arises a cry that
to secure a touchdown the ball should
be actually touched behind the goal
line. From the west comes a sugges-
ton that the try for goal following a
touchdown should be abolished The
movement to require the ball actually
to be touched dow behind the line to
constitute a touchdown arises from
the disputes Of spectators following
two instances in the major games of
the east in which some of the latter
believed that the ball in each instance
actually crossed the line, although the
officials in these games ruled other
wise.
The movement to abolish the goal
following a touchdown has always a
its advocates and has been strongly
advanced many times before the rules
committees. The goal after touch
down. however, has been and should
be retained in the game because of its
great historical interest, because 1t is
an attractive feature OF play and be-
cause no sound argument has been or
can be advanced for its elimination.
One Defect Needs Rectifylng.
"A feature of play that really calls
for action is the practice which APP
peared here and there during the fall
among players on defence Of ignoring
the flight Of the ball on a forward pass
and deliberately putting the player
trying to recover the ball out OF the
play by violent 'body-blocking' at the
expense of a 10 yard penalty. This
Is the only glaring defect that the
threshing season of 1915 disclosed in
the present rules