The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-30
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The Old Guard

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Baseball has It's managerial Old Guard
In several notable leaders. John ] Nc
Graw has been manager for fifteen
Years. Connie Mack has been in harness
for over twenty years Clark Griffith
began leading the White SoN fifteen
years ago. before he came over TO the
Yankees Stalnngs was a minor league
manager back In lS9i, twenty two ~-~is
ago, while the Brave naNiHrln was I'm
charge OF the fhilies twenty years ago.
Fred Clarke dropped out after serving
fifteen years. and there nrF others who
have led their troops through many cam
paigns
In this respect. baseball has nothing on
football The lure of the latter game IL
M strong for the coach as the lure of the
former is for the fnaraget FOo'ball can
match baseball man Tor man when u
comes 10 length OF service a. the head OF
tho line
Football Veterans
For some reason they 5eem 10 stick
around longer In The west than they do W.
| the east
/ There is Hurry-up Yost. Yost h-nkc out
as head coach exactly eighteen years
ago He handled various w-Hcrr clcycuS
before he descended upon Nichiriu NJ
teen years ago. but after reaching Ann
Arhor lie decided To cast anchor and rall
II home under the maize and blue.
one might think " Michigan without
a football team. But no one could over
think OF Michigan with Yost detached.
N0st In rs much part Of Michigan as
! tho campus. tho curriculum and the build
ing- are. lie simply belongs FIVE years
Rgu ho was offered twice his ~, larry 10
leave for another university Hr refused
| 20 even cons der the. proposition
Not 10 go back 20 Michigan NJ early
September would break In upon his No
about ns badly ~ II he should lose hotn
legs II is mcrly unthinkHhb. Fifteen
/ years.
Two Others.
/ Yost IL not the only veteran IN ~ west
There are Aonzo Stagg At Chicago and
/ Harry Williams at Minnesota Roth StaEr
and Williams are Yale mfn-rathcr, were
/ Yale men.
Today Stage and Chicago arc prsctl-
cally one and the same IN n football wav
The same is true OF Williams and Mime
sofa
Stage has been at Chicago even longer
than Yost has befu at Michigan. The old
Man OF the Midway left Yale nearly
thirty wears ago, and he has been ~
! Chicago the greater part OF twenty wears
Williams has been NJ Minnesota almost
as long. All three have served upon an
average Of twenty years and for gooo
part Of this time the, were rryala OF cN-
traordlnary intensity
In the Old Days. -
,,,,," ~ " i,,V'' p''ts W.
W'inains, representing M!chpnn. Ihlcogt
and Minnesota, fought out wars mat have
never been approached In the west MOI
surpassed IN the east
iost throush thls period had NJ
efehtest Teams ana u was not untu en-
cago hcat nm " that Slsgf nnaNN
stopped tho wolverine charge Nost u
those days had su,h stars as hrston
snow McGulh' hcddcn, MHtkcs' Ham
WIN, ,,. M So,'a,ocn., ,ia. ,n ,satN W.,
never quite able until last wear to check
the march OF the Maize and Blue
In four years Michigan ran up % point
against Chicagos ~, but when 'he Ma
room team finally triumphed, II was dc
cided that the rivalry had passed tn,
safety point, so the bls annual baltic wa.
aba ndoned
II has been eleven years nJy sine.
Michigan met Chicago. and II win hc
great day for western football when tn
two meet again.
In tho east Walter Cnmp. ~, Val,
scion. was tho dean OF ali coarncs b,l
for a long time hn has acted only in al
advisory capacity According TO Yos,
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