The sun., 1916-10-15
DIVIDING Line
IN GRIDIR0N GAME
NO LONGER EXISTS
Smaller colleges Must Now r.
considered i'm Ratiny Elcvcns
for Season.
at Atty OF PLAYERS
OUTDOES QUANTITY
n, sOI. METZGER.

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,rsor Football Tenn.
rs Bs -Four. the Big Six and ti.
sr Nine no longer stand supreme In
.,otSeu. The line between victory and
asSsst cannot now separate large and
mali colleges. Siwash 'rcmbles not To-
i,v IN the classic university stadium be-
,o-. the kickoff but goes about It's busi-
,e., Of winning without Harry or FUN
,s Football has become u sporting
,-opositior based on scientific principles
men to all, aud the upsc:s In scores can
;. traced 20 this. The coach has spread
,,sse principles from oas TO coast.
Re~ause Of the coach many sIrall col
,.sas have defeated the two past masters
d, Eastern football--Yale and p-nnsyl-
van,s--and similar results have hap
osned everywhere. And because of him
cams lacking somewhat In material
rave whipped those wealthy in the same.
Such results, although We are slow 10
sccustom ourselves to them. are but
~rstu,al. The large unive rsities developed
football. therefore they were first to
study It's principles. As the game grew
N favor their graduates as coaches
spread IT, gospel throughout the land
sVSn 10 ~ UIVpdth''is ~ si'oir. .NtW
ne small college Ia ii: ,1cialiy able to
,ecure competent coachcs. and with them
came the upsets which sstonished the
football world. There IL no reason why
the material for the small team should
not equal that " the large one. In fact,
the small college graduate is usually
more loyal than the unive rsity alumnus
ard will make a greater effort to have
pomieine players enter his alma mater.
Quality BiGgest Factor.
Yielding II. Yost of Michigan stated
l,st year that the coach who had fifteen
good men was In n position to whip any
team. regardless OF the size Of the IN
stitut!on II played. In short. that quality
not quantity counted.
In this struggle between the large and
small colleges for football supremacy
there Is but one factor In favor Of the
first. and that Is n coaching stan In
place Of the individual coach. The small,
College must hold to the one coach idea
for financial reasons. While the former
4. preferable. there have been sufficient
victories won by the one coach plan to
prove It's worth.
m the stan Of coaches idea the head
coach must boss the Job and see that
hs Ideas are carried out by mis- assist.
ants. He has little time for actually
coaching players. His duty ia To map
the campaign In advance Of each day
and then see that each assistant car
res ou, his ideaA watching their work
10 that II will At In with the scheme
Of team play and development. He is
a foolish a. the superintendent OF a
steel mill who gives his time to detail
work II he devotes his afternoons TO
ind!vidua! Instruction. Such a system
o! coachirc must he scientifically man
aged. Ya.c ird Pennsylvania failed be-
cauae II was not.
This plan IL theoretically superior to
the individual coach scheme because II
more rapidly weeds out the culls from
he material and thus permits the earlier
selection Of the team, upon who's men,
bers the coaching can be concentrated
The individual coach at best can watch
but one or two players In "A scrlmmage.
whereas the assistants Of u head coach
an watch every player NJ all times. II
Is a tribut. 10 the genius of the single
poach that his clevens have sometimes
been able 10 defeat those produced by "a
IAN Of coaches. There are reasons for
tAls.
In the irst place, the single coach has
" men trying for the team. n in
practice not theory--ne actually Sc
!-cts his men and develops team play at
IN earlier stage than does the stan OF
coaches with a wealth of material. His
weakness, as a rule. Is In capable sub
%s'''utes, In the second place. the small
oo!lese has an uphill fight all acasor.,
and uphill lights breed fighters and
automatically discard loafers. II the in
dividual coach knows his business ne is
lsely to spring surprises on the big
tears.
Knowing his business Is the key 70 the
situation with either the head coach or
he single coach. The qualities which
hr5s success are much the same. What
these qualities are may we'll be asked.
lush Proves Exception.