Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-12-07

Last year oyerconf,dence on the
part of the players cost the State
College of Washington the North
west title, although the season. on
the whole, was successful one.
This year however, the willy coach
again led his team in mighty on
slaught against all corners. Oregon
University, Whitman College. Idaho
University, Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, Montana University, and Wash
ington University were crushed under
overwhelming scores. WASHINGTON
state piled up an aggregate score of
l12 points in the six games, while its
own goal line remained inviolate.
Organization, with attendant unity
of purpose, thoroughness and deter.
mination spell the success of the
State College team. Its coach is in
s:stent and exacting, yet he is wholly
human. He treats his men as his
equals, as his friends. He advises,
rather than assails. He calls atten-
ton to faults with gentleness, rather
than with abuse and profanity. In
fact, he is a different coach.
Coach Dietz came to the State Col
lege in 1915 obessed with a definite
idea of the magnitude of the prob
lem that lay before him, yet with a
concrete plan for its solution and ex-
IRENE confidence in his ability to ac-
complsh the desired end. His plan
of action was unfolded to a news
paper reporter in few simple words
the day Of his arrival here, and the
satisfactory working out of that an
nounced plan has resulted in the
molding of three great football
teams for the State College. He
said: First of all l want the right
spirit Next in Importance is a
strong line, a line that will open
holes. An ordinary backfield can
advance the ball if he is given
the proper support by the linemen
yet the best coached backfield man
can not gain consistently through a
line that has been neglected from
coaching standpoint"
Following out this belief, Coach
Dietz gave his first attention to his
line, a system new to the Northwest
and at first scoffed at by many
Northwest coaches He developed a
line that could outcharge any other
line in the Northwest, a line that
oponed hugh holes in the opposing
defense, through which the attacking
backs plunged for consistent gains
He developed an interference for the
runner that was impenetrable. In
effect, he gave his first attention to
developing a machine that would
clear the way for the man with the
ball, making the runner himself a
secondary consideration in his coach
ing.
The efficiency of that system
heralded by Coach Dietz immediate
" upon his arrival here and followed
out by him throughout the three
wears he has coached the State Col
lege team, can not be denied in the
face of the remarkable success of his
teams.
Now for a word of history concern
ing Coach Dietz himself, the man
whose indomitable will power, deter
mination, and capability has made
the success of the State College of
Washington football team possible
Born of a white father and Sioux
mother in a tepee on the plains of
South Dakota, a full history of the
later life of William II. Uonestar)
Djetz, would be the chronicling Of a
series Of accomplishment
With the coming or normal condl-
tons following the Civil war the
Union Pacific railway undertook the
hazardous task of building a road
through the land of the Sioux In
dams in Nebraska William Wallace
Dietz. father of "Lonestar," was en-
ployed by them as civil engineer to
assist in laying out the lines, The
indians. under the guidance OF CHER
Red Cloud, objected strenuousiy 10
the encroachment upon their lands
claiming that their treaty was being
violated and their hunting grounds
broken up. Skirmishes between the