Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-23
Rx SOL METzGER

\ Coach Washington and Jefferson Foot ball Team
 seThe AlI-American team," so Walter Camp writes. s.fs picked primariy foI it's ability to win games and secondly as a reward of merritt
 To date no All-American team has won a game in thirty odd seasons of football: which puts quite crirnp iIl the primary reason. And why not since it appears necessary to reward merit, confer the iron cross? Divine right and sAIl-American teams are splendid bed-fe1lows. But there is not much reason for either-positively none in a. democracy.
 Williams college, in spite of it's marked presidential sIeanings toward intramatural sport has secured Ira Thomas, of the Philadelphia Athletics, as baseball coach. Williams did not have the necessary coin in it's athletic treasury to get a special coach but a friend of the college, who is not a graduate and who will not permit his name to be given in this connection, made the deal and has presented Thomas to Williams At one time during the early negotiations Connie Mack was being carefully considered as the proper baseball guide. At any rate, whatever others think, Williams believes Mack is still able to deliver another S100,000 college inf1eld. Prob ably, if Connie was consulted, he evil
 
 sanctuary for the time being How unlike ex-President Taft he is.
 Washington & Lee University, coach CT very successfully in football for some three years by logger Elcock, the former Dartmouth star, is about to adopt a system of graduate coach ing in all branches of sport. Elcock has resigned to give full time to busi- ness. It remains to be seen if the ideal plan advocated by so many is to prove a success at w. & l..
 Football coaches come and go but the graduate system, with few eXcep- tions, has not proven a success. Glenn Warner and Fielding Yost coaches of Pittsburgh and Michigan respectively, have longest been in service of the big fellows. Neither is a graduate of the institute whose team he coaches. Harvard is the only notable exception in the East, but not until it's eleven had passed through years of failure. Yale has again gotten away with it after many years of defeat. Prince tons successes with the system in a period of twenty years could be count ed by child of three Pennsylvania, is right now enjoying a furry in gradu- ate coaching quotations but its most consistent and telling gridiron record Yale, twenty years back. CornelPs s graduate system was complete fail- ure. Dartmouth hasn't much to brag about.
 
 that have assumed gridiron supremacy at various times Brown, under Robin son, and Penn State, under Harlow, both graduates of these respective in stitutions, have been uniformly sue cessful but they have not reached any higher pinnacIes than either Colgate or Washington & Jefferson, both small colleges, coached by Dartmouth and Pennsylvania men. Bankhart, the Col gate tutor, has worked wonders and Folwell, now at Penn, certainly gave W. & J. gridiron joy-ride.
 In the West the Conference teams have invariably sought football tutors in the open market Chicago, Minne- sota and Northwestern have Yale coaches; Illinois, Ohio State and 1ndi- ana, Wisconsin graduates; Purdue a Holy Cross teacher; Wisconsin, a flock of Harvard men of the Haughton school and Michigan has Yost, who is a West Virginia product, all reports to the contrary in the Football Guide notwithstanding.
 In the far West, Washington has defeated seasons under Dobie, Min nesota man and the other Pacific Coast teams are in the same boat. California made a new start ast fall, necessarily under a non-graduate sys- tenn.
 The graduate system is ideal on