The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-06
'Why Should Yale EConon1ize?" Asks
 Metzger in Review
Famous Coach Sees No Reason Why New Haven Insti- tuition Should Be In Financial Difficulties Amateur
 Coach Probably Won't Be Satisfactory.

CT see a professional coach on the job than a good many rich alumni. The amateur coach won't solve the coach ing troub1es-it's almost entirely matter of whom the coach is respon- sible to-
 ''fWhy," and he, named a prominent figure in football, a man of wealth, if that fellow was an amateur coach at Princeton we would have the best material in the land"
 But the coaching problem and the intercollegiate athletic. problem would not necessarily be solved with any and all kinds of coaches directly respon- sible to the faculty for their work for 1 the simple reason that it has been my 1 experience that a good many mem
 bers of the faculty have red blood in their veins; they like ripping good game and they like to win. Some will work with the alumnus in winning, | too. Indeed, the further one studies this problem the earlier one comes to | the conclusion that our intercollegiate athletics, while not always ideal, are 1 about the most representative. kind of athletics American colleges can pro- duce for the reason that they appeal I to nearly every body. Yale is going
 to have a big job changing interco1- l 1egiate sport, however good the inten- l tions of it's Faculty Athletic Board. | One cannot even think that Yale IS i after rich amateur coaches such as pr. tSpaeth spoke of, men who would get l the best material in the land; but it l won't hurt to call the attention of Yale's Faculty Athletic Board to this view of the matter. given by an anna fteur coach sometime before Yale an ] nounced it was out to can the poor l pro. 1 Out West they handle intercollegiate
 sport with some hustle and they sure
 do get results. I think it was in the
 late sos that Camp began selecting
 All-American football teams, none of
 which have ever been tested About
 fifteen years later the West got. into
 the game of All-Western teams, and
 none of them have ever been, tested. But this past fall real A11-Mythica1
 football team was assembled, coached
 a few days and sent against the Camp
 Dodge eleven at Des Moines, Iowa, winning "the most remarkable grid
 iron contest ever played" q quote
 from the words of a sporting editor
 who was there) by a TO score. 1 This game was played December
 between the Camp Dodge eleven, com
 posed of former college stars, and the
 All-state eleven of Iowa, chosen by
 the three sporting editors of Des Moines. The All-Star team was gath
 cred together three days before the
 game by Coach Mayser, of Iowa State; Coach Howard Jones, of the Univer- sity of Iowa, and J. M. Sanderson, of
 Morningside College and drilled for
 three days, three times a day, in sig nals. The game was played under the most trying conditions ever experi- enced in football, the temperature be- ing below zero, the wind high and recent snowfall having added to the general misery. About 300 fans were present, so the patriotic fund for which it was played never material ized. The enrichment eleven was
 badly crippled for the encounter as
 several of it's regulars were storm
 bound and did not arrive at the field until the game was nearly over.
 "But,'' so wrote a member of the 300 present, everybody present ap-
 peared to have a good time, especially the players who came very late, as it was proven that it is possible to
 convert a mythical team into real l ity, and also that football can be play
 ed in zero weather
 Copyright, 1918, by Sol Metzger)