The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-06

While it is pleasing to note that Yale is coming back to the intercol- legiate sport world it is somewhat dis concerting to notice in the announce ment of this fact that Yale is going to eliminate the professional coach, Professor Corwin's words are a fact, Yale will, in the future, have no need for men like Johnny Mack and Tad Jones. This being so we can look forward to the day when Johnny Over ton, Yale's recent. great runner and 'Cupid"- Black, Yales last great foot ball leader, will be asking for leave from the Marine Corps and the Navy to talk with Professor Corwin.
 Yale has been attempting some sort of athletic reform during the Hull in sport at New Haven, but the result proposed will not meet with much approval. The game at New Haven was to do something. big in athletic reforms; so if the professional coach is to go Yale has done that job far better than was to be expected. What Yale has been figuring on doing in intercollegiate sports is much mat ter of guess. What she is going to do is matter of public record, if the statement recently given out by Pro- lessor Corwin, Chairman of the Facul- ty Athletic Board, is correct. But why such step?
 | True, Yale is after financial reform in. intercollegiate athletics. Conner cialism must evidently cease and to +1,i coach iG to be discarded. Just why Yale should | be seeking economies is beyond the | friends of Yale. For many years Yale | has been paying small college foot l ball teams as much as five and six I hundred dollars in the way of guaran- | tees to appear in the Bowl before crowds close to 20,000. These other teams have financial troubles but just how Yale has them is difficult to see. Yale should have money to burn" in an athletic sense.
 Even Yale, in this period of national stress, may be. wrong in it's present view of athletics. Up to date Yale practically admits being wrong which is always a good way to start life anew. Yale admits having found that informal sport is not success But if Yale is to enter the formal sport world, as she intends to do, isn't Yale doing the wrong stunt in canning Johnny Mack? Which is just what would happen if the new scheme is to be lived up to.
 Not that professional coaches can not be improved upon; not that they sometimes get too much money an6 toJJ ipt haf ho teur coach, presumably one who works for the love of the game, may not prove a solution to the problem Hof establishing intercollegiate athletic: upon this new and presumably Utop- ian basis, which we are continually reading about, but which has not ye l been defined.
 | The other day I met Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, Princeton professor, who i: the Tigers successful rowing coacf and an amateur at that. Dr. Spaetf has turned out crews at Princeton il recent years which were faster thai those of Cornell Harvard, Yale, Co
 lumbia and Penn in actual competi tion. Dr. Spaeth is a whirlwind a
 this coaching job and evidently ha
 thought a lot about it. At any rat
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 thing. He had been reading an articl'
 in this column on college coaches.
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 a corresponding amount of good, al depending upon whom he is respon sible to. If the coach is responsible t
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