Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-08

practically admits being wrong which is always a good way to start life anew Yale admits having found that informal sport is not a success But if Yale is to enter the formal sport world as she intends to do, isn't Yale doing the wrong stunt if. canning Johnny Mack? which is just what would happen if the neis scheme is to be lived up te.
 Not that professional coaches cannot be improved upon; not that they some times get too much money and all that The point is that the amateur coach presumably one who works for the love of the game, may not prove a solution to the problem of establish ing intercollegiate athletics upon this new and presumably Utopian basis, which we are continually reading about, but which has not yet been defined
 The other day I met Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth. a Princeton professor who is the Tigers successful rowing coach and an amateur at that. Dr. Spaeth has turned out crews at Princeton in recent years which were faster than those of Cornell. Harvard Yale, Col 1 umhia and Penn in actual competi- tion. Dr. Spaeth is Whirlwind at this coaching job and evidently has thought a lot about it. At any rate he began talking on the subject first thing. He had been reading an arti- cle in this column on college coaches. The whole thing in this college coaching business is a question of re- ] spoIIsibility," said Dr. Spaeth. Tt makes no difference whether the coach iS; amateur or professional either can I do an equal amount of harm or a ceres bonding amount of good all de- 1 asndtre upon whom he is responsible tf Il the coach is responsible to the ] IacLsisH his troubles in regard to ii : iJaiJg5 necessary to win are pretty well /. s-'it.ed otit. If he is responsible to the . iu5bs. the alumni and following of inc i ct'l'cga'S athletic prestige. I'd rather i see g professional coach on the jot ] tLl&n ( good many rich alumni The ! aInat@lIr5 coach won't solve the coach :, ing trooales--it's almost entirely a i matter of whom the coach is responsi- { ble to-
 Why" and he named prominent | figure in football man of wealth. ''h 1 the fellow was an aamteur coach ai i Princeton we would have the best ma terial in the land"
 1 But the coaching problem and the intercollegiate athletic problem would not necessarily be solved with anss and 1 all kinds of coaches directly responsi- ble to the faculty for their work for the simple reason that it has been my experience that a good many members i of the faculty have red blood in theil veins; they like a ripping good game
 and they like to win. Some will worl | with the alumnus in winning, too. In deed, the further one studies this pro-
 blem the earlier one comes t0 the con
 cloSion that our intercollegiate atla-
 letics while not always ideal, srt about the most representative kind c1
 athletics American colleges can pro
 duce for the reason that they appe&
 to nearly everybody Yale is soinz u
 have a. big job changing intercollegiate sport. however, good the intentions O it's Faculty Athletic Board. One can
 not even think that Yale is after rice l amateur coaches such as Dr. Spaetf spoke of. men who would get the bes material in the land; but it won hurt to call the attention of Yak'e Faculty Athletic Board to this view of the matter given by an anaateul coach sometime before Yale annOure
 ed it was out to can the poor pro.
 Out West they handle intercollegiate sport with some hustle ard they sur'
 do get results. I think 1t was in tn,
 
 ] All American football teams none ot which have ever been tested. Abou
 fifteen years later the West got int
 the game of All Western teams, an< none of them have ever been tested
 But this past fall real All MythicA
 football team was assembled coachet few days and sent agatnst the Csznl Dodge eleven at Des Mcines, Iowa winning the most remarkable grid iron contest ever played Q quD<,
 from the words of a sporting edft0s who was there3 by 70 score.
 This game was played December between the Camp Dodge eleven, com posed of former college stars. and tn, All-State eleven of Iowa, chosen b.
 the three sporting editors of De.
 Mefnes The An Star team va.
 gathered together three days befor the game by Coach May ser, Of low.
 State; Coach Howard Jones, Of tn University of Iowa, and J. M. Sand
 efson, of Morningside College an, drilled for three days. three times
 day, in signals.
 The game was r4ayed under tts
 most trying conditions ever experienc } ed in football. the temperature bein
 below zerov the wind high and a re cent snowfall having added to tn general misery. About 20 fans wer
 present so the patriotic fund fo which it WAs played never materifized , The cant0nnsent eleven was badi , crippled fur the encounter as severa . of it's regulars were storm bound an , did not srrive at the field until tn game was nearly over.
 But" so wrote a member of the 30 1 present seve,-vhody present anrea re