The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-17
DOES MATERIAL
/. OR COACH MAKE
A GRID winner?
Question Has Been Proved Rn-
Both Sides in Number of
Instances.

Der of little hamlet colleges with
ambitions toward the peaks a.
football greatness shout:
Give US a Charley Moran
Hugo Bezdek or a Gil Dobie ana
wen do Centre."
Which brings up the Old. ola
question:
How much has a coach tn do
with the development of a team,
The old timers say-~Not Dueb
It's all up to the squad"
The disciples of the modern ean.
differ in the belief that the coar5
makes the materiaI-or at Ieag
makes it produce
On bare results of the past sea
son, it is possible to point out SEW.
eral examples that seem to shov
1t is not all to have a great coach
From an enrolment of over sew
en- thousand, John Heisman. who
came up from Georgia Tech re-
garded as one of the greatest
coaches in the game has failed 10
produce any kind of a team az
Pennsylvania His eleven this year
was a terrible disappointment He
1nnmates there is a lack of inter
est among the undergraduates.
Glenn Warner made a wonderful
name producing winners among the
Carlisle Indians and his record has
been consistently good at Pitts
bugh- Early in the past season.
officials working in the Pitt games
said he had one of the greatest
teams of the year yet it fioundered
around and finished down the list
Buck ONeil is rated as one of
the best mentors in the game vet
from among the thousands Of stu-
dents at Columbia he has failed To
produce anything but a joke team.
He blames it on the lack Of college
spirit.
Major Charley Daily, one Of the
greatest players of past years and
one of the smartest coaches In the
game has had no success at West
Point With the pick of the land
at his command and with most
everything conductive 10 the deTel-
opment of a great team, his Army
eleVens have lost three years in
succession to the Navy.
On the other hand there were az
many examples of what a high
class coach can do in making a
team
Cornell hadn't done much in the
way of football until this year when
Gil DObie turned out 4 powerful
eleven that ranked within the first
-hree in the east Dobie believes in
systems. Last year he worked fur
he future Cornell had only a fair
cam in 1920, but this year it
1loomed out as q wonderful CON-
Dination- Dobie also laid the foun-
1ation for the great teams that are
now being turned out at the Naval
academy.
Washington and Jefferson had
been an in-and-outer until this
year. When Earl Greasy" Neale,
we'll known National league base
ball star. took charge of the squad
asst fall he said he believed he had
he markings of good team Skep-
les took it for youthful optimism
1ut they have changed their minds
As he turned out one Of the best
cams in the east.
Penn State had what was rated
IS the best team in the east this
rear and one of the best in the
1t was q great team in
$40, but when June graduation cut,
lown the great Charley Way, Hink-
y Hams, Brown, Beck, Schuster,
Hess and Rauch, the dope
tiers remarked Hugo Bezdek will
lave a hard time next year," He
a bunch of new stars and
urned out his great team, among
hem being the AIl-American back,
ilenn Killinger, an Out-and-ouL
'roduct of Bezdek's, as he had new
r played football until he came to
penn State
Knute Rockne has developed the
Iabit of turning out a winning
cam every fall at EOtre Dame. HIS
quad is the greatest aggregation
f alI-around talent ever seen on a
-ridiron. When the wonderful
George Gipp died last winter, il
vas thought the H0Os.ers would
ave lean year this year but
cockne uncovered three or four
acks that stepped into Gipps
hoes.
The midshipment at Annapolis
re going through the greatest Pc
iod of football success in the his
Dry of the academy. Bob FolEelI
) being given due credit 1t is
rue that Gil Dobie might have lald
ne foundation, but FOlWell 10
uilding expertIy. He had one Oh.
ne incest working teams IN me
asst this year and with the mate
ial at hand and the freedom grant
to him in his work, he should
ave even greater success.
It seems after all that It IS
$50 question and no set rule ap-
lying in individual cases Iad
ones is making a success OF us
eW system at Yale. and Bob FISH
r is falling down on the H0ugA-
IN system at Harvard Bill Roper
consistently good at Princeton
at the greatest coach in the game
ant beat an injury jinx that
Woops down now and then
Material is very necessary LOT
Iccass. The finest clay from tAe
arth does not make sculptor