Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-27
VET VET COACHES
FEW In The MO.
CONFERENCE
Owens Of Oklahoma Only
One to Hold Position as
Head Coach Over a Year

Chicago, Aug. 97.-veteran coach
es. me who have spent years in the
individual positions, will be missing
in the history Of this years Missouri
valley conference football.
So great have been the changes in
the big conference, west of the Mis-?
stssippi river in the recent months
that B. G. Owens Of the University of
Oklahoma will be the only head
coach. with more than a years tenure
of office. Owens las been at Okla
homa for a number Of years, but last
year was his schools first champion
ship In the conference. He had met
conference teams on even terms,
however, and the team he piloted to
the valley championship was as we'll
known to the players of the valley as
that OF any OF the schools with a pre-
vious membership in the organiza-
ton.
Second Years Work.
Three schools will have coaches
enjoying their econd year Of work
under the rather ideal conditions of
sport competition the organization of
fers. These schools are Grinnell with
w. H. Saunders, the Kansas Aggies
with Charles w. Bachmau and Wash
ington university with G. L.. Rider.
Bud" Saunders was a quarterback
on the University of Missouri a de-
cade ago and is an athletic product
Of the district. Charley Bachman
was one of the stars in football and
track at Notre Dame until war time
and Rider had his training at Olivet
college with later work at Harvard.
Bachman was the observed Of these
men in the first year in the valley
because of his team holding the Ok
lahoma team to a tie.
Drake university, Iowa State COL
lege, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri
universities all have new head coach
es. The new mentor at Drake is Os-
a Solen. formerly end at the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Iowa State
Kent former big league pitcher and a
graduate and former player of the
University of Iowa as football
strategist. Nebraska, through the in
terest of F. W. Leuhring, turned to
the east and selected F. w. Dawson,
Princeton mar and former coach at
Columbia as leader. Owen Frank, a
Nebraskan will be his assistant. Kan
sas named an assistant Of before the
war days, George "Potsy" Clark, for
mer quarterback of the University of
Illinois and Of the winning football
team in the A.. E. F. championship.
Missouri. following the resignation Of
Coach Miller late in the summer ad-
yanced his assistant, James Phelan,
former end and captain at Notre
Dame to the position of head coach.
While all but Dawson are young men,
they have had experience in coaching
that attracted the attention Of the
schools engaging them.
Solen. before the war was a high
school coach and since he shed the
bars of a captain he has piloted the
Luther college team Kent has beer
assistant football coach at the Uni
versitv of Iowa and an assistant at
Wisconsin. Dawson, in addition to
his work at Columbia, coached the
freshmen at Princeton and last year
was at the head of one of the Col
orado schools. Clarke was last years
head coach at Michigan Agricultural
follege. while Phelan has had three
years as an assistant.
Middle West Men.
All the coaches of the valley ex-
cept1ng Dawson are of the middle
west. Owens played at Kansas be.
fore going to the University of Penn.
%sylvania. Bachman played in the
Pacific northwest before entrance al
Notre Dame. The rest were trained
and spent most of their lives between
Michigan I'M Missouri.
Active football practice in the con
ference will start about the middle Of
September, most of the schools open.
Ing during the second or third weel
OF that month. Conference rules
frown upon practice before the star,
OF schools. Most OF the schools have
found it impossible to get a squad
together before class room work i.
initiated. Beginning then coache.
will have a month$for the condition.
ing and training of teams before the
games for the conference champion