The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-15
ELEVENS OF Big TEN
WILL Be DIRECTED
BY VETERAN COACHES
(Ry Associated Press

CHICAGO, Sept. IS = Veteran
coaches will direct the work of each
of the ten football teams of the West
ern intercollegiate Conference this
season. Stage and Williams and Yost,
if not already the Nestors among &C
tive coaches of the sport, are rapidly
approaching HISTORIAN honors. The
other seven coaches will average a
decade of active work in the field and
all have been tried in their present or
other positions.
The list of head coaches for the
coming season follows:
Chicago, A. A. Stagg; Illinois, R. c..
Zuppke; Indiana, E. O. Stiehm; Iowa,
Howard Jones; Michigan, Fielding H.
Yost; Minnesota, DR.. H. l.. Williams;
Northwestern, Elmer w. McDevitt;
Ohio, j. w. Wilce; Purdue, w. H.
Dietz; Wisconsin, John R. Richards.
Strange as it may seem, not one
of the above names appears in the
games history book, in which are kept
the records OF runs, of drop and place
kicks and other details of the spectac-
ular and the unusual. Possibly this is
because too many of them were line
men in their playing days.
Possibly it is because some of them
played so far back in the history of
the game that authentic data is not
available. But these same record
books contain the names of Blanchard
of Harvard, 1875; Thompson, Yale,
1876 Gushing, Harvard, 1877; Holmes
Harvard, 1877; Lee, Pennsylvania,
1878; A. H. Cults, Princeton, 1878;
McNair, Princeton, 1879; and the COM
paratively modern Bull of Yale in 1888
From these names and dates the
records verge towards modernity with
the acts of the O'Deas, Herschbergers,
Potters, Vandoozers, Poes, Shevlins,
Camps, DeWitts. Knipes, Ames, Hares,
Woodruffs, Thorpes, Marshalls. Hin
keys, Phil Kings, Hestons, Weeks,
Eckersalls, Stanford Whites, Brick
leys, Mahans and Bradens whose acts
have brought the occupants of many
football stands to their feet with some
piece of accuracy, strategy and daring
Great Obhervers.
Nowhere in this list of the great
departed is found one of the names
of a head coach of the big Ten. al
though their playing days were scat
tered through the years between the
beginning of the game and a decade
ago. Possibly the qualities which
made them great coaches, observers
OF the game, are not the ones that
seize the psychological moment to
appear in the limelight.
Only one new conner appears in the
list, w. H. Dietz, coach elect at
Purdue. Lone Star Dietz is the only
original American" in the present
list. He is the first Indian ever to
head a team of the big Ten It is
remembered in this statement that
Biz Juneau, of family proud of
the distant blood of patrician red men
was once head coach at Wisconsin.
Dfetz is more recent player at
Carlisle and in the seven or eight
years since he left the Pennsylvania
school, he has had valuable experience
as a coach. He will be one of three
Indians at the head of representative
teams this year, the other being A.
A. Exedine, coach at Georgetown Uni
versity, Washington, D. c., and G. A.
WEIGH, coach of Washington State
College, Pullman, Wash.
Elmer McDevitt, coach at North
western, is next in the list, beginning
bis second year, but his coaching ex-
perience goes back a decade at least
and he had good experience as line
captain in his playing days. The other
coaches have five years or more in
their present positions, the years in
service ranging from Wilce at Ohio. to
Stage and Williams, who are we'll past
a quarter century of service.