The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-16
Eastern Officials
 Take Action on
 Sport Questions
Bx WALrER CAMP

Special Correspondent of The Age-Herald
 Copyright 1922. by The Age-Herald)
 New York, April 15.-The meeting commented upon in this column last week of the presidents of eleven col leges of New England and New York has resulted in a straight-out-from the e-shoulder resolution which may be summarized in detail as follows
 Seasonal coaches are to be replaced by the fall of 1923 with coaches who are members of the faculty, paid by the college and only by the college.
 They shall be in residence through out the year having their duties in some definite department in addi- tion to coaching. They shall be paid at the same rate as other faculty members with the same permanence of appointment and selected in the same way as the other members of tn faculty.
 Committee Appointed
 An executive committee was ap- pointed. consisting of Presidents Meik e1john of Amherst, Ogilby of Trinity and Stills of Bowdoin. Presi- dent Meikeljohn further states that this Is only the first step towtrd the abolition of professional, seasonal and intinerant."
 Moreover, he states. they will take the coach off the bench and sidelines and put him in the grandstand and will move along to the disappearance of all coaches. President Shanklin, of Wesleyan, had a siege last fall with his alumni when he put pr. Fauver, head of the physical educa- ton department, in charge of foot ball, but the president has now won his fight.
 The general criticism was voiced as to the sums now paid for coaches, several instances in particular being brought out where a coach was paid more than the president of the col lege. Altogether the completed &C., tion is not out of keeping with the valuation that eliminated in disclo- sures concerning certain Princeton athletes.
 ResuIts Expected.
 Tho action of the eleven institutes will certainly result in something morally worth while. On the other hand, they undoubtedly expect, Tor a time at least, a loss in athletic pres tfge, However, fame of the sort just now is something of a drug in the market.
 Eventually will come the inevitable reaction and then we shall be able to settle down to real comparisons.
 As the writer said the other day, the smaller colleges cannot compete in the market place for high coaches and if for no other reason than this they must come to the general di- rector of faculty coach. As for tho larger Institutions unquestionably they will continue with the seasonal specialist.
 There is right on both sides. But when all is said, the fact remains that the tendncy in coaching has been too much toward sapping the individual initiative of the player. Many great coaches of the present day recognize this. Indeed some mod ification of the present situation is already in process. If every college had corps of faculty members ex- pert in teaching sports the problem would be easily solved. Dr. Spaeth has done it for Princeton rowing. But without a Spaeth, what are the in- evitable results? Why specialists, such as John Hoyle, Jim Rice, Jim Corderry, Joe Wright and Jim Ten Eyck. Dr. Howe may solve the Har- yard problem and other pure amateur coaches may solve 1t elsewhere. But until they do, it Is likely the paid ex- pert will continue to endure, at our larger institutions at least