The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-21
Pittsburg Announces New Coaching
 Policy
By WALTER CAMP
Special Correspondent of The Age Herald
 lCopyright. 1922. by The Age -HersId)

Special Correspondent of The Aee.HeraId
 Copyright. l92e. by The Age -HersId)
 New fork. May 20.-The University of PittsDurg announces the. policy qf gradually Installing the graduate sys- tenn of coaches.
 It has been evident that this movement was coming ever since Glenn Warner, the Panther coach. signed his football contract with Stanford. The positions of varsity basketball and track coaches were the first to feel the effects of this and no doubt when Warmers time is up some alumnus will take his place in charge of the football squad,
 The trend shown at Pittsburg Is by no means confined to that institution. Never has there been such turmoil over the coaching situation as now exists generally among sour colleges. Dean Mickiejohn of Amherst. pre- cipitated the present state of affairs by advocating the abolishment of Ell paid coaches. Now the discussion in- wolves the whole structure of ath- letics. This being so. 1t is timely to glance over the field and gather, if possible, q clear perspective of pres ent conditions.
 Amateur Coaching
 Dean Briggs of Harvard, wrote in the Atlantic Monthly in 1918 the following; Some persons favor strictly amateur coaching. Theorct- ically We all favor it. just as thco- retically we all favor peace Prac- tically. you get better results with a coach, who. being paid for certain work, performs it, and being r e to ultimately controlled by them Year in and year out the amateur who has his expenses paid is more demoralz- ing than the professional responsible to his employers and to this job"
 The magazine published by the Saw age School of Physical Education says: Coaches should be selected in the same way as other members Of the faculty, be resident teachers on the staff of physical education, paid by the university. and at the sane time. rate as other members of the faculty
 pr. James c. Mackenzie, head mas ter of Lawreneeville school for some years, wrote in 1893 criticising football severely, saying that these hippodrome athletics place scholar slip in an unfair position.' adding that if one of his students discovered the law of gravitation. the perform ance would be but lightly esteemed in this day of athletics. Dr. Mac kenzie's day, it should be remem- bered, was in the early nineties.
 Large sums Taken
 He cites the 10000 gate receipts a. football games. Today money tak.n in at single football game will run up to three and four times Dr. Mac kerzie's s40,00o. And there are staffs of coaches for every branch of ath- letics. In fact. the dollars taken in at the football gate practically sup ports four-fifths of the general ath- letic activities in any one of 3ur large colleges today.
 Well, there is the situation Shall we cast out our specialists. thereby diminishing the quality of expertness in play2 If so, will interest in Che various games run as high as today7 If 1t does not, where shall be found the funds to support many desirapIe non productive sports which are 70 valuable as adjuncts to our physical culture system? Or are colleges bet ter off without games at which gate receipts obtain? Again shall inter- collegiate contests as we now know them be eliminated? These are few of the questions that must be con s;dered as complementary to the main issue over the. professions Il coach.