Evening star., 1925-01-04

cult conditions while al Gallaudet II
out of his material than Teddy Hue
Earle Nesle IS due back at Virginia.
and. despite rumo"s to tn" contrary,
Virginia is well satisfied with the
progress u has mad since Neale took
charge. Jimmy De Hart at Washing
ton aud Lee Rlandy Clarkson at Nir-
Sinia. Military Institute. Rill FetZer at
North Carolina University and Ben
Cubbage at Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute seem TO be fixtures in their
Jobs for as long as they care 20 reA
main. Shaw, In his hrst year at
North Carolina State, made consider
able progress. losing several games.
but developing q better eleven than
has represented the institution in
several years.
Navy Seeking Mentor.
About the only institU ion in this
part of the world that seems at loss
in regard to its coaching policy for
next year is the Naval Academy. II
is considered something Of mystery
why Folwell was relieved of his job
= head coach. Is almost everybody
figured that he was doing about as
we'll with Navy foot ball as could be
expected. However, Folwen Is due
10 go back to Washington and Jeffer-
son, and the Navy is seeking man
:
coach of the Yale Scrubs, has been
mentioned as Folwclrs successor, but
there is nothing definite regarding
his acceptance of the job.
The situation in the South Atlantic
section seems to be somewhat indtca-
tive of the situation elsewhere as FAR
coaching jobs are concerned. In
the North il seems that there is little
talk of changes anywhere except
Harvard. where some doubt exists as
TO just what will be done in another
season. The Crimson foot ball au-
rhoritieS are not entirely satisfied
with the way things have been going
in the last year or two, particularly
during the season which closed with
the defeat by Yale and the slaughter
by Princeton last November. Colum-
bia. of course, has an unusual situa-
tion in that il lost by death the man
whom 1t expected to continue to lead
its gridiron fortunes. and there is not
much reason for believing that it will
find another Haughton.
Only two coaching jobs in the en-
tire South are open. one 1t the Uni
versity of Mississippi and the other
at University of Florida. Each pays
an excellent SALARY and there is q
chance at each place for the right
kind of man TO work wonders.
Ball Coaches Association in New
York one of the questions discussed
very generally and specifically by
Stagg OF Chicago was that of at
tempting to find ways and means for
making the profession more stable.
1t was pointed out by Stagg that the
average life of the foot ball coach
in any one Job is only two and one
half years, which is hardly long
enough for a. man to show just what
he really is capable OF accomplishing
This phase of foot ball coaching was
brought out by Stagg in his talk,
Some Observations on How TO Be
q Successful Foot Ball Coach" Stagg
later onGred resolution that a COM
mittee be appointed to make a coun-
tr'y-wide survey of the situation and
report whether some means could be
found by which foot ball coaching
might be made more stable profess
sion.
At any gathering of foot ball
coaches some very amusing storiAs
of incidents of the gridiron season
may be heard. Down at New Orleans
recently, Alexander of Georgia Tech
told OF something that took piact in
ms game with Notre Dame at South
bend that would be hard to beat. 1t
seems that Georgia Tech had a guard
NV az " " . lAOul every game tried TO
make life somewhat miserable for
his opponents by encoura c:nr his
teammates and by saying things to
discourage his opponets. In the Notre
pame game, about the middle of the
iourth quarter, when Notre Dame had
about the last of its 81 players in the
sdhte' ana there seemed TO be no
ammunition of the amount of ground
gained or IN the excellence of the
Notre Dame play. this guard jumped
up, turned to his teammates and
said: Come on, what's the matter
fellows? Here we are letting their
seventh string men run all over US"
Ihat did not set very well with the
men In the Notre Dame lineup at
mat time, and the next play was di-
rected at that guard, with the whole
Notre Dame team concentrating its
efforts against him. After he had
untanSled himself from the mass and
dragged himself 10 his feet rather
dlzIily, the guard yelled at the ref
cree for time out. AS soon as the
referee, thinking the player was
badly hurt, allowed time out. the
suard turned TO the Notre Dame team
with these words:
Listen, fellows I didn't mean to
insult you BY golly, if you're not
the first string, you ought to be-"
BOD Auppke, responsible for Grange
and other good foot bali players at Hi
nois, in New York recently told the fol4
lowing about his center-in the game
with Iowa last fall:
In our game with Iowa we had a
center who aspired to play in the
-backffeld, but really never had car
ried the ball in his life. He also had
a habit of giving alibis. On the very
first kickoff the Iowa kicker booted
the ball mile Il minute right at this
center. Somehow or other the center
managed to hang 70 the ball. but as
soon as the ball struck him about six
of those goo pound Iowa linemen
buried him. Crawling up, bruised and
bleeding, the center turned to the
rest OF the team and yelled: Where
the hell was the interference?
Certain rumors have gone around
at various times in the last month or
two that this might be Hugo Bezdek's
last year Rt Penn State. As matter
of fact, nothing could be further from
the actual state of affairs In the
frat place. those in charge of foot
ball at Penn State are satisfied with
the results BeZdek has attained in the
time he has been coaching there, and
in the second place the former Chi
cago star is working at State under
q 10-year contract, which still has
seven years to go.
1t is somewhat OF a puzzle to the
writer just why one certain foot ball
coach In the South never has become
associated with a much larger insti-
tuition than any at which he has
coached That coach is Mike Ben