Evening star., 1927-10-20

@HICAGO, October 20.-En
route East from journey
which involved a great many
~ of the important foot ball
playing universities Of the
country the writer takes with him
freshened impressions not only OF the
richness of personality OF the coaches
beyond the Alleghanies, but the seri-
Gus way in which they are commit
ting themselves to their trust.
For the coaching of a foot ball
squad is in it's very highest sense
trust. No one, certainly not the pro-
fessors. not even parents, comes 50
close to young men at a formative
period in their age as the foot ball
coach. Most of the students he en-
counters are moved by very high
and unselfish motive-which is love
Of their university. In behalf of this
they toll like galley slaves and suffer
injury, extreme WEAKNESS and bodily
discomfort in uncomplaining silence.
They are moved by an ideal higher
perhaps than they will ever again
| know.
Hence the coach catches them with
their guards down, and no older man
| can be more influential for good or
bad than at such time.
| 1t is greatly to the credit of foot
| ball that the game in its very essence
| is not homelke to the coach who is
| not morally sound, who is not actu-
| ated by decent standards. There have
| been such coaches. but they have not
| endured to any extent, and today the
coaching guild North, East, South
| and West is very largely made up of
men who take their responsibilities to
youth as seriously as they take their
| coaching duties.
| Just now the writer's mind is filled
with sort of composite picture of
| these Western foot ball mentors. and
there is not a single element in this
mental photograph which might stand
as a blot or a moral blur or flaw of
any sort.
| There is Howard Jones at South
ern California, with his Iowa drawl
which even four years at Yale
did not eliminate. "You fellows are
pretty bad, and | don't mind telling
you. ! don't like to see all the work
I'm doing go for nothing. Now, just
| watch me-" etc, etc.
And Glenn Warner, leaning over
the rostrum which he has erected at
| the gridiron side at Stanford, drawling
also in his quiet way: Herb, that play
was No. %, you know. Guess you
weren't where you should have been"
| There is young NiDs Price at
Berkeley, fiery and enthusiastic as
any student, who is beginning to show
that his association with the late
Andy Smith was by no means without
fruit. And Bill Spaulding at Los
Angeles, man with the strength of
an oak and an oaks sturdy dependa-
bility, a man big of heart, big of frame
and big of intellect.
| Ard then John McEwan, who has
just got over being a boy himself and
has settled down to making of himself
one of the biggest foot ball men on
the West Coast. And Enoch Bagshaw
| at shington-rip-tearing war
whooping old "Baggy," honest as the
| day is long and straight as string.
There is Ernie Bearg at Nebraska,
quick, nervous, sensitive, finely grain
ed, a flame of man and a bright, true
flame. Gwinn Henry at Missouri is
another man of the oaken sort and
with all the oaken virtues. Ossie
Solem at Drake is a scion of Norway
who inspires while he instructs. and
the quiet. studious Noel Workman
at Ames is an apostle Of worthwhile
foot ball and worthwhile standards.
Glenn Thistlethwaite at Wisconsin
! will surely succeed at Madison, both