Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-01


- taken place outside New York,
the National Collegiate Ath-
ietic Association hopes to increase its
membership and awaken a keener In
terest in its work among southern
schools an opportunity 10 attend at
many of the schools in the South are
not represented, and it is 10 give these
schools an opportunity 10 attend at
less expense and thus become better
acquainted with the work the associa-
ton is doing that New Orleans was
chosen by close vote over 81. Louis
1t was believed that holding OF the
annual meeting in Chicago several
wears ago would help the association
in the Middle West. II did. and II Is
expected that the same good results
Will accrue from the meeting In the
Louisiana city.
For some years efforts nave beeh
made to shift the meetings of the as
ISOLATION to other cities, but without
much success. 1t has been felt ny
other sections of the country that II
the National Collegiate Athletic AS
sociaiion really were national or
ganization then people from other sec
lions should not he compelled 10 make
the trip TO New York every year, Peo.
ME coming from beyond the Missis-
sippi and from the Gulf States have
been under much greater expense
than those from New England.
Heretofore the matter has been left
In the hands Of the executive commit
tee, but this time the vote was taken
on the floor. with the result that the
meeting will not take place in New
York. The gathering OF the Coaches
Association also is scheduled for New
Orleans. and that city probably will
10 ha ery,oa 5nfrix of athletic
directors. faculty men connected with
athletics and coaches that il ever has
known.
Incidentally, it seems that there is
likely TO he some other changes in
policy in the National Collegiate A;h-
letic Association. It is felt in many
quarters that the steam roller methods
of putting things across are. TO say
the least. not educational. and a
strong group in the organization seems
determined that il ought TO end.
General opinion OF all coaches at
the coaches meeting in New York
was that foot hall is better played TO-
day than al any previous time in the
history of the game. One prominent
coach. Bob Zuppke, made the state
ment that most of the alumni who
are trying to tell coaches how to run
teams never even played on a winning
eleven. and that the teams of today,
the teams coached by men they criti-
else. could beat the life out of any
eleven with which the critics ever had
been connected.
One aiumnGs of n big university
who has criticized the coaching of
that school numerically was men,
tipned especially. and il was stated
49, . IS hi . hi s<s
ular man played not only never won
a game. but that the man himself
never got above the mediocre stage
Of performance.
In this connection II Is interesting
20 note the reply that Zuppke made.
10 an inquiry by the president OF the
Alumni Associa ton of Ohio State Uni-
versity as To the eapability of Jack
Wilce, Ohio State coach. when the
latter-was under fire from certain
alumni last Fall. Zuppke wrote in
his reply that Jack Wiice is o bigger
man in the foot ball world than all
the alumni Of Ohio Stale University
combined
Zuppke told an amusing story of a
haifbaEk he had who was not overly
apt but hewed to the line of every
instruction. IL seems that before one
game. Zuppke made his team speech
IN which he said that If the game
were not to be won he did not want
any man 10 come of that field alive
Late in the contest, with the score
Just small margin in favor Of the
other team he sen. in this haafback
as a substitute for a player named,
say Brown. The regular back was
stretched on the ground and the sub,
haIffack went on the Held, put his
Ar down 10 the chest Of the regular
and then rushed back To the gldelines
and sat On the bench. Zuppke. amazed.
walked over and ignpa;leBtIy askei
the sab what Was the matter. The
reply he got was. Il couldn't 80 in,
Brown still breathes."
Bill Roper III Princeton says that
picking a championship foe; bali team
Is a dix IN The dark. He cited az an
tns,8Hr ~ I'm the East last Fail
pTFirs x were ten teams that
f5stss | probably one Was lust
al 3ug as the other And
: whole country 10 CON
~ Roper's opinion that
ti.ei4 many strong eieyens. and
many eisYens OF about the same
caiiber. Roper made another state.
yaent. though, that was interesting.
coming as il did from ar Eastern
eozch, which was 10 the effect that
there probably were more good foot
bali teams in the West than in the
East, though the general standard Of
little different.