Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-30
VETERAN COACHES
Barring MYSTERIES
Meeting in New York Today
Gives Chance to Learn
Trades Five Points.
BY H. C. BYRD.

n VIEW YORK CITY, December 80.
If the young coaches attend
NJ ing the annual meeting of the
4 American Foot Ball Coaches
Association here today fail to
learn more about the great gridiron
sport. fail to benefit professionally, 1t
will not be the fault of the older
coaches who are directing affairs OF the
association. Virtually every phase OF
gridiron coaching is to be discussed by
at least one coach who not only stands
at the top of his profession but gen.
orally is recognized as an exceptional
specialist in his subject. For instance,
the ability of those in charge Of Notre
Dame teams to keep their men in good
physical condition notwithstanding the
vast amount of travelling they do is one
of the mysteries of foot ball, and Tom
Lieb, one of the Notre Dame coaches,
is to talk on the subject of foot ball
training. To put it little different,
the young coaches are in the position
OF being able to say, Come on, Tom,
tell us how you do it."
Zuppke Discussing Offense.
The discussion about offensive foot
ball is under the direction of Bob
zuppke of Illinois. zuppke himself is
to talk on running plays, and there is
no coach better qualified to speak on
that subject. Zuppke will pick such
men as he pleases to talk on other sub
jectS of offenSe, such as backward pass
plays, forward passing. punting, place
kicking, and quarterback strategy. To
hear Zuppke talk on anything is worth
q trip to New York, and to hear him
talk on foot ball, especially with coaches
of some of his schools opponents pres
ent, is worth trip anywhere. 1t Is not
the fact that Zlppke has the best run
ming backs in the country that makes
his teams great in their running at
tack. but rather TINT zuppke is a mas
ter of that type Of foot ball and he and
his system makes the backs.
Clarence Spears, more Familiarity
known as Doc" Spears. coach at the
University of Minnesota, is to speak on
defensive foot bail He and other out
standing coz cieS he will se!ert arc to
talk specifically on defensive line play.
defensive play of barHS styles of de-
Tense ard defensive strategy.
Session To De Interesting.
Any coach who attends the meetings
Is sure to Sd through some interesting
sessions, e.cn If iIa knows already all
that he hears. And for the young chap
jIE6 beginning a career, either in col
1ege or high school, an opportunity 10
hSten to such DISCUSSIONS as usually are
featured il the meetings, c5ps cially as
they relate to the technical side of the
game, arc ret to he missed.
An intcr~- ,ns report to be made to
the coaches is that OF DR.. NJ. j. Ben
nett, athletic director ct Sewanee, who
was sent to Mexico last year to irtro-
duce focs bail to the University of Mex
leo. He is u tell az about his expert
enCes there and the possibilities for de-
veiopment of the game.
There is no general feeling among
coaches in regard to the Carnegie re-
port. Nearly every one seems to have
a different way of expressing himself
about it, but all unite in being inter-
ested In having uniform playing con-
ditions, and having these conditions as
nearly free from criticism as possible.
Opinions of coaches vary from one who
feels that the whole report was greatly
exaggerated and does not present a
true picture to another who thinks it
was fine thing because it brought
everything out in the open. And, it
might be said, of still another, Zuppke,
in whose opinion the whole thing boiIs
down to where it is question of which
institutions have students on their teams
and which ones have foot ball players"