The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-The boys
~ tell me there is very good
chance that there will be a drastic
shake up in the personnel OF the
Yale coaching staff before another
season rolls around I am told that
the shake up is likely to affect not
only DR.. Nal Stevens, head coach,
but some Of the better known Yale
assistants, including Benny Fried
man and Adam Walsh.
Friedman has been coaching the pas
sers sbd the quarter backs. Walsh has
been directing the line II was the ef-
iectiveness OF the pass and the stout work
Of the line that figured most vitaily in
Ysles victory over Harvard last week end
the first victory the Blue has scored
over tho Crimson in four wears. If
Stevens is 10 90 and along with him Fried
man and Walsh. It will be strange re-
ward for success.
Reggie Root is being mentioned as the
most likely successor 10 Stevens II one
Is appointed He is an old Yale lines
man who is distinguished among other
things for his football missionary work
IN Mexico. At present he is handling the
second squad at New Haven. Root is
stickler for what the old grads call yale
footbalP-and apparently there is an urge
10 return to that kind OF football al Yale.
The impending coaching changes seem
10 he tied up in some wav with the re-
centlv reorganized athletic administration
which shifted the balance Of power from
he alumni 10 the faculty.. The dope Is
that the inner faculty circle resents the
mixed grin aspect of the present coacn-
ing staff and. what is more important. the
excessive stress which has been placed on
turning out winning team.
ITO the high-minded university
purists, it has been both
shock and a scandal that Yale foot
ball had to go into the professional
field of football for one OF It's
coaches. and the presence Of young
Adam Walsh, late of Notre Dame,
has not been altogether q source OF
Joy.
There are stm some university purists
ubo think thew don't do anything but
NAV football al Notre Dame and mat
inc presence Of Notre Dame coach on
tho SQUAD represents a hidden sinister
threat against LilE 4lAnNANNFAN'A
life.
Friedman would have been more &C
csntable as former professional player
~, currently active one. There Is no
han n, the professionals in the Big Inree.
mean. of course. as coaches. Arro,u
t1orween whose Harvard teams beat Yale
,tr.o fines in a row. used to play pro-
fsssionaI football under the name Of Mui-
phv in Chicago. -, ,o-
FRIEDMAN hadn't intended to play pro
rosstona1 footbau this wear and wouon
have nlsved IL those Yale men who nao
,orsusded him TO ioin the coaching stan
had been able to help him along IN the
brokerage business.
As get the story Friedman renounced
s1o ooo contract with the New York
Giants TO accent meager nav check at
vale and the difference was to nave
been made IN by influential old grads IN
the street A very interesting arrange
,nent and no doubt it would have worked
out with mutual satisfaction If 1t hadn't
been for the panic.
CECOND-STEING coaches do not
- make very much money. Al
the same time they've got to eat
So when the promised brokerage
business failed to materialize (snn-
plv because there was no business
10 materialize) Friedman reJolned
the professionals.
And now YOU have the unique spectacle
nj a professional footballer sitting on the
sacred bench Of the t yale yaaI nyYbn So Ter
rihle or socially debasing about sQcn a
situation II is lust one of those tnl.gS
that aren't being done IN the Gear olo
Big Three. ...u5 eh.t,e
rg ne moves esq in the Yale captains will
rank above the coaches IN auJhoIiiCHit GO
Theoretically they hold iSem such Just senT Thsf
Meet tbis would have on the game and
he teams is open to dc deo Asw Haven YOU
,,esr that Able Booth exercised this Iaol1
Gonal authority when he started aga ,,dSS
n Johns and Harvard. 1 don't know now
true this is but it is fact that Boom up
10 then had not been IN the hao4I u
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