Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-17
New D. {. High School,
Coaches Come With
Excellent Reps
Rees Product of Crock
PhysicoI Ed. School;
UsiIoner q Winner

sherman HeeS, Jr., OF brooklyn.
N. ", and Hiram Dutch Usilaner
of Kane, Pa, have been added to
the coaching and physical education
staff of the local high schools and
will take posts at Coolidge and Tech,
respectively, when the schools open
next month. Rees will have q new
job created with the addition of
Coolidge as the eighth Washington
high school, while Usilaner fills the
vacancy left when Bruce Kessler,
former basket ball coach at Tech,
was transferred to Woodrow Wilson
as business law instructor.
What sports these men will coach
has not been decided and will not
be known until after conferences
with principals of the schools in
volved. Rees is former collegiate
basket ball star, and Usilaner was a
well-known college and professional
football player and later success
full high school coach.
For the first year Coolidge likely
will have no teams competing in
inter-high sports and Rees will de-
vote the greater part of his time to
establishing broad intra- mural
program there. USilaner probably
will spend a year at Tech getting
acclimated to local conditions before
taking a coaching assignment.
Rated Highest in Exams.
paes ,nd JUs;Iopar raceived their
appointments after finishing high
est in recent examinations for
high school physical education in
structors. Another out-of-towner,
Theseus Copeland of Tottenville,
N. Y. finished third, and will be
offered the next vacancy. ROLAND
Lund, Anacostia Junior High in
structor and coach of the Anacostia
High football team, was fourth,
while John Jankowski, former Cath
Ollie University footballer and now
director of the Central Boys Club,
was fifth.
Rees is q years old and is grad
nate of the Springfield Mass Y. M.
c. A. College, noted physical edu-
cation school. He was classmate
there of Charles G. Roberts, now
physical education instructor at
Eliot Junior High School. At
Springfield Rees was star center
on the basket ball team for three
years and also was on the lacrosse
and soccer teams. He graduated
in 1886 and received his masters
degree at Columbia in New York
in 1888
He coached year at Franklin
High, Reistertown. Nd and at the
Sparrows Point Md High, just
outside of Baltimore. and last year
he was at the Ethical Culture
School, New York City. private
school on the public high level. He
coached track. basket ball and
soccer He also is something of a
swimmer and this summer has been
waterfront director at a Maine
resort. He is unmarried
Usilaner was graduated at Ohio
University with bachelor Of
science degree in 1881 and received
his masters degree at Columbia
two years later He played three
years of varsity football at Ohio
u. as a guard. The Bobcats were
undefeated in his last two years
there. After graduation he played
two years of professional football
at Paterson, ~ j.
His 1879 Team Was Tons.
He became assistant coach at
Kane in 1894 and has been head
coach since 1886 His 1888 team
was one of the best in the schools
history, winning the Allegheny
Mountain Conference championship
and being considered to represent
the North in the annual North
South scholastic football game at
Fla, on Christmas Day.
Usilaner developed several stars,
Bill Hillman. who was
secuted by several colleges last sea-
son. Hillman completes his high
school career this season with a
team that was expected to top even
the 1898 eleven until news came of
the coachs resignation to take the
position here.
In addition to football, Usilaner
directed a model intra mural pro-
gram at Kane High in which prac-
tically all the male students par