Show WARTIME IA SPORTS I I By Sot Sol Metzger L J If HILB it j if to tot is comIS com com- that Yale t note nole w TT IS' IS ck b. to tho ho sport world it is Metzger SQl Sol 1918 by bt disconcerting concertIng to notice oC this fact I i In the is going holn to eliminate Yale I l coach among the pro 1 Presumably if lC Pro- Pro i I t other lh I thi things Corwins Corwin's words arc are a fact tact feOr havo no not I in to the future Ill ra Yale e liko ilko Jo Johnny may Mack men for tor t teed eed This being so so we Joncs 4 and Tad when ard to the day to took 1 can Yale's recent Cupid Black and T I great runner football leader Jut JaEt great t asking for leave from the ill be the to talk and navy I corps Wc 1 rith Jtb Professor proCessor Corwin Tale Yale has been attempting some someI I I wrt JOrt of ot athletic reform during the Haven but butI I In fn sport SPOt at New will not meet I I U a result suit proposed to tia Ith much approval al The game I at L New Haven was fiS to do someI some some- I thins thing big Ig In fn athletic reforms so I IC professional coach is to go 11 fate has done that Job f far r bet- bet was to be expected What Vhal 4 Tale Tal has been figuring on doUl doniK donig li t tJ Intercollegiate sports is much i matter iatter of guess A What hat at she Isto is g to do is a matter of or public ord if it the tho statement recently en out b by Professor Corwin of or the tho faculty athletic lard kird is correct But why such I lep I YALE WANTS WANTS- RE REFORM FORM T- T True Tree Yale is after financial reform re- re form in i intercollegiate athletics must evidently e I c so and to gain galD this end the pro pro- coach is to be discarded JEt Jast wh why hy Yale should be seek seek- hg economies is beyond the Wends of Yale For Tor many years hate has been een paying small col- col j football teams leams as much as J fire fife and six hundred dollars in inte te e way war of guarantees to appear Vh l b the tie bowl before crowds close These other teams have I troubles but Just how I We Te has bas them is difficult to see I Tile Tale should havo have money to burn fa b an n athletic sense Jb Eren Even Yale lale in this period of naI na- na I stress may be wrong In Its jr nt view of ot athletics Up to toI tor I r oe Yale rale practically admits bol bo- bo kj l which wrong which is always a pod way war to start life lite anew Yale admits limits having found that nil cal E sport Orl is not a success But If Yil is to enter the sport f orld as she intends to do do isn't j TiIe doing the wron wrong stunt in can cant tig g JohnD Johnny Mack Which is Just Jt t l would ouid happen if the new I ene Is 15 to be lived up to Not that professional not be Improved upon not thit th-t they sometimes get too much ney and all that The point is that the thc amateur coach iby one who works for fOI the love loye id of eI the Ue game ame may not prove a soto so- so to the problem of or j intercollegiate athletics tills this new and presumably tto lan basis which we are arc con- con llly re reading ding about but which bl as not y yet t been defined The other day I met Dr J. J Dunan Dunean Dun- Dun an iD a Princeton professor bo I U Is the Tigers Tiger's successful row row- and an amateur at that yD tD te has turned out crews fat Princeton t in recent years rears which lere ere faster faHer than those than those of oC Cornell l Yale Columbia and ami Penn In fn actual competition Dr is s a whirlwind at this coaching ching Job and evidently has ht a lot about it At any we tile he began talking on the subr sub- sub r t first thing He had been I an article In this column oJ college coaches QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY IThe w The whole thing in this cole college col- col lege e coaching business is a ques- ques EgL ot of responsibility said Dr SKI It t makes males no difference t hether the coach Is amateur or eIther Cither can do an al amoUnt of harm or a corr cor- cor r Qing amount of good all de- de upon whom wheat le to I he ho is the coach Is tible te to the Ia faculty his troubles If regard to tc It being lill tin ia are arc necessary to tolo I If If be e i IS well wiped out th responsible to lo the thc lobby i COlleges COllege's and followers of ot the athletic Pres prestige ge Id I'd t s e a a. the Job than professional coach adi on onu The a good man many rich Te the tho amateur coach won wont won't t l t coach ita u its it's ala all al- al entirely a a matter of wh whom n is s rc responsible r to an and f In he a if if that football renor a iv n ur of coach wan ih ai at Princeton wo we o ha land t the best besl materIal in Rut But the tho and r ate ath I blem blell would not necessarily bo be solved with any and all kinds of coaches direct directly responsible to the faculty for their work for the simple sim aim plo reason that it has been my ray experience that a good bood many mem meni hers bers of the thc faculty have haye red blood in their veins they like a ripping good game and they like to lo J iu vin Some Somo will work vork with the alumnus in winning too Indeed the further further further fur fur- ther one studios this problem the tho earlier one comes to the conclusion conclusion sion ston our intercollegiate athletics athletics ath ath- while not nol always ideal are aro about the most representative kind of oC athletic American colleges colleges colleges col col- leges can produce for the reason that they appeal to nearly every every- bod body Yale Yalo is going to havo have a big job changing Intercollegiate sport however good the intentions of its faculty athletic board One c can cannot can can- n- n not even think that Yale Is after rich amateur coaches such as Dr spoke of men who would I get Jet tho the best material in the land but it wont won't hurt to call the at attention attention at- at of Yale's faculty athletic board to this view of the matter matter mat mat- ter given by an amateur coach some time before Yale announced it was out to can the poor pro Out Vest West they handle intercollegiate intercollegiate intercol intercol- sport with some bustle and they sure do 10 get results I think it was in the late SOs that Camp began selecting American all football football foot toot ball teams none of which have ha ever eyer been tested About fifteen rear years later laler tho the West Vest got into the game of all Western all teams and non of or them have ever been test test- ed But this past fall a real all all- m mythical football team was as assembled as- as coached a few days das and sent against the Camp Dodge eleven at Des Moines loa lof winning winning winning win win- ning tho the most remarkable gridIron gridIron gridiron grid grid- iron contest over played I l quote from the words of a sporting e etoi eu- eu tor toi who was there by b a 7 0 score WITH A BUSTLE This game was played December December Decem Decent ber S 8 between the Camp DOdger Dodge r eleven composed of former college college college col col- lege stars and the State all-State eleen eleven elev elev- en of Iowa chosen by the three sporting editors of oC Des Moines The all star all star team was gathered together r three da days s 's before the game b by Coach Mayser larser of Iowa State Coach Howard Jones of oC the University Uni of Iowa and J. J M 1 Sanderson of Morningside college college col col- lege and drilled for three days dars three times a day in signals The game was played 1 under the most roost trying conditions ever experienced in football the temperature temperature tem tern being zero the tile wind high and a recent snowfall having ing added to tim the tho general mis ery About fans were present pres pros ent so the patriotic fund for which it was played never foyer materialized ma ma- The cantonment eleven elev eley- en was badly crippled for the encounter as several of oC its regulars regulars regulars reg reg- ulars were stormbound and did not arrive arrhe at the field until the Ule I game same was nearly over oyer But so 50 wrote a member of oC the present everybody present present present pres pres- I ent appeared to have a good time I especially the players wilo who came came very yer- late as It was proven pro that it is possible to convert a mythIcal mythical mythical myth myth- I. I ical team into a reality and also i that football can be played Inzero in inzero inzero I zero weather |