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Show YOST TELLS OF COACHING Defends It in Mall Game, Influence Is Beneficial to Men and Helps Sport, Loyalty, Manhood and Vigor Are Made to Win in Spite of All Obstacles. Fielding IT Yost, Michigan's famous coach, defends football coaches thus In the Illustrated Sporting News. "No man Is more generally misunderstood misunder-stood by many of the critics than the football. coach. I am glad of this opportunity op-portunity to say a few words in defense of him and tho game which he represents repre-sents by explaining his motives, his Incentives In-centives and .the results of his work as I have seen and known them In an ex-perlence ex-perlence of the past ten years, covering nearly every section of the country from the Atlantic to the. Pacific. I shall not attempt to discuss what he must teach of the game itself, nor how to play the individual positions, but rather consider the basic principles upon up-on which the same depends, the class of men he must cbocse. and the qualities quali-ties of character and manhood which these players must develop before they are properly equipped to so play the game that their efforts will be crowned with success. Ideals are seldom fully realized, and In football ns in every-thins every-thins else, mistakes are made. It is my contention, however, that the aim of the football leader la always high, that the good ln the game greatly outweighs the evil, and that the tendency is a ! ways toward improvement and the os- 1 tabllshment of more healthful conditions condi-tions every year. All Coaches Professionals. "First of all my experience has taught me that under modern conditions condi-tions all coaches are professionals at least all but some exceedingly rare exceptions ex-ceptions which merely prove the rule. At the head of the football system of every large university are men who devote de-vote much time and energy In directing the season's campaign. "Whether or not they are graduates of the particular Institution In-stitution which they serve, they recelvo valuable compensation of some sort for tholr efforts. It Is my belief that In the best examples of the two systems there Is but little distinction between the so-called so-called 'graduate coach' and the 'professional 'profes-sional coach.' "The Held with which my most recent c experience has made me most familiar c IS the middle "West a section in which I professional coaching in lis popular slg- i nlilcance Is most highly developed and c most uniformly commended ThJs Is a part of the country whose college life 1 and traditions as well as its college 1 athletics are but little understood In the t East. It is to a great extent lndepend- i ent of the rest of the countrv. Tho i combined enrollment of the six leading universities of this section is considerably consider-ably larger than the enrollment of the six largest Eastern universities. The student bodies are recruited from tho farm, the small town and the great cities from all parts of the country and from every walk of life. The great majority have been accustomed from boyljood to vigorous outdoor sports which develop a strong, hardy manhood. man-hood. "While of comparatively recent Krowth, football has hud a remarkable development there. Practically all of the preparatory schools are represented by teams which have been developed by able coaches. The interest ln tho game Is Intense and widespread, and largo crowds view the contests. As a result of these conditions tho material entering enter-ing the colleges Is of the very beitr "Tho universities, while young In comparison with some of those In the East, are older and more firmly established estab-lished than Is generally understood among football followers along the Atlantic At-lantic seaboard. Michigan, for example, exam-ple, date back to the year 1S37. It has lis trialilons firmly implanted in the hearts of the largest body of living alumni of which any American university univer-sity can boast. "The traditions of these middle "Western "West-ern institutions foster a healthful snlr-It. snlr-It. The strictest conditions are Imposed on tho athletes. No one is allowed to represent his college who does not. come up to the high standard set by ihc faculties fac-ulties in the most rigid requirements in force in any part of the country. Athletics Ath-letics In the universities popularly classed as the 'Big Nine' arc in a most nourishing condition. The athletic authorities au-thorities act more harmoniously than those in the East; they agree upon a uniform set of rules to govern them ln their mutual rehitlons, as well as oa those which govern the athletes desiring desir-ing to represent their college. Nowhere Is it better understood among the football foot-ball men that It !s a requisite of success for fairness .to pervade every contest, Jor the men to give the strictest attention atten-tion to the ofllclals and implicitly obey the playing rules. These conditions have a healthful Influence In-fluence on the coaches as well as on the men. But It Is not environment alono which makes the teachings and lnllu-ences lnllu-ences of the coach beneficial. Almost invariably the present systems at the I leading Western colleges have been developed de-veloped by a man from the East, who at home had the reputation as a leader among the football men of his college. I refer to such men as A. A. Stagg, tho former Yale end and pitcher, now at Chicago university; Dr. IT. L. Williams, the former Yale half-back and hurdler, at the University of Minnesota, Phil King, the Princeton half-back and quarter at Princeton, now at the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin, and "Bum" Booth, the former Princeton center, now at the University of Nebraska. At present many of them rank with fVi rm-nmnui fnntloill men of the entire country. The systems are not translt-ary, translt-ary, but firmly established. The men in control have high ideuls. and In manv Instances are muklng a life work of their profession. They are Invariably college men strongly Imbued with college col-lege spirit ln its best sense. In developing; develop-ing; and fostering an athletic system at the university which they have adopted (and which has adopted them) each season makes more and more a part of that system and of the collego Itself. A few years and the coach acquires for the Institution which his team represents repre-sents a loyalty that the graduate coach himself learns only by continued service ser-vice as a coach for his alma mater. This condition of affairs could not exist ex-ist If the professional coach were anywhere any-where near as dangerous nn individual as some of the critics would have him painted. The severest of the critics, however, agree that the great aim of the coach Is victory. In my opinion, this much desired success comes only when the coaching Is so directed thnt it brings out the very best that there Is ' in manhood, and this Is the objective point of every sucessful coach. To win, the coach needs to develop manhood and character. This is the basic iondat!on upon which his struc ture must rest. Falling ln this, he has a mass upon which It Is hopeless to waste time and effort. The coach must have the confidence and respect of his men. In order to get this he himself must set a worthy example. Then he must understand the same thoroughly ln all of Its varied aspects. Should ho sound a falEe note, he cannot get the harmony which Is essential and without with-out which his candidates can never bo welded Into the machine-like combination combina-tion which stands for efficiency. E6prit Du Corps. Success In football demands that the player have a love for and a loyalty to the collese which he represents. No man can put forth every ounce of power pow-er In every fiber of his being unless he loves the cause for which he strives, and is thoroughly Imbued with the fact that defeat Is n. disgrace when victory can be won b'y fair' means. Tho spirit of fairness and honesty needs to be strongly developed In every player. Success demands that even If it Is the only end sought. It Is the man who Is honest, clear-headed, ready to sacrifice self for his team and college, whose mind is on tcam play and not on breaking the rules, who will always' be found in the right place .at the right time and ready to put forth overy available effort. The coach must pick his men nnd al most Invariably the men who stand his tests are ones who would represent their college with credit in any honorable honora-ble capacity. At the opening of the season sea-son a coach faces an army of candidates candi-dates from every walk of life boys and men with all the peculiarities pf temperament tem-perament and environment which can be imagined ln the average crowd of American college students. He must see th.'lr possibilities, notlco the perceptions, percep-tions, the courage, the spirit of seir-sacrlfice seir-sacrlfice and the nerve of every one of the candidates. The good, industrious student is the man upon whom he has learned to rely with certainty. Loyalty and Manhood Win. My experience has shown me that of two teams equal physically and equally weu trmunded in individual and team play, the men will win who are most thoroughly Imbued with strong, honest manhood, loyalty to their college, honesty hon-esty and fairness, self-sacrifice coupled with self-reliance, and with courage und nerve. It naturally follows that the coach will aim to instill all of these qualities In his men, and men so equipped will win, other conditions being be-ing equal. True It Is that there are examples ex-amples In football in which the ideal Is not realized. But ln such cases I contend con-tend that It Is more often the Individual than the coach who is at fault. Some boys will cheat In their examinations, but we do not credit this to :hc Influence Influ-ence of the Instructor. There are black sheep In many line flocks, but for their wrong-doings their associates are not condemned. The coach hlmsalf is ccr-tahi ccr-tahi to make mistakes, and even when his course is one which could not be criticised, some Individual may go wrong or somo disagreeable Incident develop In football. But for this the sport itself cannot bo justly condemned. I have no sympathy with the man who views everything as a pessImlBt, nor for one who becomes a chronically hostile critic of athletics because by dint of hard effort he can occasionally discover discov-er some bad spots in the sport. Foot ball as I have seen it is doing much for young manhood in America. I believe It will be alive and flourishing when many of Its severest critics are dead and forgotten. The standard of the game Is constantly growing higher, nearly every tendency Is in that direction, direc-tion, and I am sure that no one Is more anxious to aid la such development than the much criticised football coach Let critics lpnd him their best efforts, to that end, and the American college game of football will take care of It-sell'. It-sell'. At Jacksonville Fred, Odwell put- tho ball over the fenco Just above a furniture dealer deal-er a sign which offers $25 ln cash ln lartro i?t,t?.rs V10 ba"e" Performing tho feat. Oddle didn't notice the promise until his attention was called to It, as ho walkad home. Whllo ho was flgurlnjj out what ho would do with tho quarter of a hundred, hun-dred, some oilo Informed him that tho of-for of-for was good only last year. Lawyer ilug-glns ilug-glns has offered to, take tho case up for l.im and see if tho firm cannot bo mado to comprolhlae with an easy chair for tho hotel piazza. Cincinnati Enquirer. The vaudevilles three tfhcot havo dubbod Charles (Kid) McCoy tho "Beau Brummol of Pugilists," Thoro wero ence the "Talleyrand "Tal-leyrand of Trotting Horso Drivers" and tho,"Nap01eon of Billiards." Talleyrand might havo drlvon a trotting horse without with-out sacrifice of dignity and Napoleon might have, and probably did. play billiards, bil-liards, but imagine Beau Brummcl fighting fight-ing Sharkey! i Horsemen returning from California, say ' that when thoroughbreds which ordinarily would bring J2000 were offered for salo after af-ter tho antl-raclng law passed tho House In that State tho animals brought only ?c0, purchasers paying. ""What la the uso of our buying hones l wo can't havo racing." rac-ing." Yet soma persons argue that racing does not really encourago and Improvo the breed of thoroughbred horses. |