Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 23 | Football Coaches Will Soon Report

FOOTBALL COACHES 1 WILL SOJ REPORT 1 But Little Glory Attache! to jjji Job of Training Win- ning Team. 1 YALE STARTS MONDAY Houghton of Harvard Will , III Not Call Men Till Sept. 15. Iij; -NEW YORK, Aug. 30. During tho K9j next throe months the football coach 'Mil will rule supremo upon college campus Sii'J and gridiron. To the candidates i'or llj pluces on the eleven his word will be i M law, and to the non-playing students MW he will be the ouo person in whose mw hands rests tho future of tho univcr- Bffli The position of football coach is not - flu? one in which all is acclaim and glory. ogre The task of developing a winning team a 8! calls for serious and nard work, even S under the most favorable conditions. mWi Even with an abundance of satisfactory jfljJjr matorial the judgmont and thought that Mm' must be given to the selection of just i JLj the right combination is but a small . jfm portion of tho work. Tho firBt and sec- ' If ond teaniB must be carefully drilled and lfl TCI trained and in the end, if defeat comes Rjfc in tho final and big game of the sea- aj fflj son, tho coach reaps all the blame. If BuT the reverso is tmo his share of the giorv is small and fleeting. KS without the football coach, however, WW football would fall far short of the J m scientific game that it is today. . Ev- I erj' college and university haa either Ijlnn an alumni coaching system or an alum- Umm nus of some other institution teaching ; &fij tho voung mon how to tackle, dodge, ' Mw fall on the ball, and the numberless.- Hun other individual and combination se- m1 crets that go to complete the gridiron 118; education of the playor. Of the sev- $: eral hundred colleges in variouB parts mW of the United States loss than lo per a! ft cent try to play football with the ooach n S- left out. Even the leading high schools . m W nnd preparatory academics have their " jg aj." paid coaches. n All tho football mentors will havo JW P their charges at work in the next two M or three weeka and tho land will resound Jnj j with tho thud of boot against ball and I body against turf. Yale has planned j;f an early start, and Captain 3etcham wkjr will take a squad of players to Sias- m W conset, Mass., on Monday for prelimi- M'V nary nractice beforo the New Haven Bjj university formally opens its doors for mWi another scholastic year. IBS Coach Houghton of Harvard is more M'W deliberate as befits a champion, and Bift he will not gather his chargo3 about m 'M him at Cambridge until September 15. In iff Captain Storer, however, saw to it that t Jwljift every promising' player took at least ' fllf m ono football nway with him at the be- mm ginning of the summer vacation, and tin iH the men doubtless were instrooted" to SH r report in condition if tbey hopd to I'J make tho eleven of 1913. Jisj r Cornell will start its second season J: September 16 under the coaching of ifii Dr. Al Sharpe. Undor the new regime at Ithaca, Cornell can bo counted upon- (Elk as a factor in eastern football this sea- H j son. Princeton, too, plans for an early .8 :K start, while the advent of George '8r Brooke at Pennsylvania will certainly : Rf J- liven up tho Quaker campaign. 'ttlr In tho middle west Coach Stagg of Chicago hopes to recapture the Confer-ence Confer-ence championship; Coach Yost of Michigan is looking forward to eastern ISh! triumphs, while Illinois hopes for great fjflfij f invprovoment under its now football iimsl 1 mentor, Bob Zuppke. j i