Show Gil DOBIE HAS HAS' GREAT REG RECORD R RON ON Noted Coach Loses But Three e Games in Eighteen Years I NEW YORK TOnIc Nov lov 27 7 By Dy A. A P P. PA P.-A A A unique football coach with a remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able r cord is Gilmour Doble Dobie nov jiow serving his seventeenth year as a builder build build- er of successful to football teams the last four of which he h has s lifted Cornell to the pinnacle of gridiron glory In the sixteen years prior to 1923 Doble coached elevens won von one eighty-one victories scored three ties and were defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de but three times rolling roiling up a grand total of 2931 points as against the tile for tor their opponents And as this season has witnessed other Doble victories and the scoring of or more than titan points by his Cornell eleven his list of ot triumphs now Is close to ninety and the total points scored by his hi team is I well Veil over the marAs martAs mart mar As Gloomy Gil GU he i Is known and referred to by Eastern football writers and that sobriquet Is made the tile subject of a sketch ketch appearing In a recent issue of the Cornell Alumni News The TIle article takes Issue with stories which have depicted Doble as a morose and somewhat profane Individual It states that while he can CUS cuss on occasions oc oc- oc- oc and does he cusses out the tile play anu not the players placers It adds his players player have unbounded confidence In Jn him and that the Ilse faculty agree he Isan Isan is isan an Inspirational leader Doble began hl his coaching career in 1905 at Minneapolis High lUgh school The he became coach of f North next year Dakota Agricultural C 1 t Or college II and n InN In 1908 1808 n he be signed as all head coach at the University pity sity of ot Washington serving In that ca capacity capacity ca- ca I ca-I to 1916 1016 In 1917 he became I coach at Annapolis and remained at the tho I naval academy until 1920 when he was wan signed by Cornell In that period I Georgetown which defeated his 1919 Navy team 6 II to 0 Dartmouth which defeated his hili 1920 Cornell Gornel team 14 to 3 S. and Pennsylvania which defeated that same team 28 to 0 O. have havo been the only Institutions to boast bout a victory over Gloomy Gil The secret of ot the success of the Doble system of football play has been described de described de- de scribed as follows Dobles Dobies coaching method or rather I the st le of play that he be develops has ham the peculiar quality of ot absolute precision pre pro I cislon that goes with definite cadence not unlike that of H fL crack crl drill squad going through the m anual nual of arms The marvelous thing about it Is that It goes oes ahead unerringly In the tho midst of the confusion of charging lines and strenuous physical combat On a given play ea each m of the I team has definite duties to perform In Ina Ina a s. perfect routine fend nd he takes his three step In one direction and two in another another another an an- other as all Infallibly and accurately as M if there were ere no one else on the field |