Show a Driving Want Winning Character Open Season on Coaches I 6 FRANK K BAKER BAI Looking over the great number of football coaching casualties this Winter one gets th the idea th that t the schools want their character character build Ine Ing coaches conches to construct a bit more of winning winning- character than losing First to come como to mind when think Ing of the toll of the 1933 sc season on had on co coaches Is of or course Hunk Anderson whose Notre Darners Damers lost five games and defeated only three thre opponents But Anderson Is merely the most moss conspicuous of many who resigned after disastrous seasons Consequently the conclusion must be that colleges do not want losing characters In football suits around the premises Reggie Roots Root's Yaks not only lost ost most of their games gaines but bu enjoyed themselves while doing it Th The captains captain's speech that football is Just jut good clean fun anyway made mado old Yale men grind their their teeth Now Boot Is out of at a Job Yale tried t to get Kipke who takes his football seriously and failed Ducky Pond got tho the 8 assignment and the impression sion ion floating around the country is Js that gridiron practice will be something something something some some- thing besides a hearty laugh at Yale next falL CaIL But Just lust when we reach the conclusion that a a. winning team Is b the best coaching Insurance up bobs the much heckled Sam Wills Wills- man inan ni at Ohio State with a a. resignation team lost only to Michigan l last fall fAU either tying or I I winning all the other games fames on the schedule That's winning character char char- acter I would say saT but alumni factions couldn't take the loss to the Wolverines so Sam has resigned Sam Goes Out at End of Victorious Year Other Oilier Coaches Stay Its It's a strange world On one side theres there's quitting under pressure after altera a successful year car On the other hand theres there's Gloomy Gil GU Dobie Doble whose Cornell team took a terrific 33 33 0 shellacking last fall fallat fallat at the same Michigan hands Nobody is particularly eager to get scalp on account count of that or o other ber defeats W. W T T. T Van de tie Graff stays stairs on at Colorado college without without without with with- out much fuss to have him deposed yet his Tigers were a toothless lot last fall The great Earl Dutch Clark heralded her her- aided 12 months ago as the nations nation's greatest football player returned from pro gridirons and failed to make a roaring success at Colorado Mines Folks are not particularly alarmed Dutch is still a great fellow so far as most COlorado Colorado Colo Cob rado folks are concerned Theres There's Bob the little uttIe Dutchman at Illinois has gained nearly as much publicity in recent years from his painting hobby as he has from his football coaching His team lost loot a close game to Michigan last fall but hell he'll probably draw his pay from the hunt DUn again in Ii spite of at that Coach Conch Must lust Make lake Self Popular if He Is to Hold Post All of which leads around to the fact that you cant can't get away from the personal equation so far as coaches are arc concerned Winnings of course are arc important but they're not all Unless a acoach acoach coach Is popular he leads lead a a. miserable existence win lose or draw Sometimes the likes and aud dislikes are trivial affairs An alumnus can fl take a a. dislike to the way the co coach ch wears his tie Another figures i Emith o ought to be at end instead of k Irate Fan who bet Z M d f- f f J 5 on the other team thinks Coach was lucky to win that game that he deserves erves no credit for the victory and what happens Andy doesn doesn't coach here anymore 1 l' l Midshipmen 1 haven't been abe to boast about avys football glories last falL CalL Even Een a triumph over the hapless Fighting Irish of Notre Dame failed to brighten a drab season Authorities felt it best to change chang co coaches ches Rip Miller liller has bas relinquished relinquished re re- the throne as head coach but he hasn't stepped out of the picture altogether Tommy Hamilton on one of Rips Rip's former fonner pupils steps in inas as the head boss but the he Nav Navy respects Rips Rip's ability to instruct instruct in in- stroet the linemen lInemen and and what's hats more it likes him so 50 Rip Is retained as ES line lino coach The personal equation If U Rip wasn't respected hed he'd be hunting a a new job elsewhere As It Is hes he's still on the payroll Jackson Cannells Cannell's Dartmouth squad started beautifully by trouncing Vermont Bates and Penn and tying Harvard But then came tho defeats deluge defeats at the hands of Yale Princeton Cornell and Chicago So Bo the new coach at Dartmouth Is Red Blaik enticed from Army Anny Chuch Collins Collins' North Carolinians beat Davidson Wake Forest North Carolina State and Vanderbilt but lost to Georgia Tech and Duke Not enough balance of character there so Chuck moved out North Carolina s under Clipper Smith fared even worse so the Clipper was clipped cUpped and Hunk Anderson moved In and started forgetting forgetting for for- getting about the disappointments at Notre Noire Dame Character builders yes but these coaches mus must muse have a knack of pleasing a thousand different personalities at the same time tune If they are to hold their jobs |