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Show MANY SUCCESSFUL COACHES NOT r; REMARKABLE GRIDIRON PLAYERS :-. j i f " Jh " I nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrJ Glen Warner, Famous Football Coach. Football furnishes a number of striking instances of the fact that success suc-cess as a coach may often be won by a man who has never himself beexi a Shining light on the gridiron. The honors hon-ors go to the men with the best knowledge knowl-edge of the fundamentals and who have made the cSisest study of the possibilities of the game. Case of Warner Cited. Glen Warner, the famous coach of the University of Pittsburgh eleven, is an outstanding example of the man who has had great success as a coach without ever having created a sensation sensa-tion as a player. Warner played guard at Cornell, but there is no record of his ever having burned up the gridiron with brilliant performances. However, How-ever, he absorbed the teachings of hia coaches and was able to enlarge on them. With the fundamentals of the old game, thoroughly mastered, as a basis, he was keenly alive to the possibilities pos-sibilities of the new game and made himself one of the foremost football strategists of the era. Robert Zuppke of Illinois was only a substitute' when he was at Wisconsin. But he, like Warner, had a natural aptitude ap-titude for mastering the game's strategy strat-egy and instilling his teachings into others. Fielding H. Yost, who has built so many powerful Michigan elevens, was not considered a great forward in his undergraduate days at West Virginia and Lafayette. Coach Roper of Princeton Prince-ton never crowded any stars out of the limelight in his student days nor was J. W. Heisman, the University of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania tutor, looked upon as a great player when he was playing with the old Penn teams'. Yet both have furnished fur-nished exceptional examples of successful suc-cessful coaching. Numbers of other instances could be cited where players who have not risen above mediocrity as undergraduates have developed many notable elevens as coaches. |