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Show COACHING SYSTEM COLLEGE GOSSIP (By Montv ) New York Dec 21 Thc problem of coaching bj stems at thw big eastern colleges is providing a lot of Interesting Inter-esting gossip at present This applies most forcibly lo football, but not to football alone Other sports, rowing in particular, offer possibilities of change, both In method and personnel, person-nel, in their directing staffs ilnnard is ono Institution that seems scheduled to stand pat If there is an new face to be seen at the head of an Crimson coachiug corps within the next many moons, or If It Is on tho slate for a shift In ways and means to eventuate, no hint of such has issued out of Cambrldgetown as vol Dvery indication marks out tho way of Har-vard Har-vard teams of the near future as worthy wor-thy successors lo those that now wear kingly crowns This, as In almost all instances of the past that could bo cited, Is duo moro to capable mentors over tho successful teams than to any other one thing Harvard's three olgBost recent successes suc-cesses arc found in roothall. rowing nnd cross country running. The vet- ' "y.l .ir TMi rTTTTtT-ini ,mtt - t urn n ivm-rrmmm w i ,i eran Jim Wray coached enough oars manship into the last varsitv eight to give Yalo the worst beating In manv ears Percj Haughton only a rew ; weeks ago reached the zenith of hib football career, and It looks as though buid zenith will endure lor some time Alfred Schrubb's achievements thus far with the hill and dale plodders do not fall Bhort of the remarkable Be tween Schrubb and Poach Donuvan, coach of tho crack team, Han awl should proe a sensation in the Intercollegiate Inter-collegiate meets next spring Harvard should worrv' In direct antithesis to the good for-tuno for-tuno of Harvard In having such capable capa-ble men anj sj stems is the sad lot of Yalo and Pennsylvania, both sorely tried in football and rowing 13111s Ward at last has been beaten bv tho alumni of Penn In their fight to have him ousted as coach of the Penn navv It Is likelj that an Australian professional profes-sional will buccecd him in tho same sport Yale, just attei getting rid of lohn Kcnnodv, and with Jim Rodgers just beginning to get results in the winter practice nfter a previous un successful season, has to offci the knowledge that the latter lias decided to retire aftci next Tune' Han aid race because of the dissensions that sprang up from lime to time last vear The deposing of Andv Smith puts the head football coach Job at Penn In thc guessing class After George Brooke's refusal to lcavo Swarthmore for tbe Quakcrlown position thcro are practical)! no capable men who are available The loss of Mike Mur ph in track also will be felt although Nat Cartmell should do vsell At last It appears as If Yale will break awav from the football coaching svstem followed so long, of having the outgoing captain act as head coach In his first graduate jear Arthur Howe's dismal failure this vear was probablv tho final blow that killed the svbtem and the word goes around that there is a chanco of Captain elect Ketcham mal ing Jesse Spalding the 1913 head coach The chief talo in circulation mentions the famous old end, Frank Illnkoy, as in Hue for re-coivc re-coivc nn oner of a five year contract to lead tho coaching staff One college Irom which nothing has been heard on the coaching proposition proposi-tion is Princeton Do the Tigers Intend In-tend lo continue under present regimes7 re-gimes7 Silence seems to bay so |