Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-23 | Page 27 | Penn Man Canned as Sport Coach

PEH1CMED' AS SPORT COACH Folwell Was Too Friendly With Sport Writers, It Is Alleged Football coaches in the east who are desirous of holding their places, might ,take a fow valuable pointers from the announcement coming from the University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania that Coach Bob, Folwell was turned off by the Qua-Iker Qua-Iker officials because he was too friendly friend-ly with tho sport scribes. An unofficial announcement Just made by Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania graduates high up in athletic affairs, af-fairs, says Folwell paid entirely too much attention to tho sporting editors and thus incurred the enmity of those who are forever against parading college col-lege athletics in the public prints. To fall back on the exact language of the statement: "Folwell always had time to confer with newspaper writers,-but writers,-but never a minute to spare when writers writ-ers representing college publications appeared for an Interview." Folwell does not deny the charge. .The report that Folwell's liking for newspaper men brought about his downfall at Penn did not surpriso eastern east-ern football writers. Sevoral times the former Penn coach raved and ranted when writers on college publications upset his plans by printing unauthorized unauthor-ized Interviews, and just as many times, the college publications were forced to get their football news from Philadelphia dallies, so that there was friction between these factions almost from tho first month Folwell was on tho Job. The announcement coming at this time can be accepted as full explanation explana-tion of the attitude of some of Penn's publicatinns toward Folwell when the latter was on the grill with his position posi-tion at stake. It is a fact that not only the university publications, but somo of tho departmental Journals as well took occasion to toss a little mud at the coach, and following thoir activity I Folwell was dismissed in favor of John Heisman. Cornell. Yale, Dartmouth and other college publications have mentioned tho Folwell Incident as a warning to other coaches who might be included to favor the public prints, but not one e i,n..n nn.tj lyze the benefits received by tho colleges col-leges from the widespread use of col-legs col-legs news by the public press. Folwell's Fol-well's remark last fall that no college could prosper without assistance from the press, now takes on an entirely I now significance.