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Show NEW SYSTEM i ADOPTED FOR j BIG SCHOOLS Professional Coaches Will Take Back Seat If Plan Is Carried Out. BY WALnR CAW Bpecutl Correspondent of tho standard -Fxaminer. (Copyrlgh , lf22. b the Standanl-Exa Standanl-Exa miner ) NEW YORK, April 15. The meeting meet-ing commented upon last week of the, presidentp or Heer. colleges of New England and New York hae resulted in a straight-out-from-the-shoulder resolution reso-lution which run: summarize in details de-tails as follows I "Seasonal coaches are to be re-1 re-1 placed Wy the fall of 1928 with coaches ; who are members of the faculty paid i only by th llcge. They shall bo In j residence throughout the year, having i 'other duties in addition to coaching.: They shall be paid at the same rate' as other faculty members with the same performance of appointment arid BClected in the samn way ua the other, members of the faculty." An executive .cmmlttee whs up-pointed. up-pointed. consisting "f presidents; Meikeljohn of Amherst. Ogllby of Trinltv and Sills of Bowdoln Presl- dent Meiklejohn further states that this is only the first step toward the abolition of coaches -" professional Be isonal, and itinerant. ' COACHES IN STANDS Moreover, he states, they will takej the coach off the bench and side lines, and put him in the grandstand and1 will move along to the disappearance of all . on hey f'reMdfut Shanklln I Of Weslt-Min had a Siege last fall wllhj bis alumni when he put in in Fattver, head of tho phyaical education depart-1 ment, in charge of football, but the president has now won his fight. The! Lgenerel criticism was voiced as to the sums paid for coaches, several Instances In-stances being brought out where a coach was paid more than the professors pro-fessors Altogether the contemplated action is not out o! keeping with the I situation th culminated In disclosures disclos-ures concerning certain Princeton athletes. ' The action of the eleven institutes I will certainly rosult in aometMng. j morally worth while. On the other hand they undoubtedly expect n los ( in athletic prestige. Eventually will coiue the Inevitable reaction nnd then we hall be able to I settlo down to real comparisons. I niit COMPE1 E The smaller colleges cannot coin-! I pctc in the market place for high ( ..: lies :inj if for no other reason than this they must come to the ger.-I ger.-I erul director of faculty coach. As 1 for the larger institutions, unquestionably unques-tionably they will continue with the, ;i'nsonii! specialist. There Is right on both sides. But ! when all ii said, tho fact remains I that thi' tsndfnCy in coaching has ii en too murh toward appin? the in-I in-I dividual initiative of the player. I? every college had a turps of faculty fac-ulty members expert in teaching sports j the problem would ho easily solved. I Dr. Spaeth has done it for Princeton I rowlnc. But without a Spaeth, what I lire he Inevitable results'' W hy. specialists; OS John Hoyle, Jim Rlc-e. Jhn Cordeiry, Joe WTight and Jim Ten Eyck. oo I |