A y y ,y / , k. THLETIC ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOREWORD HE FOLLOWING are extracts from news- papers and letters relative to the Uni- versity of Illinois Coaching Course and some of Illinois Coaches. These are submitted to persons who may be interested in a Course in Athletic Coaching and Physical Education that they may under- stand how others view us. GEORGE HUFF Director, Department of Physical Education University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois Copyright 1022 Clarence L. Welsh THE DAILY BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1919 HE University of Illinois has the distinction of being the first in- stitution to offer a four- year course in athletic coaching lead- ing to a degree, and a large num- ber of Central Illinois boys are considering entering the new school in Sep- tember. The school opens Sept. 22 . Most coaches, thus far, have been educated to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers, for in- stance. Coaching as a life work was often a stop-gap or an afterthought. Beyond their own experience in athletics they have been self-taught as coaches. But the day of the self-made coach, it is predicted, is passing. Few colleges or high schools are willing to allow their teams to be practice material for would-be coaches, who plan to pick up their training as they go along. Besides, it takes too long. The demand for trained coaches is immediate and pressing for the war has given a tremendous stimulus to athletics and physi- cal education. What will the prospective coach study? Baseball, football, basketball, track, and field athletics, swimming, gymnastics, hygiene, training and massage, anthropometry, play- ground management, and the organization of teams. There will be classroom work and training on the field as well. In addition to these technical training courses there will be required courses such as education, psychol- ogy, rhetoric, and public speaking, and the student will have general elective courses from which to choose. So he will have a pretty fair general education on top of his special training. JERSEY JOURNAL JERSEY CITY, N. J. Education Garries the Ball HE WEST is nothing if not ag- gressive and revolutionary. The descendants of the pioneers who pushed into the prairie country and made it what it is today are still imbued with the pioneering spirit, and this spirit had entered into that most dignified and staid realm, the university, where it plays today a conspicuous role. Y et it is not without a measure of surprise that one reads that the University of Illinois is giving a four- year course in athletic coaching. And yet, why not? The call for men and women who understand the training of the human body, who can coach it so as to bring out its physical perfections, who know human psychology, so that they can build up school spirit and term spirit — that form of idealism that sacrifices personal glory for the ultimate good of an entire team — is far greater than the supply. He who is trained to do these things with expert skill has made a contribution to life. He has helped those younger than him- self to prepare, in a physical and moral sense, for the battle of life. The youth who has had it pounded into him until it becomes a creed, that he must play his games fair, is not apt to soil his hands by later contact with a wider world than that of the college campus. The seeds of idealism live long years. At first, the Illinois coaching school was opened as a summer course. Soon it became apparent that the value of a college education to a coach was of inestimable worth. As in every other walk of life, it is the trained matter below the scalp that counts. Athletics showed JERSEY JOURNAL Continued the same willingness and eagerness to absorb its leaders of higher education that the busi- ness showed. During 1919 athletic coaching was made a four-year course. The result will be more abundantly equipped men hold- ing athletic control. Athletics must neces- sarily benefit because of this contact. George A. Huff, is director of the course in athletic coaching at the Illinois University. Who is Huff? Huff is a college man himself. He began his career at the University of Ill- inois in 1889. He made the football and the baseball teams. Later, he attended Dart- mouth Medical College and played football and baseball there. In 1895 he came to Illi- nois as coach of the football and baseball teams. Jake Stahl, leader of the Boston Americans when they won a World’s Cham- pionship, learned baseball from him. Other players he developed are Carl Lundgren, for eight years with the Cubs; Pitcher Fred Falkenberg, Ray Demmitt, late of the Yan- kees, and Jack Bradley. During the sum- mer months he acted as a big league base- ball scout and he unearthed such stars as Tris Speaker, Ed. Ruelbach, King Cole and Hans Lobert. By all means let us have athletic coaches who are college trained. The more college learning, college tradition, college ideals that filter through the trades and professions, the better. It is inevitable that this class of training must tell, and it is fitting that it should be evident in so wide a range as is covered by the athletic amusements of a great people. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO DIRECTOR HUFF REGARDING THE COACHING SCHOOL Wm. J. Rennie, Waukegan, Illinois. April 27, 1920. 1 WAS my privilege to attend your Summer School Course for Coaches during the summer of 1919. Any success I have had here I attribute to the knowledge of fundamentals which was ob- tained from the courses which I took in your school. “The courses have proven to be of inesti- mable value to me in all phases of my ath- letic work. “Enclosed please find a newspaper account of my football season this year. You will notice that we won 8 out of 9 games. During my past two seasons in basketball we have won 34 and lost 9 games.’ ’ Wiley R. Wright, Duval High School, Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 9, 1921 “I was there part of the summer for the Coaching Course and feel that I owe my success so far to the University. It was through Illinois that this place was opened to me and I have worked mighty hard to turn out a winning team. We have played five games and have won them all. ’ ’ S. A. Tenison, Director of Athletics, State Normal School, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. February 18, 1920. “I think your Summer Course for Coaches ranks on its merits as the best in the country. “While here at the State Normal School, I have had good success in football, track and especially basketball.” EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO DIRECTOR HUFF REGARDING THE COACHING SCHOOL Tom Johnson, Marinette High School, Marinette, Wisconsin, Decem- ber 21, 1921. N REGARD to the Coaching School, the most important things that I gathered were the fundamentals of every game, es- pecially football. I am a firm believer in teaching good funda- mental football before any other thing. I found out to my own satisfaction as a coach that a team well drilled in fundamentals will win out in the long run. Fundamental football is one thing that Zup stressed all during the six weeks’ course. I have heard numerous remarks about the University of Illinois Coaching School, especially the Sum- mer Course. R. N. Fargo, Physical Director, Joliet Twp. High School, Joliet, 111., Dec. 15, 1921. “The Summer Course which I attended at the University has been a lot of help in my work this year. After the year’s experience handling coaching, I feel that another Sum- mer at Illinois would be even more valuable than the last.” Geo. E. Cooper, Director of Athletics, Tempe Normal School of Arizona Tempe, Arizona, June 21, 1920. “Thanks to your pointers furnished me last year (attended 1919 Summer School), I was able to turn out my Second State Champion- ship Baseball Team in the three years that I have been here. We have been credited with one Championship in Basketball.” ILLINI AND HARVARD HOLD HONORS OF STIRRING GRID YEAR ZUPPKE ELEVEN DESERVES TITLE AMONG BIG TEN November Zi, T MOST successful football year since the adoption of the for- ward pass and ten yard line rule thirteen years ago came to a successful close Saturday, when Illinois won the western conference championship by defeatin&Ohio State, 9 to 7, and Harvard triumphed over Yale by a score of 10 to 3. In winning from Ohio State, Illinois deserves all the credit which possibly can be bestowed on the coaches and players. It developed into a team of remarkable strength in less than a month’s time. Although beaten by Wisconsin in the middle of the year, it showed the proper football stuff by going into succeeding battles with renewed fight, which resulted in winning the title. Crippled, But Still in Game. Illinois is one of the gamest elevens which has appeared on a western gridiron in years. Some of the players were hurt in the early part of the year ; yet few of them were laid off long enough to recover entirely. They were sent into games when ’they should have been in the stands. They did not complain or protest. They simply did what they were told, no matter how painful, and this accounts for the chaTnpionship. Like the team of the last two years, Illinois was improving as the season grew oldej, while Ohio did not show a marked advance- ment since its game with Michigan in mid-season. Coach Zuppke’ knew the Buckeye attack and he knew how to stop Harley. That he accomplished his purpose was shown all through the champion- ship battle. It was a great victory for the Orange and Blue eleven, but a bitter disappointment to the Scarlet and Gray. CHICAGO TRIBUNE July 14th 1920 CHAMPION COACH QUITS MICHIGAN FOR ILLINOIS NINE ARL LUNDGREN is coming back to Illinois to coach the Baseball team which he helped to pitch to its first championship just twenty years ago. Since 1914 Lundy has successfully coached the University of Michigan nine and his rela- tions with the Wolverines have been of the pleasantest, but his Alma Mater needed him. George Huff, after twenty-four years of coach- ing in which he has won eleven championships and tied for another, had retired as baseball coach. Lundgren’s name is permanently linked with Illinois’ first successes on the diamond. He was a pitcher on the Illini teams of 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. The teams of 1900 and 1902 were Western Champions, and Lundy’s pitching was a big factor. Leads Illini Thru East In 1902 as captain Lundgren led the famous Illini nine that invaded the east after cleaning up the west, on that jaunt, immortalized by John McCutcheon in a front page cartoon, Illinois conquered Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania, and Yale, losing only to Harvard by a 2 to 1 score. Lundgren pitched all these except the West Point game. At Harvard the critics conceded that he outpitched Walter Clarkson who twirled for the crimson, but a patched up infield, the result of an accident in preliminary practice, cost him the victory. Mr. Lundgren was full back on the Illinois Football team in addition to his Baseball work. As Baseball Coach, he will also teach this subject in the four year Athletic Coaching Course which Director Huff established last year. FIGHTING ILLINI WRECK OHIO’S TITLE HOPES, 7 TO 0 BUCKEYE ROOTERS STUNNED BY TEAM’S DEFEAT. November 20, 1921 Wo ° dn,fl raEKT^IUPPKE’S fighting Illini beat Ohio State! Zuppke’s iighting Illini beat Ohio State! Zuppke’s lighting Illini beat Ohio State! The score was 7 to 0, gathered by a successful forward pass from Peden to Capt. Walquist near the end of the first half. If ever a football team deserved its nick- name stressed and reiterated as a real courage bringer during a disastrous season, it was those young men from Urbana who fully earned their adjective on Ohio field this after- noon, retrieved their fallen prestige and smeared over the muddy gridiron all Buckeye claims to another Big Ten title. Zuppkes Find Themselves. Illinois, which has not previously this sea- son recorded a touchdown against a confer- ence opponent found itself. In the greatest upset of the season, it downed the hitherto supermen of Ohio State who had not been scored against by Michigan, Minnesota, Chi- cago or Purdue. As the game ended just after Walquist had speared on his own 37 yard line one of those long forward passes by which Ohio in previous years has come from behind to tie or win, several hundred joy-mad rooters snake- danced over the slippery gridiron while 20,000 stunned and silent Buckeye homecoming alumni and under-graduates silently wended their way toward the gates. Victory Well Deserved. Was Illinois entitled to its victory? Yes. It earned it, in fact the score might have been 14 to 0. Early in the third quarter little Stemaman received a punt from Workman deep in Illinois territory. He started to run, how he ran! First toward Ohio’s left side and then back across the field. He shifted and twisted with Illinois forming for interference at about Ohio’s 30- yard line Wilson took off Ohio’s final safety man and little Joe sped on for what seemed a touchdown. The officials ruled, however, that Wilson had used his hands in upsetting Cott, and called the ball back, giving it to Illinois on Ohio’s 46 yard line. Nullifying the touchdown the Illini rooters were already cheering. Not an Illinois Substitution. Another thing, no doubt, that contributed to success was the fact that Zuppke’s men went through the game without a single substitu- tion, just as Zuppke told the writer Friday afternoon that he would attempt to do. Time was taken out and once Illinois was penalized for delay, but the regulars stuck to the finish. CHICAGO TRIBUNE Walter Eckersall JUNE 5, 1921 ILLINOIS TAKES RECORD-SMASHING MEET HIGH JUMP AND JAVELIN MARKS FALL; DASH TIED Featured by the smashing of two rec- ords and the tying of another, Coach Harry Gill’s well balanced Illinois team which scor- ed points in fourteen of the sixteen events yesterday won the twenty-first annual track and field games of the western intercolleg- iate conference on Stagg field, Illinois amass- ed a total of 61 points. PROFESSOR CRAGWALL EX-WABASH COLLEGE There is an institution in the middle west that every college in the country feels it an honor to combat. I have never heard a man on any athletic team that ever competed against this Institution say anything but words of highest praise for Illinois. And the reason for this is, that any team representing any branch of athletics, if it goes to Cham- paign, will know that it is going to receive the most courteous treatment. The Univer- sity of Illinois never forgets that the opposing team is the guest in her house and that she is going to treat them with all courtesy. It was a revelation to me the first time I went onto Illinois Field and saw the treatment which was accorded the visiting team by the Illinois supporters. On that occasion Wabash was the visiting team and before any of the Wa- bash men could cheer the Little Giants, Illi- nois was shouting for them. BUffALO EXPRESS SPORTS Illinois , Yale , S yracuse Title Relay Winners WEST SENT THE STARS TO BIG ATHLETIC MEET Illinois’ Race Strong Effort of Great Day Philadelphia, April 30. — Remarkable athletic performances by Western athletes were the outstanding feature of the filial day of the 27th annual relay carnival of the University of Penn- sylvania staged on Franklin Field here this afternoon. Of the more important college championship races Illinois captured the four-mile event, after a steady pace which caused both Cornell and Princeton runners to falter under the strain. The University of Illinois milers were always the leaders in the four-mile college championship race. Before the first mile had been finished, Illinois, Cornell university and Princeton were distancing the field, consisting of Pennsylvania State, Syracuse and Lafayette. At the second mile post Illinois led Princeton by fifteen yards, with Cornell twenty yards back of the Tiger runner. In the third mile Cornell took second place from Princeton and in the final two laps of the race made a game attempt to overhaul Wharton, who was anchor man for the Westerners. The latter had plenty of reserve, however, and won by fifteen yards, with Princeton third, 100 yards back of the Ithacans, and Pennsylvania State well distanced. Syracuse and Lafayette did not finish. BLOOMINGTON BULLETIN Fred. H. Young ORANGE AND BLUE TOSSERS OUTPLAYED VETERAN CHICAGO TEAM LAST NIGHT Frank Winters Hailed as the Miracle Man of Illinois Camp as result of Wonderful Work Accomplished with Mediocre Material — Illinois Played Magnificent Basketball Throughout and Deserved Victory (BY FRED H. YOUNG) RBANA, 111., Jan.19, ’21.— They’re singing the praises of a new mir- acle worker on the Illinois cam- pus today. It’s not“G” Huff B. Zuppke, or Harry Gill. It’s Frank Winters, the little basket- ball coach from Rockford who came to Illinois last fall almost unheralded and developed a five strong enough to lick Chicago, Illinois’ traditional foe, last night in the most spec- tacular contest waged on the old Gym Annex floor since the days of the Woods twins. The value of a clever, brainy basketball coach to a college team was never more clearly demonstrated than last night, for Winter’s proteges, who has been working quietly under cover for over a month, came into their own yesterday, fought their very “heads” off for him, and gave a grand account of themselves at every stage. The game will go down into the record books as a victory for Illinois, but to my mind it was a personal triumph for Frank Winters, one of the finest characters in all of Western ath- letics. IOWA STATE STUDENT “U. of Iowa Daily” NOVEMBER, 1921 HE following article has been requested by several business men and others, to be put in the Student with a few appro- priate remarks. True school spirit, of the kind to be desired in every school, was recently ex- emplified by President David Kinley of the University of Illinois in a note of appreciation to the Illinois football squad, a team which won but a single conference game. It reads: “Some people think that football is not quite within the scope of the thought of the president of the university,” Dr. Kinley wrote the gridiron men. “However, I do not think so. I am interested in all things that the students and faculty are interested in, al- though I cannot find time or strength to express that interest on every occasion. “Of course, things in life are of different de- grees of importance, but all together go to make up life ; so in the university. “Nevertheless, I am sure that most people will agree with me in thinking that the qualities of character which you all have shown this fall in your football contests deserve the highest praise. I am greatly delighted with the result of the season because of the fine spirit you have shown — that spirit of unconquerable determi- nation which led you to do your best under trying circumstances and finally to win a spectacular and brilliant victory in the last contest of the season. The spirit you have shown is the spirit that wins success and serves the world. I congratulate you on pos- sessing it. IOWA STATE STUDENT Continued “I take the opportunity to extend my con- gratulations to Capt. Walquist by closing his fine football career so brilliantly.” This note represents, not only the spirit of the president, but of the entire student body and the alumni. The spirit pictured there is one which sent the Fighting Illini, tail-enders of the conference, into the Buckeye camp to return winner over supposedly the best team in the Big Ten. The Illinois rooter, who sat alone among a thron & of Iowa fans, and rose to sing a solo when the band played his Alma Mater, is an example of the same spirit. The slump of spirit from which Iowa State emerged during the past gridiron season is to be commended, but is it not plain that we do not come within several paces of the mark set by Illinois? The Illini have demonstrated that it is not the shouting crowd which really supports the team, it is the crowd which fights for the team as fiercely out of the grandstand as it does within. To stick to the team, win or lose, is to support the school ; to shout when the team wins and curse when it loses is to help the school along to ill repute.