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Woodrow Wilson Coached Football 25 Years Ago At Davidson Played Both Football and Baseball but When Forced Give Up Aetive Participation Studied Game and Devised Winning Plays for His Team H> I.AWRE.NCK PERKY CovyritM. IW4. toy T*? Advane* New York, Feb. 7. ? In all that is being written concerning Woodrow Wilson, the writer has seen no reference to the fact <hat he was closely associated with football as a coach some 25 years ago. In the short time he was ati Davidson College he played j both baseball and football,] football then being the old' association game. Matriculating in 1875 in the clans of '79 at Princeton he found that ; t football was ruled by a council! composed of representatives of; the three upper classes. Prevented1 by the Illness that had caused him! to leave _ Davidson from playing; football at Princeton, his interest' was none the less keen and his | knowledge of the technique of piay' and his fertile ideas for improving the game soon won for him a place J upon the football council, of which: he became secretary. He is credited with the playing cri a constructive part in eliminating, the old association game in favor j of Rugby and in 1877 and 1878 1 Wilson and his colleagues at Prln-, ceton first played seven men on the rush line, an arrangement that has obtained ever since. Old Prince ton footballers say that Wilson was a dally visitor to the field and i the most active of all his associates' in coaching. The professional coach wt-s not to appear for some fifteen years. In 1889 while he was professor of history at Wesleyan, Wilson wps associated with F. D. Beattys and S. V. Cof ftn ? in developing a~ me morable eleven at Mlddleton. It was Wilson who devised for the Red and Black a series of "rota tion plays" as he called them, in which various sequences of plays followed one another without sig nal. Meeting on Thanksgiving Day morning in 1809 % Wesleyan performed the signal feat <rf de- ' feat lug the University of Pennsyl vania team and then prepared for, Yale. "Now fellows," cried a coach as , the team took the field to meet the' Blue, "let every man play hard to! hold down the score." "No! No!" shouted Wilson, con-: fronting the players with upraised hafid. "Let every man play hard to 'win." Then he launched Into one of those fiery before-tbe-game . orations that later came so widely into vogue. Wesleyan did nrrt ' beat the great Yale eleven, but! played c/ne of the best gnilV0* Wesleyan ever played agaiust the Elis. - In the fall of 1890 Wilson ro-! turned to Princeton, his alma mater, as Incumbent In the.cjiair of politics and Jurisprudence. And every day while the Tlg?>r team of that year was prepsuMng Tor Its' grt'at game against Yale, Wilson, Poe, Alox Moffatt. Duncan Edwards and Tracy Harris worked upon aj new scheme of boxing the tackle \ and of breaking interferences. Wilson Is described as fol lowing the team with a cane under his arm. an English fashion ^afferTMl by ToWfhair officials and! coaches, turned trousers, a loose j . fitting pleated jacket and and rod] water proof shoes so popular In thcue days and a collegian's cap. At the close of that 1890 soa Hon he was made chairman of the! committee on outdoor sports which j ho headed until he became president1 of the university. Merely Opened Way For Controversy i II) I.AWIIKNCK I'KltUV Copyright. 1921. by The Advance New York. Feb. 7 ? ? It would' fcOfm that the United Htsiten Lawn Tennis Association In adopting the form of resolution It did relative to player-writers has opened the way ^ to nothing definite ? unless it be controversy, hard feelings and per haps the entrance of lawyers inter ? the sport. For most obviously the U. S. I,. T. A., at it h annual meeting legislated to a degree rather than to a prin ciple. No definite restriction "fifcatast n lOnnh player writing of th" sno't in wiiif-ii he engages for. in : "v li i ?! pivu'fiii U- lw e:i i-nii^'e'l. . Hence the principle has not been availed. "Jt is the player alone who receives "substantial compensation, pecuniary gain or emoluments" who will be barred from writing for the preHs. Evidently the player who writes and receives compensation that is in-substantial, or not 100 substantial, will be let alone. In other words It would seem that every case falling under the general scope of the resolution is to be re garded and handled as an indivi dual case. Does it require an especially keen sighted person to discern trouble lurking ahead in respect to this point? So far as William Tilden, the tennis champion. is concerned, it would nnpear that the resolution !5aves his case open to all sorts of argument. "It is not intended," says the resolution. "To declare a person ineligible who has for year* been engaged in the business of writing articles as his permanent and only business and whose income from such business is not substan tially effected by his playing ten nis.' Tilden probably can show that he has for years been engaged in writing articles as his permanent and only business but he may err may not bo able to show that pres ent income Is not substantially- af fected by the fact that he Is now writing as tennis _champlon. Does he derive more money irom nit articles now that he writes as champion than he received when he used to write as a player of merely sectional reputation? And if so is this due to .improvement in Jour nalistic proficiency or in the value of his articles, per se? Or is it clue to the Increased value of his name as a result of tennis prestige? The' point may prove to be finer and more complex than . it appears on the face. i LET YOUR NEXT SUIT he n "HARRIS" Suit, the rlntltr* of no com plaint. D. Walter Harris The C'ltjr Tailor anil Clothlrr Major League Stages A Boston Tea Party But Indications Are Will Be Pink Tea Party ? Only That and Nothing More i . By JOHN B. FOOTER CoirrnM. W4. fcv Tk? Atfvanc* New York. February 7 ? The first ? major league piok tea that Boston ever had, prepared by President' Johnson (or the American League I i Tuesday, Is in pursuance of the policy of the Junior major to spread | itself here and there in the late1 j winter. The annual schedule meeting was, 'held in Washington in February of1 ; 1922. at Philadelphia in 1923. atj ? Boston in 1924, and it may come to . New York in 1925. although Detroit I or Cleveland would like to see the I folks. In 1922 the Yankees went over to | Washington in full force, with the ? avowed purpose of annexing Eddie Collins. They didn't get him. It , was the same story over ugain when J , they went to Philadelphia in 1923. ' This year, prior to the Boston meeting, the Collins story bobbed up once more; It is not likely that Manager Chance will trade Collins unless he gets a mighty fine de&L And oven If he wanted to, Chance couldn't trade Collins without Comi>key's approval. If the Yankee* want Collins ? and probably they do. as any club would be glad to get a man who can bat .350 ? they will have to give Chicago a second baseman an good and the only individual they have iu this line is Ward, who is not for sale, trade or discussion. All of the league business sche duled to come up at Boston is rati fication of the schedule, which i9 made out in advance, with an under standing that it is non-changable. 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