Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1917 — DR. SHARPE TRAINING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DR. SHARPE TRAINING

Noted Football Coach Is Working to Be Army Officer. As Player, Official and x Coach He Hao Been In Football Limelight for Twenty Years—Without Peer as an Athlete. Dr. **Al” Sharpe, head coach of the Cornell team for the past half dozen years, has answered the call of the (colors and Is working to be an army officer at the students’ camp near Watertown, N. Y. As a player, official and coach, Doctor Sharpe has been In the football limelight for 20 years. In his student days the former Cornell coach had the distinction of winning his varsity letter in more branches of sports than any other man who ever attended Yale university. In baseball, football, crew, track and basketball Doctor Sharpe was without a peer as a collegiate athlete. The wonderful personality that won him thousands of friends, while an athlete, proved an Invaluable asset as a coach. No player was too Insignificant to escape the eyes of Doctor Sharpe while he had charge of the Cornell squad. Men who to some Instructors possessed no real value developed into stars under the coaching of Doctor Sharpe. Because of this fact, hundreds who formerly relegated themselves to the cheering sections would don football togs and each day would see record squads working for the Cornell teams. When he took charge at Cornell the Ithaca college was annually beaten by Pennsylvania on Franklin field. In 1915, after working with the Cornell squad for several seasons, Sharpe saw his work blossom Into championship possibilities, the first that had been developed at Ithaca In years.

Last fall the big Red team did not do so well, although it showed up better than aggregations prior to the Sharpe regime. Sharpe went to Cornell as coach from Hill school of Pottstown, Pa., where he left a splendid record. While at Hill school he was often used as a football official. Of recent years his duties at Cornell have made it impossible for him to handle many games. As a football player in the early nineties Sharpe was famous for his kicking and line-bucking abilities. Although a tall, slender man, he was a remarkably hard line breaker. His kicking was always sensational. In this department of football Sharpe was fully the equal of any man who ever attended the New Haven university.

Dr. Al Sharpe.