Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — GRID COACHES HARD TO FIND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GRID COACHES HARD TO FIND

Scarcity of Directors Among Various Colleges on Account of WarGame Won’t Suffer. * American colleges face a scarcity of , coaches to train the gridiron squads next season, according to Gilmore Dobie, coach of the naval academy eleven. “I can see colleges which have lost coaches because of -the draft having

an unusually tough time of it,” he said, “but as a whole football isn’t going to suffer to any great extent.” Every football coach within the draft age has been called to the colors or has enlisted, he explained, and most coaches over the age, limit are under contract.

Gilmore Doble.