Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — ARMY CADETS NEED TRAINER [ARTICLE]

ARMY CADETS NEED TRAINER

Unique Method Employed to Prove to Skeptical Officer Necessity of Such Functionary. Harry Tuthill, the only professional employed in any branch of athletics at West Point to wear a class ring—the honor was conferred by the graduating class of 1915—has been coma lieutenant in the aviation corps. Tuthlll was forfterly trainer for the Detroit Tigers and in the fall he trained the army football eleven. Later he became the trainer for the University of Michigan eleven. They tell a good story of Tuthlll at West Point. When he arrived there to his first team, an officer who had scouted the necessity of such a functionary was Sufficiently frank to inform Tuthill as to his doubts. “Why,” he said, “these boys are always in training; what do they need of a trainer?” By way of reply Tuthill forthwith sent a group of cadets running around the parade grounds. When they returned he ordered them to whistle. Not a cadet could do so. “There,”’said Tuthill, with a smile, “When men can do that and whistle after it, they won’t need a trainer.”