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Caption: Booklet - Articles and Letters about UI Coaching (1922 Selections)
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THE DAILY BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1919 Bloomington, III. HE University of Illinois has the distinction of being the first institution to offer a four-year course in athletic coaching leading to a degree, and a large number of Central Illinois boys are considering entering the new school in September. The school opens Sept. 22 Most coaches, thus far, have been educated to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers, for instance. 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 physical education. What will the prospective coach study? Baseball, football, basketball, track, and field athletics, swimming, gymnastics, hygiene, training and massage, anthropometry, playground 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, psychology, 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. •
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