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Caption: Booklet - Articles and Letters about UI Coaching (1922 Selections)
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JERSEY JOURNAL JERSEY CITY, N. J. Education Carries the Ball HE WEST is nothing if not aggressive and revolutionary. The descendants of the pioneers who pushed into the prairie country and made it what it is today are still imbued with the pioneering spirit, and this spirit had entered into that most dignified and staid realm, the university, where it plays today a conspicuous role. Yet it is not without a measure of surprise that one reads that the University of Illinois is giving a four-year course in athletic coaching. And yet, why not? The call for men and women who understand the training of the human body, who can coach it so as to bring out its physical perfections, who know human psychology, so that they can build up school spirit and term spirit—that form of idealism that sacrifices personal glory for the ultimate good of an entire team—is far greater than the supply. He who is trained to do these things with expert skill has made a contribution to life. He has helped those younger than himself to prepare, in a physical and moral sense, for the battle of life. The youth who has had it pounded into him until it becomes a creed, that he must play his games fair, is not apt to soil his hands by later contact with a wider world than that of the college campus. The seeds of idealism live long years. At first, the Illinois coaching school was opened as a summer course. Soon it became apparent that the value of a college education to a coach was of inestimable worth. As in every other walk of life, it is the trained matter below the scalp that counts. Athletics showed
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