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Caption: Booklet - Articles and Letters about UI Coaching (1922 Selections)
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JERSEY JOURNAL Continued the same willingness and eagerness to absorb its leaders of higher education that the business showed. During 1919 athletic coaching was made a four-year course. The result will be more abundantly equipped men holding athletic control. Athletics must necessarily benefit because of this contact. George A. Huff, is director of the course in athletic coaching at the Illinois University. Who is Huff? Huff is a college man himself. He began his career at the University of Illinois in 1889. He made the football and the baseball teams. Later, he attended Dartmouth Medical College and played football and baseball there. In 1895 he came to Illinois as coach of the football and baseball teams. Jake Stahl, leader of the Boston Americans when they won a World's Championship, learned baseball from him. Other players he developed are Carl Lundgren, for eight years with the Cubs; Pitcher Fred Falkenberg, Ray Demmitt, late of the Yankees, and Jack Bradley. During the summer months he acted as a big league baseball scout and he unearthed such stars as Tris Speaker, Ed. Ruelbach, King Cole and Hans Lobert. By all means let us have athletic coaches who are college trained. The more college learning, college tradition, college ideals that filter through the trades and professions, the better. It is inevitable that this class of training must tell, and it is fitting that it should be evident in so wide a range as is covered by the athletic amusements of a great people.
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