Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #1 [PAGE 8]

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THEY HAVE MADE GOOD

Let's Give Them Room in a Stadium. Director Huff has been on the coaching staff of Illinois athletics since 1895. He was a student in the University and its academy during the period 1887-93. During the year 1894-95 he was a student in Dartmouth medical college. In both colleges he played baseball and football. In 1895 he was made director of athletics and coach of baseball and football in the University. Since 1901 he has been director of physical training for men. During this time he has determined the athletic policy of the University, and has established its enviable record in competition and its good name in sportsmanship. Along with his duties as physical director he was the baseball coach until 1920 when he retired from active coaching to devote his time exclusively to work connected with his position as director of athletics. Harry Gill, track coach, is a former champion. In 1900 he won the amateur all-round championship of America at Boston. In 1903 he won the professional all-round supremacy. At one time he held the world's record in the discuss. He established marks of 145 feet in the hammer throw, 45 feet in the shot put, six feet two inchse in the high jump, and ran the high hurdles in :16 flat. He was track coach at Beloit college in 1902-03. In 1904 he came to the University of Illinois. Bob Zuppke, football coach, was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1905. He made the freshman football team but was too light for the varsity. He served three gruelling years as a substitute player. He was a member of the Wisconsin basketball team which won the conference championship in 1905. From 1906 to 1913 he was in the Muskegon and Oak Park high schools as a teacher of history and coach. At both schools he had championship football teams. During his three years at Oak Park his football team lost only one game, the first one played after his arrival. In 1912 it won the national championship. He came to the University of Illinois in 1913. Major Griffith was graduated from Beloit college in 1902. From 1902 to 1905 he was director of athletics at Youngtown college. From 1905 to 1908 he was director of athletics at Morningside college, Iowa. In 1908 he became director of athletics at Drake University, retining this position for ten years. In 1916, in addition to this position he was made dean of men, and in the absence of the president acted in his place. He founded and managed the Drake relay meets. In August 1917 he entered the army as athletic director of Camp Dodge, Iowa. He served there a year and had charge of the organized recreation for the 30,000 men stationed at the camp. In August 1918 he was ordered to Camp Gordon to help establish a school of physical training and bayonets. In September he was ordered to Camp Pike to take charge of a similar school there. On January 11 he was ordered to Washington to become executive officer of the athletic division of the War Department Commission on training camp activities. Ed Manley, director of intra-mural athletics and swimming instructor, came to the University in 1912. He has had wide experience as a swimmer and instructor of teams in water sports. Previous to his coming to the University he was a member of the Missouri Athletic club and swimming and water polo teams which won the championship of the A. A. U. His swimming teams have never finished below third place in the conference. In 1913 he won the conference championship and in 1914 lost it by one point. His water basketball teams finished first in the conference in 1917 and in 1920. Some of Manley's swimmers hold world's records. As a director of intra-mural athletics he has organized volunteer competitive sports to a high degree. (Continued on Page Twenty-four)

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