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But these mon are not in physical education.

That is right, Doctor. Our majors course in physical cducation was not
started in any of our American colleges, in the main, until aftcr the
World Ware The exception, of course, applies to Columbia, Now York
University, and Wisconsin. Now there are hundrods and hundreds of col-
legos in America offering this course. In fact, I ao not know of a sin-
gle colloge in the state of Kansas, or for that matter, in the land, that
does not offer a course in training young men and women in physical ed-
ucation.

Do you think that most of these colleges that are offering this course
are equipped to give a coach a real thorough training in tho basic
fundamentals fro the development of individuals?

Not a fulsome course, Doctor. But there is a domand for this type of
work in all the high schools, and many of the graduates from the smaller
colleges will accept a position at a salary that gives them employment
as a teacher in academic subjects and as a part-time coach. Most of

our varsity athletes are engineers, lawyors, journalists, and graduates
of the School of Business. It is the business of the University to
train professional men, and for that vory reason we have not turned out
many coaches. However, this nowly organized department of physical ed-
ucation, in the School of Educstion, will supply to the high schools
many teachors in physical cducation and athletic coaching. This has not
been true herctofore.

Now, Doctor, you have touched upon a subject that has been a hobby with
me for a number of yoars. That is that cach institution should havo a
man to look after the physical welfare of the students as head of a
department of physical education, omploying the instructors in other de-
partments to coach the sevoral teams. Thon, when the students or the
alumni demand a new coach for the teams this man simply returns to his
teaching work, and tho departmont of physical education goes on without
interruption. |

Perhaps some time the various boards of oducstion of the high schools
will accept your splendid theory and obtain both a director of physical
education and an athletic coach. ‘yandotte High School in Kansas City,
Kansas, and in fact, all the high schools in Kansas City, Kansas - Ar-
gentine, Roscdale and Wyandotte, have this scheme in operation and it is
highly satisfactory. Too many educators and laymon confuse the spectac-
ular phase of athletics with the more prosaic development of the in-
dividual. It is very seldom that a coach who is the high-tension, in-
spirational typo of fellow is concerned with the more serious business
of building a departmont and devotes all his energies to developing

the young men under him. When you get a combination of both, the young
man you have is idcal. Thon if he can organize, deputize and supervise,
this set-up is truly a wonderful organization.