Bee, 1923-03-22

              the bee vol 11l university of buffalo march 22 1923 no 22 famous pitt grid hero to coach grid men established great record as assistant coach of centre college last season — saw two years war service in blue ridge division pitts burg sport writers unstinted in praise of u b coach gibson smith write that he was shining light in penn-pitt tilt ilv chester 1 sml'h spoils editor pittsburgh qazette times james d bond who will conch the u of buffalo eleven next fall was b member of the famous university of pittsburgh elevens of 1915 16 19 and 20 coached by gleen s poll warn er it was during these years that the panthers turned out one champion ship aeam after another and bond was one of the important cogs on the line luring that time playing guard a greater number of the games and al ternatiiv at taclc best seasons were 20 and s1 bond's college course was interrup ted with the outbreak of the world war he enlisted with the three hun dred and twenty-first machine oun battalion blue ridge division and saw more than two years service in france returning to the united states he resumed his duties at pittsburgh and rejoined the football squad his best seasons were 1920 and 1921 when he was considered one of the best men on warner's great lines real alii in moulding praying col onels following his graduation bond played semi-professional baseball in the pittsburgh district and the fol lowing fi'm succeeded claude thorn bill as assistant football coach to un cle charley muran at centre college he enjoyed more than the ordinary shore f success there and was given credit for moulding the praying col onel's staunch forward wall last sea son praised i prominent pllt sport writer ily flobent gibson former sport editor pittsburgh post bond eot his first grid lessons at central high school pittsburgh playing with the interscholastic elev en from 1910 through 1913 andrew kerr who is now head coach at le land stanford university was central high'.s mentor at the time and he drilled jimmy in the fundamentals of the game bond put central high on the ath h'tii linnament for he was a four letter man and won laurels in foot ball baseball basketball and track eqven in those days he attracted at eiitiun i 1 coaches and scouts for his pep and versatility jimmy went to pitt in 1914 and that showed the nerve in him consid ering the fact that at that time bu rherland sies and soppit were pitts guards thornhill and hockcnsehmidt were tackles and bob peck was the center bond was broke out with courage alright starred as tackle on krnsli team he nicely nursed a tackle position on the freshman team that year but it wasn't long before he made them givt him consideration for he busted into the big game line-ups as center guard and tackle in 15 and lli then jimmy took himself to france with the american armies serving for almost two years in the a 10 k lie was in most of the fighting and got shot up in the saint mihiel drive wounds that he received in his right leg would have discouraged tlu average athlete but not bond hi returned to pittsburgh in the fall ol 1919 and played again on the varsi ty that year and in 20 the injury bothered him a great deal but bond couldn't be spared he limped nis chubblness into many a hard-bitten struggle which lie should have watched from the bench was whole works in penii-pim straggle florent gibson editor in the pitts burgh post iii picking his greatest all-arourd team for the season si bond all american selection to prep varsity gridders here wounded in worldwar great success as moran's aid at centre john o bond who won undying gridiron fame as a lineman at uni versity of pittsburgh in 1915-16-18-19 f.nd later acquired considerable pres tige as .■!. conch of guards and tackles at centre college will he the 192 football mentor at university of buf falo bond comes to buffalo to take charge of the blue and white eleven under circumstances which augur strongly for his success he will have full swing of opera lions and the unified support of fa tuity and student body his advent ! s cxpecud to mark a new regime in feights ridlron activities the new athletic councillors have proceeded slowly and carefully in establishing i sound system and by signing bond they believe they have a long stride in the right direction tributes from all pans of the coun try were pouring into the athletic council otiees today from some of the foremost men in football who com pliment 1 of i upon securing such an able instructor bond is extreme ly popular wherever he locates in ability is best attested to by those who hav viewed his career wai assistant coaoll lit centre l.iisl season liond las season was line coach and assistant to charley moran of cen t-e college bond it is understood will have full charge of all football operations at the university liond is exactly five feet ten inchi s call and when in playing shape weights from 195 to 200 pounds he appears rather stocky with much weight ivnterc '. around his chest ami legs an ideal build for a lineman in his college days bond was noted for outplaying more rangy and heavier opponents and he has always been a keen student of the game and a born leader bond s well known throughout the east as one of the greatest line play ers of his day and last season was line-ooaich and assistant to charley moran at center college where he helped to weld the praying colonel combination into one of the most formidable teams of the season v li officials in long negotiation officials of the u of i have been negotiating with bond feu some time and in signing the ex-l'itt star it is understood demanded lull swing i all gridiron operations it is expect ed that the securing of such a nation ally-famous coach will put new lite nto the student body of the univer sity and already reports are in circu lation th'it a majority of the men heavy and light alike are eagerly awaiting ihe call to practice next call it was during his yean that the panthers turned out one champion ship gridiron aggregation after an other anj bond was one of the main cogs on the line during that time playing guard a greater number of the games and alternating at tackle wonderful athletic career at pitt bond's record at pittsburgh univer sity bordered upon the brilliant when breaking in he was forced through cut his entire freshmen year to scrim mage against no other llenmen than he great lock sutherland all-am crican nr.n boppltt and sies guards butch tnornhill and the giant hock enschmidc tackles and bob pecki ■ in t iiu game's greatest centers bond's rying ordeals against the tiest first-defense men in the college world w.,11 warner's praise and bond himself a human battering ram of 198 pounds soon made good and was sta tloned in a regular position in 1915 after tli it season bond enlisted in the army and served for two years he was in most of tile offenses laun ched in ivrance and was shot down in the big si mihlel drive university debate team clashes with pittsburg wednesday march 28th varsity meets very formidable opposition in home appearance — hutch audito rium scene of contest the university debate team meet the university of pittsburgh in the hutchinson high school auditorium wednesday evening march 28th on the question of the cancellation of the allied war debt this is the first home appearance of the debate team mid according to present indications it will b the final debate of the year inasmuch as the s a c has restric ted the budget of the debate club the university of pittsburgh needs io introduction in athletics its teams have written the name of their university in large letters on the map . f sport in debating circles pitts burg's powress is likewise respected imd it is indeed a feat for u of b to secure a place on pitts schedule there is no doubt but that pittsburgh will enter the debate a favorite for its polished combination of experien ced speakers and veteran debaters can not be underestimated on the ether hand the varsity debate team iiae been very successful thus far and its overwhelming victory at geneva over hobart college is sufficient proof nf its strength the debate next wednesday eve ning will depend as far as its outcome la concerned upon the support which the students give to it the general inertia of the student body of the i'niversl'y of buffalo has unfortun ately come to be accepted as a mat ter of yours no matter what the university function is if 25 pr ct of the tilutlent body manages to put in an ippearance there is cause for rejoic ing it is not going too far to as sert that nothing in the i'niversity of liuffalo has ever received 100 sup port on the part of the students i here is no time like the present however to try to accomplish the seemingly impossible why not a real turn out for the pitt debate it is certain that if the pitt debaters have t talk to empty chairs they will not be very anxious to come to buffalo again then too the u b debaters came home from geneva with a 3 to 0 decision and surely that is worthy of some support dean alden of the law school will preside chancellor capen is at pres ent selecting judges the u b team is composed of justin morgan cup tain sidney parber and daniel katz the question to be debated is re solved that the allied war debts to the united slates should be can celled pittsburgh will uphold the af flrmatlve and buffalo the negative against hobart i b had the affirm ative of the same question on march 29th pittshurg will meet colgate at it ma he mentioned that the can cellation of the allied war debts has been chosen as the subject for a na tion wide essay contest open to all university students t'hus in addi tion to supporting his school team the u b student will find material which may aid to win the 100 prize offered for the first time in i b debate history which if very young the de haters have been under the supervi sion of coaches miss wilner of the arts college faculty walter kendall and martin bueeking attorneys have been coaching the team they have contributed much of their time and i heir work has been of great value john h beckley is debate manager and is in full charge of all arrange ments the deliate will be held at hutchin son hiffh school and there is no ad mission charge at this time when students feel the heavy drain of va rious activities at least there is one university function to which no fee in attached the doors will be thrown open to the public as is the custom in all debates everyone is welcome where connected with the university or not last year when hobart came to buffalo the question debated was a trade unic.n question and a consider able pan of the audience was made up of men this year those seats must be tilled by university students for those unionists can not be count ed upon again it is a mistaken no tion that debates are dry uninter esting affairs the coming clash with pittsburgh is bound to develop into an exceedingly interesting contest not quite as exciting as a prize fight to be sure but yet of considerable ap peal as usual the issue is up to the students they can make or break what appears to be a most promising student activity commemoration exercises held in honor of copernicus a worthy precedent was started friday march l(i when a large body of students enjoyed lectures by dr more and dr bovnton of the arts college in honor of the 45jth linnl versity of the birth of astronomer copernicus introduced by dean park the speakers held the deep at tention of the large audience pro fessor more grave a brief outline of the astronomers and philosophers preceding and following copernicus and explained their conceptions of the universe he brought out clearly the popular attitude of contemporaries of copernicus and showed the great moral courage necessary to declare such revolutionary theories as did copernicus professor boynton speak ing from the philosophic il point of view showed the philosophical conse quences of the astronomer discov eries prof moore in opening his lecture said that in life the question why is only occasionally asked man i too prone to accept things as he sees i bem he also pointed out the neces sity of a sympathetic environment lor science to flourish copernicus li saiil in part was a quiet careful scholarly monk and not a phenomin il giant in intellect as we might sup pose jn bis book concerning the revelation of the heavenly bodies which he dedicated to the pope this sombre monk did not speculate but proved that the sun was the center of our solar system and that the earth revolved about it contempor aries were not concerned however with the truth and were reluctant to change their views 1 professor more then told of the old conception of a flat earth where the sun rose in the east and drove his flaming chariot across the sky to set in the west and as the professor said sneak hack lie hind the mountains to the east chil dren in those days were just about as presumptuous as they are today and teachers just as impatient for to thu insolent questions of how does the sun get back to the east the instructors would answer children shouldn't ask such foolish luestions 1 also adult man of today has evident ly changed little if we are to believe dr more when he says that people in those days were indignant over the relative insignificance of man which the optimal idea suggested bond tells local editor u b squad will defeat holy cross says warner system of coaching will be employed next fall buffalo news stuff correspondent jim bond thi university if jiuffa io's new football coach lias three ob jects in view he laid last night in an intel view at his home here i want to work out a plan that will keep buffalo boy in their home city after they leave high school said the new eoich 1 am told buffalo high schools have turned out many star players but that nearly all of them have gone to cornell columbia or some of the rther eastern ichoola these men should be the foundation of the uni versity if buffalo teams and 1 hope to devise with the help of the uni versity athletic council some plan which will change this condition will i'ivn team to mrfeut hobiirt and holy cross another object which i have in view and toward which 1 will ask the team to work is the defeat of ho bort and holy cross this will he a big job hut i believe it can be ac complish d these will be the big games of our 1923 schedule but we hope to capture the others as well third object which 1 have in mind is the development of a school spir it which will enable the university of buffalo team to have a better sched ule th in it has had in the past while its foes of 1923 are all worthy the schedule can scarcely lie called representative such a large university should lie so supported in its athletic activities that it can arrange to meet strong teams than have been encountered in the past 1 will employ va r llcr coaching sys tem mr bond made it known that he will base his coaching on the warn er system of running interference besides three backs he will use the two guards in the interference ii will also introduce plays which he raw while acting as assistant coach at center college last fall this con nection guve him opportunity to ob berve the leading bouthern teams in action continued on pngc three roil tinned on page ("") continued un pagi tu continued on pag two subscribe to the iris boost the bison