Boys who play football at Stanford are seldom seen in or near the University's art gallery. But last week the entire Stanford football squad could have entered the gallery in a body, unashamed. It was an occasion. The two great football coachesGlennScobie Warner of Stanford and Robert Carl Zuppke of Illinois— known to the public respectively as Pop & Zup—were having a joint exhibition, not of new play diagrams or designs for uni- forms, but of paintings they themselves had done. On view were landscapes, watercolors, pencil sketches actually executed by two famed hemen. Best known to the art world are the opera of Illinois' chunky, spluttering Germanic Zup. Coach Zuppke was a painter before he was a football coach. In 1905 he arrived in New York with $4 in his pockets and earned a precarious living as a sign painter (once he was overcome with dizziness while painting an enormous cigar sign high over Broadway). Somehow he obtained the post of history instructor and football coach for the Muskegon (Mich.) High School. For the past 18 years he has coached at the University of Illinois. But he never gave up art. He has exhibited many times at the Chicago Art Institute and with private dealers. He makes trips to the Rockies and to Switzerland to paint forests and mountains. Intensely supersti tious, he puts five thin rings on his index finger at the beginning of each football season, keeps them in that order until his team loses a game, shifts them from finger to finger in various combinations until the team wins again. Year ago he wrote a book on football coaching containing innumer able detailed schedules and diagrams (drawn by himself). At the end of each chapter were groups of Zuppke maxims containing such constructive thoughts as: "Get to possible." the "The scoring linesman zone as should quickly not as be taught to punish the face of an opponent." Artist Zuppke takes his painting very seriously, is eager to assure people that it is not an effeminate occupation.
"I lose more weight when painting steadily than I do when coaching,'' he says. "After a couple of weeks of continuous painting I become hollow-eyed. . . . They tell me my work is too brutal sometimes, especially when I do forests. . . . Why should I not paint the forests as they are; is not nature often brutal? I go hunting in the Rockies in Colorado. The trees scratch me, scrape me, their roots trip me . . . and I am expected to come back and paint a park scene!"
Glenn Scobie ("Pop") Warner takes his painting less seriously. One of the oldest football coaches in the industry, he is credited with the invention of the crouching start for linesmen. He gained his greatest fame in 1911 as coach of the Carlisle Indians when the great Thorpe used to tear down the field snorting through his noseguard. Pop's only art in struction came from a village sign painter. Fond also of carpentry, he manufactures all his golf clubs. Said he last week : "Bob Zuppke, they tell me, wears a smock or a duster or something like that, but artist." not for me. I'm a painter, not an
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