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Show FOOTBALL BEST -TRAINING EVER Just the Kind of Athletics a Soldier Needs, Thinks Coach Yost. WHY Btimim football b kepi on the map vhon baseball whi practically wiped out by the war department? Coach 1 Toat of 4 ha Michigan team gives an answer which will net tha stamp of approval from all followers of the grid-Iron grid-Iron sport In tha following: "fteCMUN it develops the physical and moral courage of tha Individual, trachea htm to five and take the ahock of com bat, to think and act Instantly under fire, to sacrifice aelf fur team play, and ae-ruetoens ae-ruetoens him to disrlpltne and to give and ohy commands. It la the beat possible training Tor a soldier, aa witness the long Hat of former Michigan players who hv won commissions in the army and navy. I "There's Redden," Yost continued aa he pulled an envelope from hla pocket ; and etui-led writing names upon It. "He; whb captain of our eleven, and la now a major In the heavy artillery with ths tUinlxjW division In Frame. Tommy 1 Hammond, halfherk on the lnj.l-s team, enjoys an equal rank In iha'eame branch ; and division. Captain Watktna. also In the art tilery, wss fullback In IM7-I. In tha aaina arm of the service, with lieutenant's lieu-tenant's shoulder at rape, are Hull Dunn, end; Whaleti. an all-around man on the 111-14 eleven; funeafnrd. captain, in 1914, and Craig, the all-Americau halfback." half-back." . |