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Show I 4n 4. "PREP" STARS OFTEN FAIL IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL 4 By AUBREY DEVTNTD, All-America iP2j. cvtpuin Iowa 1921. 'Ul 'IVn" Champions. j T"SnninB- the- varsity letter is the ambition of ovory preparatory school athlete who (roes to college." A great many of them fail. There ffck regulars on a foot- jjjjh ball team and hun- school ' Kta.r? enter Sf I ain Inclined to Z li ink that the high ??j school star finds gpr' VJ ( o 1 1 e ge football tjjw much the name as make the grade in nmnvc either case. College in b football tsn'1 all glory although some people and players play-ers seem to entertain such an Impression Im-pression REASONS FoK FAHjTJR The failure of many notable high school football stars to make good In college football has prompted the laymen lay-men to Inouire why It Is that hljzh Ischool slarn do not make good in col-liege. col-liege. I Now everything in this world is relative, not excepting football, and I many relatively mediocre players become be-come what are termed high nchool stars simply because the quality of the men they play with and ugalnst In their high school days Is even lower low-er than their ow n. In the eyes of the home folks and the sports writers back in the home 4 town the averaRo player 1s cften transformed Into the "star" And when such 8 man comes to college greater things are expected of him than ho can possibly deliver and (then the peoplo ask why this high jsrhool star failed to make good In college. But there are many high ischool stars, metl of real football ability, abil-ity, who have made good records in high school football nho fall to sustain sus-tain the promise of their prc-eol-)-.- day, and the reason for their failure lies, generally speaking, in one or a number of the things I am about to speak of. METTLE IS TESTED. In the first place, the prospect that a particular high school star has of making good In college is not always al-ways as good as he and his friends oftentimes think for. if the particular particu-lar college he enters Is already possessed pos-sessed of good football material gathered gath-ered from other parte 'be "star" shrinks in comparison before th" larcer and brighter constellation into which he nas been graduated, lr, on the other hand, the college Is hard up for good football material the high School &'ar has a rare opportunity to do great things. But the quality of the man himself jls of greater Importance than thel quality of the football material of his college in determining whether or not . he will make good in college footf all J And here is where his hiph school i training counts. Docs ho know how ;to train? Does he rigidly refrain from smoking, drinking and keeping late hours? i If he does obey these elementary rules of training and Is blest with a sound body and a clear head then It goes without saying that his chance of making good in college Is considerably consid-erably Increased over other men of equal ability who arc loss mindful of the importance of training. |