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Show POOR COACHING IS MANY j I TIMES SERIOUS HANDICAP , i. . 4 Dnl By AUBREY DEVINK, I All-America 1921, Captain iwu 19S1, " Big Ten" lhainpion -Keeping fit, however, is not the only element that determines the star's prospects in college. The coaching he has received In high school is also Important I Many high school coaches have never played college football. When a high school coach, who ho a not had the benefit of the expert coaching coach-ing und training that goes with college col-lege football, starts out to teach football foot-ball to high school players he. is apt to generalize and In so doing overlook the technique in the fundamentals of football. namely. correct parsing, tackling blocking and shifting and carrying the ball POOR COACHING HURTS ! A high school star who has not learned to execute these fundamentals In the right way Is handicapped from !the start. In football, as In everything every-thing else it is much easier to teach a raw and Inexperienced recruit how to do things In the right way than it Is to reform a good m;m who has learned to do thoso vory fame things In the wrong way. ! Therefore-, if you would know the prospects that a high school star has of making good in college, consider first his manner of living and the quality of tho coaching he lias received re-ceived In high school. Upon entering collegiate football competition, the man fresh from high school must buck up agolnst much more formidable material than he has met with In high school. He must expect ex-pect to be pitted against men of more Weight and greater speed who extend themselves in a way he never dreamed of back on the hometown field, lb-will lb-will find that tho college coaches give a good deal more attention to details, to technique and execution. PL ERS MUSI SP1 ' i IJJZE The "prep" star will find that If he hopes to make tho varsity he will have to specialize for some particular post- svwf tlon on the team. If the coaches look UB iupon him as a potential center, he MjjSJj must learn the nature and require- men! of the center position by heart raw If he is to be an end. he must learn tVlif football technique and strategy from the standpoint of an end. w'Hl j Then, too, the hlch school star should 'realize from the start of his ollege football career that he Is more IBw or less under martial law, and that SfHH he need expect no coddling from the lpKfl coaches. He mutt steel himself to Wlifl hearing the coaches tell him in plain. EllsK unvarnished English in Just what BiMB matters ho is lacking SEl The competition and the discipline RP 'may be a little Irksome, hut If a man WfH ;is tfoing to make good in college foot- jBjgjfH ball he must pay the price for his il .success. SmI no |