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Show ; SMALL TEAMS UPSET PLANS OF BIG CREWS Large Colleges Are No Longer Supreme, Says Bo McMillin. (Editor's Note. This is the first of a series of football articles written ex-preesly ex-preesly for The standard 'Examiner n iders by no" IfeMlUln, Ali-Amer-Ican backfleld selection dunnc the K'2 1 srrldlron race. His articles of big intersct to sports followers wlU "r i' -r on the sports page dally.) li-k BO M.MII.MN Ml- Imertonn 0"J,rterba k Center CoUcro at Danville, Ky., Is prahapi the most talked about smali college in the country. Football put Centre College on the I map. Fie years ago only a select few knew- there was such an institution. Today It is mentioned as frequently I as Harvard. Yale or Princeton. Centre College broke into big print four years ago when it decisively ' defeated tho University Oi West Virginia. Vir-ginia. Earlier In the year "West Virginia Vir-ginia had surprised t he football world by Its defeat of Princeton, one - of tho strongest teams that ever represented the ''Orange and Black. " M isi N s BIG 1 KRUjL. Last fall Centre put .er th- big thrill of the season by lbs 6 to u defeat de-feat of Harvard. Centres rise to fame 1n the football foot-ball world has been typical of the success that a great many small colleges have enjoyed in recent i years. The new football featuring tho forward pass has helped to pave the way for the smaller colleges. N j longer Is ther such a premium on beef and reserves. Speed Is the keynote of the new I gan.e. It calls for fast, well condl-I condl-I tloned players. Strategy supplants i braw n. suMl II IMN(. spoin However, If you go back into tho history of the sensational rise of most of the smaller college teams you will find there is some lending spirit who has done much to put them 1 over. A good illustration of this can be piven through the recent success of my alma mater. The man behind It all th-r.- was Robert I... Myers, aj Centre ilumnus. Many have the Im-presslon Im-presslon that this team Just hap- j pi ned or built Itself, but such Is not true. In 191t Myers took It upon himself to encourage a few students stu-dents from his homo town high school to go with him to Centre. Where he had voluntarily offered his services as coach without remuneration. remunera-tion. Among this crowd were several All-State high school men and otheia who later mado All-America and All-Southern selections before leaving leav-ing college. The man working at this had ;-l'ns of a great football team at Centre College and through his wonderful personality and untiring untir-ing efforts s great organization was perfected. PIjATEBS TjIKI BROTHERS m- of tin hlgg.'si fai tors on a successful football team Is the feeling feel-ing and relation of the players among themselves In this Myers stressed special attention. The men played and fought as. a band of brothers. There was not a man on the team who would not go through fire for his college or coach. This is something that Is usually lacking at the large Institutions. At a small college tho players are grouped In a few small buildings. Every man knows every other man on the campus. There Is s f- llnr of fellowship among the students At all college activities these men are belnc constantly thrown inrail.A. Their relationship Is In common. At the large schools a football team Is more like some mechanical device. There Is never the fight and the spirit shown as where all the men know each other and are like one hitf family. .i iriN', urn rn . mi The high school athlete is beginning begin-ning to recognize the advantages of the timaller Institutions and In this way better material is being found there. These same smaller schools are realizing the advantages of good clean athletics to tho growing boy and are securing more capable men as coaches. I believe It is due to these reasons more than to the ihange In the rules, favoring tho open style of play that Is bringing th small Institutions in a position to compete with the larger ones on the footljall field. oo - |