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Show Prep School Stars Often Fail in College Football By Aubrey Devine All America Ittl, rptin lews 19U. "Bla Tea" Champion. Winning th varsity letter Is th sm-bttlon sm-bttlon of every preparatory school athlete who aoee to cnllece. A gieat many nf them f!1 There era only eleven reculare on a football team, and hundred of high school stars enter th big colleges every fall. I am Inclined to think that the htch school star find eollec football much th am as th minor lagu ball player flnda the major league. It takes lota of bard work and plenty of ability to make th erade In either case. Collec football l not all glory. al thouch som people and piayr seem to entertain auch an Impression. KFIKOXA TOR FA1M RK. The failure of many notabl high school football stars to mak good In eollec football has prompted th laymen to Inquire In-quire why It I that htgU school stars do Dot mak good In eollece. Now, vry thing In thle world Is rels tlv. not excepting football, and many relatively rel-atively mediocre plyrs become what are termed nlch school star simply because the quality of th men tbey play with and aralnst In their bleb, school days Is vn lower than their own. In the eyea of tb heme folks and the tporta writers back In th horn town, th avrag player Is often transformed Into th "star." And when such a man come to collec. greater thine sr expected of bim tba he can possibly deliver. And then tb people ak why thla hick school star failed to mak good In collec- But there r many btch school stars, men of real football foot-ball ability, who hav mad coed records In high school fotball, who fall to sustain sus-tain th promts of their precollege day, and tb reason for their fallur lies, gen-Tlly gen-Tlly speaking. M one er a aumber ol thlnga I am about to speak of. METTLE If) TESTED. In th first plac. th prospect that a particular high school star haa of making mak-ing sood la collec ta not alway as good a h and friends oftentimes think for. If the particular collec h enter ta el-ready el-ready possessed of good football material, gathered from other part. th "sttf" shrink In comparison before ths larger and briebter constellation Into which he has been graduated. If, on th other hand, th college is bard up for good footba If material, ths high school star haa a rars opportunity to do great thlnga II ut th quality of th man himself Is ef greater Important than th quality of th foot bat Imatertal of bla eollece In determining de-termining whether or not h shall mak good In collec football. And her Is whr his high school training count. Does b know how to train? Does b rigidly refrain emoalog. drinking and keeplnc late hour? If h do obey the elementary rules ef training and Is blessed with a sound body and a clear bad, then It goes without with-out saying that his chanc of making good In collec la renatderablr Increased over other men of equal ability wbo ar less mindful ef th Importance ef training. |