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Show - MUST DEVELOP SPEED IN BOTH ACTION AND THOUGHT -4 11Y ABRKY DF.VIM. All-America 1921, Captain Iowa 1921, "Big r n ' Champions H In preparing himself to make the H college team, the high school star H iiust first of all fit himself physi- rally and mentally for t hi- stress and strain of collegiate football, fl Physical and mental fitness como first, and with these, as a rule, you may expect to find confidence. In fact, confidence in himself may be said to be Included in the players mental fitness Having laid this foundation. the fl player must develop greater spe fl than was e er demanded of him la his most strenuous high school coni-bats coni-bats He must develop speed not only ( In action, but in thinking as well, B and above all he must school hlms U to keep his head In the game every H minute, during practice as well as1 in regular frames. MANY ARE BAD1 COACHED. The newcomer from high school ' must remember what the coach- toll him. At college ho will find thai there are too many m-n on thei squad to allow the coaches time to J go around amongst the men night I after night, telling each individual ! ' l.o same thing over and over again I Coaches are looking for the men ,w-ho remember to do as they affc told. And right in this connection is whero the player's natural aptitude for football, or what Is sometimes I called "football sense," reveal Itself. ) If he- has It, the Instructions of the coaches will bring It out Assuming that the high school ! player has met ail tho requirement s .above laid down, there yet remain certain other requirements which he must meet before In- can exp-et to make the college team The first Is weight- A high school star of the first magnitude may no hopelessly barred from success In college football simply because he lackj th weight necessary' to f Ight j on anything like even terms with the men he is thrown with on the college squad. I might rite the cases of several men who have come under my personal per-sonal observation, who have gone to college after making all-state high school teams, and have failed to make good In college through no fault of their own. but simply be-causo be-causo they lacked t.he required weight. And right lu re let me say that su-I perlor weight Is an asset only when the man can handle It. A clumsy big i man may lie less formidable than a I skillful little fellow, but that fact doesn't help the little fellow much because It Is not the clumsy big men, who make the varsity, but rather tho big men who know how la in lie themselves |