Show WHAT IS MOST VITAL TO A GREAT ATHLETE capacity for nervous emotion says coach stagg chicago university pilot cond coined an n athletic truism recently which Is I 1 one off truest bits bitis of philosophy ever uttered alonzo stags stagg the powerfully built little I 1 ekman man who has coached at caca go eo university for over twenty years coined an athletic truism recently which according to the belief of many competent of things athletic who heard the phra phrase seis Is one of the truest bits of athletic philosophy ever uttered stagg was asked to name what he considered to be tile the most vital or valuable trait in the truly great athlete the man who has had thousands of varsity candidates in all branches of intercollegiate sport under his control hesitated only tor for a moment then he said the capacity for nervous emotion that capacity will carry a man through when his arms heart and less leggs lire are pone gone arte ome capacity tor for nervous emotion I 1 stages audience began to reflect it was recalled that lurry larry brown ran the last 50 yards of his great halt half mile when the penn team broke the worlds record for the two mile relay as an if he were in a trance on almost mery avery stride he stumbled coach alonzo stagg and reeled and from the stands it looked as though he would collapse col lapie before he reached the tape according to all visible evidence brown wits physically through star 8 believes that only his capacity for ner nervous voul emotion the ability to command hidden den reserves of the spirit kept him going on to finish that last brilliant half in and clinch a new worlds record for ills his team the case of carpentier Car and his comeback come back in the second round at jet jei sey city was recalled battered beaton beaten and crushed by bp the powerful first round blows of dempsey Car carpentier to the wise ones at the ring side was good for not more than a minute in the second stagg believes leves that it was carpentiers lers capacity for nervous emotion tint that brought him back in tile the second round to within it point of victory stagg illustrated his point with tile the story of a chicago half back in a game placed about ten years ens ago tills this player weighed pounds bill stagg believed that lie he had io to a 11 marked degree the capacity for nerv oils ilia emotion ile he was as playing in a fice when the sire score was tied with only give five minutes to play Clil cg had tile the ball with 90 00 yards to go for fin A touchdown stagg ordered the clil chi cago cage quarterback to give the light half back the ball on every play piny on line bucks and end runs rung the half bialt back bac took the ball BO yards in four min utes and won the game after the game stagg took th the youngster loung ster into the dressing room lie ile had to undress and put on 1114 hi 4 street clothes for ailin ile he fin lind I 1 to to take the pla placer er to his big hotel there lie had to stay in the tha youn room until 9 the next net morning when the boy inelly fishily went to sleep p ill aili capacity for nervous bennus emotion lind had been so aroused during dining that go 90 yard march down the field that it could not go baic back to normal until t the I 1 if following morning that alint according too tn the veteran sing is the most nece very ary trait in an athlete |