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Show of Northwestern. Dobson of Nebraska, Wlllaman of Ohio State. BlolHTnl of Northwestern. North-western. Halus of Illinois. Keefe. Jones und Bachman of Notre Panic, Menden-hnll Menden-hnll of Iowa. Conielman of Washington, NlntOXl of Indiana, Blacklock of Michigan Vgglcs. Abrahamnon of Kansas Normals. I'onmd of Michigan. McClellan of West Virginia and Krlckson of St. Olars. Molding Team From Football Stars Is Not an Easy Matter (iRKAT LAKES. VBL Oct. 20 Herman I P. Olcott. head football coach at the ! Oreat Lakes Naval Training station, gives an Interesting view Into the art of weld-tug weld-tug together a team from a squad of Individually brilliant players, forcing them to forget past 1eson and Impressing upon them his own idea. Olcott Is doaltng only with eignteen-karat eignteen-karat players this year. His team consists con-sists of the pick of the w estcm COnfer -pure and a few men from other college, such as Notre Ha me and Nebraska. I Kvery one of them Iiah starred indlvldu-i indlvldu-i ally for the pat few seasons. Of course. I each served under a different coach and absorbed different Ideas of the correct way to play football. Naturally, when lcoi t gat her. -d them together to erase their Individuality and mold them Into one machine, he found the pa t h rouu h : nd rocky. "1 often hear football men remark on my 'easy' (ask of bringing out a team l from my all-star material." says the head I coach. "I'll admit the material Is there. II would not Hade with any coach In the I rountry. "But the fact that the players are I famou" makes my tnsk nil the more difficult. dif-ficult. Bach roun has been brought up on a certain style of fothl. Me has played that part icular way for t hroe or four years. To him that Is the only cor- l rect way. 'Now. there sre a hour thirty players on my first squad, assembled from about t went y -five different school. and coaches, each of whom have used entirely different methods. I must wipe out all of their p:ist. unless It coincides with my way of teaching And It Is no easy task to tell an all-western man his playing Ih i wrong, when by following thnt style he has risen to great heights. "Nor Is It an easy task to get an nll- , star team running smoothly In iam work. 1hc most Important "f all fiMOtlOtll Of) th gridiron. Practice alone will bring results, hut I hi ve fsr from an easy taak." (irent iJikes has such stars as Drlscoll |