Show WOMAN COACHES WIFE OF THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR OF JONESBORO ARK BREAKS IN AS SCOUT AT GAMES FOOTBALL TEAM THEN TAKES CHARGE OF THE SECOND ELEVEN i 1 4 a air fr 1 AJ By HAROLD JOHNSON She doesn't believe in w woman man suffrage and is not the tho masculine or athletic type of ot woman She w weighs only pounds and dances well She believes the team that fights tights the hardest wins In irs football and she never gives up She Is Irish and French In descent which probably accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts for this attitude The above written by Earl W. W Brannon Bran- Bran non director of ot athletics at Jonesboro Ark Agricultural college Is a tribute to his wife who before she married was Miss 1 Cozette graduate of ot the University of Nebraska and now enJoying enjoying enjoying en- en the distinction of ot being the only woman football coach In A America Mrs Brannon has entered upon her duties as coach of the second eleven at the Jonesboro Agricultural college and already has developed a team that promises to make things warm for their opponents on Dixie 9 I asked I Mrs Irs Brannon to tell her methods methods methods meth meth- of coaching and running a football leven She modestly referred me to her husband who has been eminently successful successful successful suc suc- suc- suc as a gridiron tactician Mrs Brannon has been assisting me In an Informal w way Y for tor two years but this fall faU will be the first season that she has actually had charge of ot one of ot the teams said Mr Brannon BranDon She broke in scouting at games played by our prospective rivals and in that capacity proved to have an excellent excellent excel excel- lent conception of ot the essentials of ot football foot foot- ball She has uncanny ability to pick out the weak places in the formation ofa of ot ofa a play which I have t found very ery valuable valuable val val- val val- aEl in n many different If r t tt ways is For Instance when our formations and plays playe are yet untried experiments ments she Is able to select tho ef effective ef one from the weaker ones She also aiso has made many valuable suggestions which have enabled me meto meto meto to strengthen unsuccessful plays Into successful ones After learning some of the methods used by our opponents she Is nearly al always always always al- al ways able to put her finger on the weak points This gives us considerable ad ad- van vantage tage During the tile time she attended high school and college at Lincoln Neb Mrs Brannon was a keen football fan and student of ot the game I I Wi t |