Show 5 hl I FRANK K BAKER BAKER- If the football fan sho should ld visit Fort Collins Colorado this week hed he'd come away away with a pretty fair inkling of I i why Colorado State comes up with so many many outstanding i athletes like Glenn Morris the he new worlds world's s decathlon champion Chet Cruickshank Red White and a lot Jot of others who have made athletic reputations und under r Coach Hughes I Between 50 and 75 high school coaches chiefly from irom Colorado Colo cob I rado are assembled at Fort Fod Collins for a weeks week's s free instruction in the art of football and ando o other her athletics under the general direction direction II I I I tion n of Coach Hughes This free coaching school W was y s started a few years ago originally intended as asa a general g together get t-t t gether for Colorado State graduates engaged in high sch school ol athletic work The idea had hada a happy appeal to Colorado States State's athletic grads They welcomed wel wel- corned the opportunity to gather on the campus again to r reminisce reminisce rem rem- m- m about thrills of the past to exchange notes on coaching problems and theories and above all to listen ag again agin in to the quaint quaint- yeah quaint yeah and p pessimistic philosophies pessimistic philosophies of their former college college col cob lege coach 0 S S i The he together get-together proved so 50 popular that many of Colorado's Colorados Colo Cob l rados rado's high school coaches who arc are not Colorado State graduates grad grad- 1 t. t expressed the wistful desire esir to fraternize fraternize with their coaching associates tes at such a conclave Colorado State Stat authorities authorities au au- from various quarters and de decided de- de i. i heard heald the expression cid d t tto to throw the e together get-together open to all aU high school t coaches irrespective of their alma mater f f This annual together get-together has undoubtedly proved extremely 11 helpful in rekindling the fir fires s of school spir spirit t tr r for or the old grads It is natural to assume then that their 7 own enthusiasm for their alma mater is frequently the determining determining determining de de- de- de factor when one of their promising I picks kj his nis college In his 25 2 5 years as coach Hughes has sent senti a great gre t crop i to toof of stars into the high school coaching field Counting j assistants nearly 75 former Aggie stars for example are IW coaching in In Colorado schools Down Do in San L Luis is valley for instance five of the si six schools were coached by Color Colorado do State products las last falli fall i And the same was true in the Northern league where five out of six headed by the brilliant Dan Beattie at Fort FortI I Collins high were in the coaching harness 1 All these former prove ideal will good-will ambassadors ambassadors l dors for the Fort Collins institution Whatever time and expense Hughes undertakes in in staging his annual get f L er for his former stars is well veil spent Athletes like to feel 1 i i iJ that their day of importance docs does not end with their com corn petition The college coach who finds time to visit with his fo former mer charges in an nn intimate musing sort of fashion when'd whenever whenever when when- d ever they chance back on the campus is doing a great deal dealto it hh-it- I to cement that for the sc school Nearly every t 1 coach realizes that fact but many complain they don dont don't t have havethe J the time to devote to each individual as they drift back when there is pressing work to be done That's why Hughes js is to b be comme commended ded for ea He I has as set aside a 3 whole 9 week in In the summer when the there e is is no rush Maybe laybe the coaching instruction is not pressed so hard but the boys bos all aU come back to enjoy an inspiring communion And they g go home still thinking nice things about their alma mater and andI I their old coach |