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Show FOOIB ALL PLAYERS HAVE MANY STRANGE FANCIES ffl According to Delaney the athletes ) are given to almost childish meth- () ods of play when at rest. An in- ( stance related by 'the trainer was oft man who during more than an () hour pored over a map of the Unit- (A ed States, drawing lines with his index finger and Imagining he was ) traveling over the country which J (J) his finger crossed. ' Jcrc Dclancy Says Ailment Ail-ment Like Softening of Brain Attacks Them. CHICAGO. Nov. 19. Football players, according to Jere Delaney, trainer of Northwestern University eleven, are subject to an ailment similar to softening soften-ing of the brain, which leads not only to the making of peculiar statements, but causes strange actions which sometimes some-times are amusing. The exact cause of the trouble. Trainer Train-er Delaney said, he is unable to fathom. He declared, however, that it results more from the long-continued physical and nervous strain to which the men are subjected 'storing the three months of rigid training which they are forced to undergo than from the blows, kicks and bumps they receive on their skulls during games. "It is known," said Delaney. "that every player of the game fights his games over and over again In his dreams, but only by the men who-are in closest touch with the players is It recognized that they are given to constant con-stant day dreaming, during which they make strange motions, as If struggling with an imaginary opponent." |