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Show Basketball Players Must Learn To Relax, Says Denver Mentor By LOUDON KELLY DENVER, Jan. 28 (AP) To be a good basketball player, you must learn to relax. The big difference between a star cage performer and a good football player Is the difference between looseness and tenseness, says Clyde W. (Cac) Hubbard, who coaches both sport. He is the head basketball coach and assistant football coach at Denver university. Tense for Football "A player must be tense for football," foot-ball," Hubbard said today, "but for basketball he must relax. There's all the difference in the worM hit- tween the two games. As a general thing, a football star does not make a good basketball player. "It takes him too long to relax and get loose. Down there under the basket, where there is a lot of contact, he is inclined to tighten up and soon fouls himself right out of the ball game." A larger percentage of football players in the Rocky Mountain conference con-ference play basketball, the Denver coach believes, than In nearly any conference In the country. Clark Exception "You'll .find that a school that rank near the top nationally in basketball rarely has a football man In the lineup," Hubbard said. "One reason, of course, is that at many schools drills for a hard basketball campaign start early in the fall and a football man doesn't have a chance to take part" Hubbard, a former football, basketball bas-ketball and baseball star at Oregon . 5?11('e- ail "Dutch" Clark of tha Detroit Lions Is a notable exception ex-ception to the rule the average football luminary fails to click on a basketball court Clark waa a cage star In both high school and college ?d. nt Ryan nd E1 Wade of Utah Aggies. Byron White of Colorado Colo-rado university and Elmo Cromer or Greeley State are current examples ex-amples of football standouts who are also accepted stars on R. M. C cage teams. |