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Show Molding Team Out of Stars -No! a Picnic Great Lakes Coach Runt Into Unique Problem ; Too Many All-Stars. GREAT LAKES. Ill, Oct. IT Herman P. Olcott, head football foot-ball cosch at the Great Lakes naval training station, gives an Interesting view Into the art of welding weld-ing together a team from a squad of Individually brilliant players, forcing them to forget past lessons snd Impressing Im-pressing upon them his own Idess. Olcott Is dealing only with eighteen-karat eighteen-karat playera this year. His team consists of ths pick of ths Western conference snd a few star men from other colleges, such as Notre Dame and Nehraaka. "I often hear football men remark on my 'easy' task of bringing out a team from my all star material." says the heed coach. "I'll admit the material Is there. I would not trade with any coach In the country. "Rut the fact that the player are famous makes my task all th more difficult. Each man has been brought up on a certain tyle of football. foot-ball. He haa played that particular way for three or four yeara. To him that 1 the only correct way.' "Now, there are about thirty player play-er en my fir squad, assembled from about twenty-fivs different schools and coaches, each of whom has used entirely different methods. "I roust wipe out ell of their past unless It coincides with my way of teaching. And It Is no easy task ttf tell an all Western man hla playing ia wrong when by following that atyle he has risen to great heights. "Nor is it an easy task to get an all star team running smoothly In team work, the moat Important of alt functions on the gridiron. "Practice alone will bring results, but I have far from aa easy task." |