Show STUDENT LIFE 93 trengtib in a Cool ®eab Bcntcn had never had a winning foot-baAlgothy had beaten her every year and it looked as if she were going to do it again Benton had always nut tiled a winning team Of that there was no doubt and even the merchants of their little college town had shown as much But why couldn’t she win? She had fast men she had big men The boys had the best of suits a good manager and as the people ’round town put it “a cracker-jac- k of a coach” “But boys” says the coach “We’ve got to have that man Xeedam!” Xeedam was not the fastest runner in the school nor was he the biggest man in the school Well what was he then ? Why he was the man that every fellow in the student-body instinctively looked to as He was not the grind their leader in the classroom nor the best speech maker on the floor but there was something in his daring way something in his personality something in the way he took the initiative that drew every man to him' and made him their general for whom they would do or die ll It had never dawned upon the foct ball boys that they lacked un- ity in their team They could not see that they were not playing as if they had one big brain to run as a machine They had a quarterback yes and he was a good man too He made long runs and never fumbled the ball But did he have the confidence of his team mates? That’s just what he didn’t have and there is where the rub came The coach made the remark about Xeedam one night in the locker rooms after a hot sweaty scrimmage on the campus Next day it was whispered around school But most every boy knew why You Xeedam didn’t get out would hear one fellow say ‘‘I can’t see how such parents as his could be so set against foot ball under the new rules” “Well” says another “he’s tried every way under the sun to get them to let him play He’s tried to get the old man out to a game He’s explained the new rules and argued hour after hour so he says but they simply won't be convinced” During the day Needam found |