Show PERSONAL SYSTEM t CORNER By Richard Hill Wilkinson CHAPPELL was He JEFF was a burly You couldn't help liking But he was I was assistant coach that fall at Redfield and I had all I could do to keep Jeff in the rrt 3 c. Head Coach Charlie Judd was impatient about no place on this team for a guy who can't remember Charlie can't afford to take the If you and I are going to keep our Jobs we've got to chalk up a few scores after last year's the best halfback I've ever seen I make a mistake dropping our big hope for this Charlie consented to let Jeff play In the first three After the third he came stomping into my his face he he you got to say Your friend lost today's He lost it because he got his signals twisted in the last how about the first two I that same boy that turned defeat into victory for Two to one isn't It's better than any of those other lugs are said But when Charlie thought It over he He was still pretty Any kid who couldn't absorb a set of simple signals ought to have something done about I tried to do I got Jeff up to my room We went over and over the The next Saturday we played and beat them Or Jeff Chappell beat You m a lone was there to stop couldn't stop the The victory gave us a but behind it there was always that haunting fear that next Saturday or the next or the the kid would go haywire and start running in the wrong or Charlie and I held our breaths all of came around and NOVEMBER time for the all-Important Hubbard Hubbard was our traditional Beating them was all that was necessary to make the season Two days before the game Charlie came up to my we win he won't have to worry about being in He looked I knew what he was you don't let the kid play we won't have a I a bare h-pe of winning without Charlie scratched his I put him in there's always a chance I said proved You know as well as I that without Jeff Chappell we're Charlie wasn't You could see he was scared He wanted and I gave it to My confidence in the Md settled the thing in Charlie's He agreed to play Despite our record and the fact that we had Jeff Chappell the odds were on Hubbard had a clean Their victories had been won by big The first quarter and the second ended with no In the the Hubbard fullback snaked through our line and sprinted 30 yards for a They failed to kick the In the fourth the Hubbard left half came around right end on a trick Our whole backfield was All except Jeff Uncannily a lone was there to stop That gave us the We made three yards In three and instead of our gave Jeff Chappell the ball and Jeff made as pretty a run as you'd ever seen Cole kicked the extra A minute later the whistle After it was over I got Jeff up into my I about That trick play of Hubbard's was a How come it didn't fool He grinned After awhile I got the Jeff never did et the signals but he discovered system all his He'd watch the toes of the opposing If the play was going the majority of toes would point that Instinctively And the same applied to our It never failed Jeff said he'd heard something like that on the I I never told |