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Show Grid Captaincy Means Great Deal to Player We understand that to a football player the captaincy means a great, great deal. But we know that to ihe public it means nothing. Not 1 per cent of the people who attend foot ball games knows nor cares who cap tains the football team. The captain of a football team is supposed to be in command but it is the coach who looks after things. ! writes H. G. Salsinger, in the Detroit ! .News. The conch selects the lineup. I makes the substitutions and directs the plan of play. The coach tells the captain and the captain tells the boys who did not happen to hear the coach tell the captain. Then, when there is anything to say to the officials, the I captain says that. He generally does I It with the assistance of the players. |