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Show Wm,'- TIMELY HINTS TO sm THE FOOTBALL PLAYER c MS In the N'ovombor issuo of the Am ISf erlcan Magazltio appears an Intorost- Mi?- lngartlc!o of Qllmour Doblo, a foot- !& uaU' coach who has novcr been ilo- yL featci. In thq 'following extract Mr. wfci Doblo commcndi on football players: ilfc " football player, abovo every- B5 thing else, wants to be normal ilur- lip lng tlio days of practice. Let him Kji liuto good, wnolcsomo, home cooked K food and his own homo bod. Let him I bo. with his own family, If he can 1. be and then you wl'l hao him In tWirv bo ,,cst training quartora on earth. jP Lot him ltvo In tho environment that fig?, lie Is accustomed to. He Is better B. with bis mother than with a trainer Hpfc and, In fact, hta mother Id tho bost jBfP trainer In tho world. It ho Is no gr customed to jilo and likes plo and tm?. ' plo agrees with iilin, let him eat Ek plo. And that also goes for pork. CTtl If a player Is accustomed to smoke jf a pipe of tobacco between tho dinner Etc. hour and tho study hour, let him PJK smoko. Whisky? No. Whisky Is yS merely an appendix. It can't possl- RU' bly do any good and, besides, college ftk,' boys, iih a rule, aro not accustomed IIjS to whisky, UK "I hao figured out and proved to ill'' my own satisfaction, ho continued, fW that If I can get the mothers to look wk after my players, Just as thoy have Hag. . looked after them from tho days they WW vera bom, I shall never need to wor- mm ry about the physical condition of WW' tho team. Tint, mind you, a perfect RJL physical condition of tho body, with- f. out tho proper condition of tho mind, H K renders tho perfect condition of tho H body practically useless, H . "I want my playors during tho H L' days of practlco to be good, healthy, Mff normal American boys, but on tho SOL day of tho gamo thoy tnuBt ho some- P' thing dlfTercnt. On tho day of tho l gamo thoy must look uppn tho col- Km logo as a patriot looks upon tho BaT flag during tho iorlod of his nation's Hi peril. Tho coltego must stand for HP something worth while and on the It day of tho gamo It must stand for Kir the most precious thing In tho world.' |