Show r M Gp R CE JUST 4 w much training and hard 41 dri m g can the thc human system I stand jt it comes to a matter of lia G a human being to peak form training is one of the most subtle a ti of all the arts It is a job that calls for expert treatment treat treat- ment For e example I Iwas Iwas was talking about J r this with Col Bob coach Y t of the army team Colonel Neyland knows what condition condition condi condi- tion means as well Grantland Rice a a anyone Ive I've run across The point you have to watch he said is the human limit You cant can't afford to pass that point In my many years of coaching Ive I've seen squads brought up to 80 per percent percent cent efficiency when it came to blocking or tackling When we tried to lift this 80 per cent to 85 per cent by harder work and longer time on almost every occasion the squad would drop back to 75 per cent or even 70 per cent They were willing enough to give all they had but physical and mental fatigue would leave its poison and the extra work was worse than wasted It was harmful Football and Jf War ar arIf If this goes gocs for football it also 4 Jes aes for training needed in war A good many people knowing that war waris waris waris is a tougher game than football or any other game ever invented cant can't understand h why a soldier be worked from daybreak reveille io to a nightfall They cant can't see seeh h why an all and recreation is needed But those who know their business in the army and navy he the cracking point When anyone is packed with men menial mental ial tal and physical fatigue there must musi he jC resting spots as every gooc gooe trainer knows After that point h he hi cant can't absorb any further develop development anent ment in skill or condition for the time tIm b being ing This is why both the army anc navy tavy have been smart in getting s sc many physical conditioners conditioner win wh know what should be done Golf GoU for another example is not nota nota a killing game But a fatigued golf golfer er ter is rarely any good The message message mes meso sage that cor conies comes es from a tired brair io o tired nerves and muscles is always al always always ways badly blurred The Surest System The surest system is to start train trainIng Ing kids from 13 to 16 years of age They can be trained to walk from J l h to 12 miles a day As they get s a little older this can be lifted to 1 U If miles or or 20 miles We have bave toe toc many hundreds of thousands of boy boys from rom 13 to 16 who have known fat fai too little leg work At that age body contact should be light to be increased from year to year Someone was smart enough in oth 1 Germany and Japan to start graining draining these younger boys as far fart I back lack as s 10 years cars ago Standing before belore be be- I Ilore lore fore the Redskin Army-Redskin game in th the thc Los Angeles Coliseum a few weeks week ago go several of us from the top tower lower looked down on the Ol Olympic swimming swimming swim swim- ming stadium recalling Jap swimmers swim- swim mers from 14 to 16 years ears of age I winning Inning distant swimming events These youngsters had bad been start started cd at the age of nine or ten Some of them were among the Jap troops that swam to Hong Bong Kong I have mentioned before belore about the hundreds of thousands of ot German Ger- Ger man kids from 12 to 16 who were In m hard training all over Germany during the 1936 Olympic games Inthis In Inthis Inthis this respect both Germany and Japan knowing the inevitability of ofa ofa a a. war they were going to start made this youth training a national plan This youth training isn't a ma matter of t surmise but a matter of fact and of ot record I still recall an old Southern civil viI Civil war Jar poem to Little Giffen Giften of T Tennessee nn Part of it ran like this this this- I JL r t ot of and gangrene gangrene- nd he fourteen The ty Y Almos cry cry of any importance importance importance im im- started started is is game as a kid You never develop stars who start t fter Iter 25 or 30 Bob Jones began playing golf at athe athe atthe he the age of eight Jack Dempsey was street-fighting street at the age of 10 Babe nab Ruth was playing baseball II a at t 11 You never make the Big League starting darting some game after 20 The knack comes to younger minds and younger muscles muscles to to kids who came along to championships later laier on If II this is true in sport it must be betrue betrue betrue true in many phases of combat work in war war flying flying marching shooting swimming parachute jumping jumping any any part parl of the thc war games that calls for skill and stamina So far this has been overlooked in hi this country For the army or navy Id I'd much rather have a year old boy than a civilian beyond 30 or 35 The latter are game enough They will have Just as much courage But they cant can't have that unbeatable gift of ot youth youth youth-so so much more easily taught so much more elective when the showdown arrives |