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Show GRIDIRON CHAMPIONS ARt BORN, NOT MADE Player Must Be Blessed With Certain Natural Ability. Head Coach Jones of Yale Says Stars Are Men Who Intuitively Know What to Do Football Is Most Scientific Game. Tad Jones, head coach of, Yale's football eleven, has evolved one fact out of his years of football experience experi-ence : . "Footlv.U players that Is, the really great ones are born, not made. "A man muy have courage, speed and grit, and yet he will be only a mediocre football player, unless he Is blessed with a certain natural ability which might be celled football sense. "I have played with and against many men, and I have trained many others, but I have always noticed that the slars were the men who Intuitively Intuitive-ly knew what to do. "They are the men who race through a broken field for a touendown, male- 1 V f ' - y. i f I '""Mfk Tad Jonas. Ing their way according to no set formula, but only as Instinct directs them. "The star of the prep school Is generally gen-erally a star at college. "The sooner the boy begins to play football, the better chance he has of developing natural ability. A boy is never too young to learn at leust the rudiments of the game. A few knocks will only help him to stand tha Aaraer bumps later on In life. "Football Is the greatest game there is. It Is prohably (he most bctjntlEc game played today. "Some conches have a tendency to spread their formation all ovei? tha field, hoping that something lu kj may happen to penult them to score. "A team should win because It has a well balanced attack based on sound football, together with an adequate defense. de-fense. "A good running attack, with the use of tt few mass plays, should form the basis of any winning team." |
