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Show NICE BALANCE IN ATHLETICS The trend of modern education to k'ep those who need help most--shows itself In athletics as well as it does along other lines Hereto - I fore the aim of the physical education educa-tion department, was io perfect a team of five, nine or eleven men who phying together, would bring victory vic-tory to the school Naturally the I strongest, physically, were chosen I Time, money and brains were spent In helping those who need the physical phys-ical development Icaat. The ninety and tune, who ought to have had such valuable training because they were weaklings, were found in the lde lines. In other words, the persons per-sons who. most needed attention were not given It. The aim at Hie present time of all physical education schools 1. to make every' man a participant In all I ncthiUes. particular attention being paid to the physically deficient As a result three or four hundred are letting the development the joj the at'ent'on that formerly wai the lot of the fo-tuuate few. The Ogden High school, keeping abreast of the times, is trying lo fol- I low that policy Lack of gymnasium facilities, however, hamper the rn"..-J rn"..-J tnent. Nevertheless classes for girl-' girl-' j In physical education are being held. Undoubtedly school that tak I part In athletics In Btale-wide com- petition, gets much advertisement, I therefrom. Too often, however, the Standard of a school is measured by i the prowess of Its athletes. Good schools do not necessarily produce good athletes: and bad schools, bad athletes Oftentimes the poorest Institutions In-stitutions have the best athletes, and vice versa. Too much attention to one line of work may produce physical phys-ical giants and mental dwarfs. An even balance is the thing to be de- sired At times unfavorable comment has been heaped upon Ogden High school because no winning team has been produced. And a comparison, not altogether a good one. has been made between such schools as Salt Lake high and Ogden high Recent-Iv Recent-Iv an account was given of the games of past years hetween the football teams of these two schools. Perhaps the account was correct, but no account was glveu of the twelve years or so that Ogden High had no j coach while Salt Lake had the best man In the Rocky Mountain country. coun-try. No account was given of the 1700 students that Salt. Lake high has to draw from, nor of the fact that coaches In Salt Lake are as numerous as football players. Fur- i thermore no accotint was given of the fact that Ogden high, defeated year I after year, was game enough to come ' hack for another try It lg easy j enough to be a sport, If victory comes your way but It takes a different ' kind of stuff to be a sport after years , of defeat Under existing conditions it Is no i particular honor to win a game 102 to 0 It is rather a reflection that j more games haven't been won In : that same score But In Ogden high school the time l is past when any one sport Is for the elect, and for them onlv The school has begun basketball; it expects ex-pects likewise to take part In every irame possible The students hope for victory, hut if they lose, they still expect to be I gentlemen The spirit that eery game i of importance io everybody. I that it Is everybody s concern Is abroad In defeat we expert k boost We expect to work hard when we play, but we do not ezpeel to play when we work We do not expect ex-pect to turn out professional athletes ath-letes but we do expect to develop I students School work is of prime I Importance athletics is a side issue. But whatever may be our fate, we still expect to play We are beginning in realize. In part at least, that we don t gel loo old to play w e get old because we don t play. The spirit and the enthusiasm thai are shown in the school prove that whatever is undertaken by the BtU- I dents whether we gain victory or gain defeat ihe necessary support will be there In niilier case we will boost and boost ami boost KEKK |