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Show 1 r: 'i I ,;' s :J I ft I H r You cannot keep a good man down, That's what is oHen said. And when his chance presents itself 1 He stands out at th- head. For in'anee. in the ki diron Bpprl A man Fb of tnc mob And 1 hen he shines serenely as He fteis the coaching job All the great coaches den't come from th- ranks of the star players. In fact, a lot of the top notch men tors of today were Just ordinary vvhn they were playing the game. A great head doesn't necessarily accompany ac-company s great kicking toe The man who cau carry the ball through a broken field isn't essentially a teacher of stratev Some of the big coaches of todav lacked the necessary luster to make ' them shine when they were players. You nerer heard of Glen Warn'r doing do-ing anything wonderful when he was playing guard at Cornell. Bob Zuppke was a lowly "sub" in his Wisconsin football dayi r I Fielding; Yost was a very ordinarv ( player at Wesi Virginia and Lafayette. when he wore the molepklns. Alonzo Stagg was a better baseball pitcher on (he nine than an end on the eleven during his Yalp student da s Coach Roper never caused the head-' line setters any extra work until he' got into the coaching game. John Heisman was Just one of the 1 1 boys on the old Penn teams And even the fahious old coach at 'Mount Vernon was Just the ordinary jsort before George Washington's time. So you never can tell where ihe1 great Cpschea are going to come from. Like as not some poor hardworking fellow who. is having trouble making his college letter will blossom out as the greatest football strategist of tomorrow. to-morrow. Wonder what "Bo" ?.IcMdlin, George iipp. c?.p' Horween, Benny Boynton, Hoge" Workman, and some more of today's stars will be doing ten or fifteen fif-teen years from now ? They may be coaching some of the successful elevens then and again they may be locked up in some stuff office building Tar BWgJ from the goal posts, You never can tell. 1 00 |