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Show Th captain ia a merrj soui. A happy .sort of roach He's not elected by th gang But chosen by the coach. He got the Job of leadership fn hi?, ability And n..t because h.- w a backed up by his fraternity. Greasy Neale picked off a hunk ol limelight ui the laiy world series but he's also lit the lantern of individuality individ-uality In football this fall by hooslm; the captain of his next rear's team Instead of permitting the players to elect bun. Coach Neale says that as long as ho holds the 1 r 1 1 ii irheel at little Mur-Hetta Mur-Hetta College (Ohloj the leaders of the elevens will get their jobs b appointment. ap-pointment. The appointing of football captains "in iu. iuc son soap Skids under fra-i fra-i ternltlea who would rather have a Phi I Beta Kappa or some other sort of "kappa" generaling the learn than a , captain who know s how football should i'e plaed. tohn Boblnson. the 130-pound back-Id back-Id star of Marietta, will . aptsln the I 19-1 eleven. Fraternity politics won't IV anything to do with tho wav he I runs the team on the f-ld This diversion taken by Coach Neale is something to think about. It listens list-ens like the gospel of inmon sense. Students at Cornell criticized Gil Doble for having a captalnless eleven elev-en this year, but GU managed to win a hajf dozen games, anyway. The practice of electing football iptalns by the other letter men of the team has been such a time-honored cuBtom that the departure from the precedent by Nealu and Dobl is rath' I er startling. The election of little Tom Davles at Pittsburg was a popular choice and It Is likely that If "Pop " Warner could have, the say ho d put his index finger on Tom's headgear. I The same is (rue in many other-' other-' ' I where th elective system is In ogue. Th players usually know who the coach would nominate for the Job before the east their ballots. If the judgment of a coach Isn't i w ho w ill best serve the ikm as uptaln he ought LaLI to lose his Job. H i , m It s a good thing thev don't let the sororlviles elect team captains. TheVd most likely pick out ibe handsome leader. B Except in cases like the one Doble Ll has been up against at Ithaca whero MM IM wise thing to have a field leader on the kLI team. iiH pl ol the gridiron , W I "PO nw makes it imperative for felH -a.h member of the eleven to know eery play Hnd in a sense be a leader |