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Show . , - . TEAMWORK WINS When Kipling penned is immortal lines' "It's the teamwork of every bloomin' soul," he wrote something that people will have occasion to quote as long as humanity struggles along to make this old world better and happier. : . ; , . , The football season has just ended, and the team with the greatest in- dividual player of the past year and of recent years has failed to win the championship. This great player is Harold "Red" Grange with the University Uni-versity of Illinois eleven. But fleet and able as he was on the gridiron, he was unable to give his team the coveted honor championship of the Big Ten. This honor .went to the University of Chicago eleven with a more complete football machine, without any such outstanding star. . A few weeks ago almost eighty thousand people from all parts of the Mid-west crowded into the stadium at Illinois largely to see "Red" Grange perform against the Michigan team. He came up to all expectations. In fact he did more scoring than it was thought possible for any individual football player to do alone. And the crowd went home saying "No team can beat Illinois and Grange." Then again he did the trick against Iowa, and at Chicago his work alone saved his team from defeat. 1 But the next week the great star was a little out of condition. The battering of game after game had been too much. He was no longer superman super-man Grange. He was worn dowij to the speed and ability of just an ordinary ord-inary football player. And his teammates who had been depending upon him all season became be-came panicky. They took a stinging defeat from Minnesota, a team that had made no record throughout the entire season. So it is with everything in this world with a community, a business, a government. Team work wins out in the long run. The one man town like the one man team will get a setback in time. The one mn business, " the one man government may go far along the way of achievement, but let something happen to that one man, and there is no organization to carry on the good work. Great rulers have appeared throughout history who have given their nations great administrations. But the death of these supermen has always al-ways plunged the nations they ruled into chaos. i It is well for us to remember that the combined strength of many hands ' and many minds working together for a common cause cannot be equalled 1 by the work of any single outstanding genius no matter how great his ability may be. , |
