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Show REAL GRID STARS LIKE TO PLAY NEW GAME i nv AUBREY dkvtm; All-America i o j 1 . Captain Iowa i2i "Big 1 n" ( Ihamploiu A genuine liking for football is a' most necessary quality If a plnyer hopes to bo u star. True, some football players reach stardom who aro not. crazy about the strenuoun game. Unusual natural ability makes It possible. However, such players would be of far greater value to their team If they really liked the sport, With tin liking for tho gamo goes tho determination or will to do. Some will cull it nerve, others will use the trifle vulgai yet very appropriate word, guts." MUST LIKE THE ; IMJE. Suci'tv.a in oliegu fuotbull rests upon tho sumo broad foundation as does success in any other line of endeavor. en-deavor. If a man does not enjoy pljfc .ng football for Its own sake and la not possessed of the will power to perfect himself In the game to the very limit of his capacity to do fio.' he can no more expect to reap jthOj rewards of a successful football! career than he could expect to be successful in any other line of wor! in which he might engage ln a halfhearted half-hearted manner. In other words, he must be willing to pay the prl' 0, Finally, to sum it nil up in ,-inswer i to the question, "Why hlrh school stara do not make good In college." we may say that some never were stars, while other real stars lose their athletic ability before they get to college, either because they were burned out" In hi:,-h sch l by too much work, or because they arc Jut aturally athletic in th' ir teens and "old" men In their twenties. GLRLS AND DA 1 1 S Still oth'.T high school stars fail in college because the diversified life of college causes them to scatter their fttti ntlon and energies upon so many and varied interests. Not the least of these varied Interests Inter-ests are girls and "dates." As a result the classrooniand the football field are equally neglected, and th" erstwhile high school star becomes a mediocre man on the last string of tho squad. In brief, granting that the high school star has the potentialities requisite for him to make the var-sity, var-sity, ho must devote his undivided attention to a two-port curriculum of studies and football,- nt lent during dur-ing the football season, if he would: continue his high school su'.cc-ss in; football on through his college carnnr. " n |