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Show Co-ordination's the Thing Most Football Aspirants Lack, Yost Shows ro,xrn vnsr By B1EEV EVANS. There would be a great many more ! good football players If more men ; that try for varsity elevens had coordination. co-ordination. Many candidates for football teams know what they should do. but they cannot make thetr arms and legs do the things demanded of them. I Coach Yost of Michigan told us, ! while watching his squad practice, that he was trying to teach certain players co-ordination. "Their minds and limbs don't work together," explained the coach some: did. some didnt. At that particular moment the i various: players would start running lat an ung'.e. The coach would yoll "reverse. ' The players were supposed j to go in the opposite direction. Some . did it almost Instantly when the command was yelled; others heyit.ite.l before, turning Some hesitated longer than oth-r.. "Watch these boys for a fow minutes min-utes nnd you wdll see what I mean." ,' aid Yost . He watched and tho meaning was , apparent. It ias o struggle with some, to change the action of the body when the mind willed tho hang after the command was heard. EOTS OF WORK. Much of the preliminary m.r '. this varsity scjuad was occupied In jroing through exercises Invented for no other reason than to develop coordination. co-ordination. "Over horn I'll show you a tackle," said the coach "This boy ia big and strong and brighti He knows exactly ex-actly what a tackle should do and he can answer almost any question you ask him about tackle plav. but watch him!" At this particular moment the candidate's can-didate's team was on offense. The boy's hands rested on his knees, wh'.le the other tackles' hands were up. "Get your hands up or you'll get hurt," yelled Yost. ORDER REPEATED TWIOK Th ordr was twice repeated before be-fore the tackle's bands came up. Then they dropped aRaln. The order was repeated. Asraln they earne up but before the ball was snapped they were down airaln. A defensive lineman crashed into the tackle. His hands started up just before tho Impact; too late. The ball changed hands. The tackle, naturally, went on defense. Tho opposing quarterback called for a play against this tacklo's side of the line. Tho tackle noted the runner run-ner start ln his direction. He shifted shift-ed his feet In opposite directions, was knocked sideways before be could regain re-gain his balance, but managed to regain re-gain ids feel The runner was passing by. The tackle lifted nelthor hand to stop him. Suddenly he whirled. flung his body at the runner and managed to catch him by the ankles. "You see," remarked the Michigan ' coach, "he knows all the time Just I what he should do but lie lacks co-j ordination and he can't get his arms J anil legs to working ns fast as his; mind. It takes him too long to tele-graph tele-graph hl3 orders to the limbs If he 1 had co-ordination that boy would be an All-America tackle as sure as he lives. He has everything that he needs but good co-ordination." So, each day. the candidates that do not respond rapidly are put through a program of exercises carefully planned to develop co-ordination between be-tween mind and body. |