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Show Nm that football coaching has boon dovated to thu imporlanco of a place In tho university curriculum, the gentle art of teaching the American youth how to play the game should rv-ault rv-ault In a hotter tpu of football. At many of tho larger universities this past summer, capable professors of :ho drop kick aud tho deadly tackle have instructed large dSaVjea In gridiron grid-iron knowbdgi:. The football profeb-aor profeb-aor takua his placo now With tho horn-rim horn-rim me l bi-wblskered sago of pullos-ophy. pullos-ophy. Pigskin tactiu aro getting deep thought everywhere. The game ha boconio a matheiu.illcal plaything. Books and treatise." on tho game are coming fast, and with all of this mental men-tal effort behind the sport, wonderful things maybe expected on the gr.dlron In th future By blueprint, by blackboard, black-board, by chart and by deep mental Croccsscs tho Btra'rgy of tho gridiron attlu will be worked out. One would naturally think that with all the thought that Is being given to the game, brawn haa at lost been shoved Into the background by brains. Tho elevens during tho present eca-non eca-non should bo ao all-fired smart that any teum of scholars should bo able to run rings around a team of boUsr-j makers. That Is the wav It should b but what Is going to happen on tho football foot-ball field when an eleven of excep-1 tlonally healthy youths yo at their ln-l telllgent adversaries eo hard that the hard bumps will knock all the rucnaJ nlroblenew right out from under thcK iheadgoars? They will undoubtedly win tho ganao Thn next ummt r when the classea In football' tactics again assemble to learn how to play the game on paper, they will havo newer and more iid problems to solve. It Is one thing to tacklo a grld- M.n problem on paper and anoihi r , thing to tacklo a ISO-pound halfback galb'pl: ; ib ab t lie fhzld a: r 10-aecond clip. KfTZPATRICR RES1C.N The ri slgnatlon of Tommy Fitzpat-rlck, Fitzpat-rlck, athletic coach at thu University of Utah for th past flvo and one-half one-half ;ars. whleh Is slated to take effect ef-fect at the close of tho school year In Juue of next year, came as a big sur-prlso sur-prlso to the sporting public, but not to those who know the Inside ropes on tho school on the hill. Conditions as far aa a coach are concernod have been anything but Ideal for some tlmo and tho resignation may result In on- tire co-opcratlon In the future which j has been backing for months and months at the school. Fltzpatrlck's I contemplated resignation ha been expected ex-pected for some time and the fact that It haa made Its appearance may result In stricter and better nuxns of handling hand-ling athletics at the "U" In the future.; When any coach Is "hand-cuffed" It Is mighty hard to get results. Perhaps some day the insido etory will bo retold re-told for the boneflt of the fan tho I boosters who make athletics possible, i . . . Fitzpatrlek has 4ade a remarkable record at the "IT" doeplte hla handicap? handi-cap? He rites several rvxsojla for' leailing a halt after nearly 6ix years of I faithful service. For his performances In the past In all lines of athletic endeavor en-deavor ho should especially be congratulated. con-gratulated. ltKsl lf ED RI Coach LMxon Kapple, athloLc director direc-tor at tho Ogden High school, gets results. Kappli was as nervous as any ono of his players on thu side lines at iingliam UM l iniU'i.i) timing wie final .minutes of that great b to 7 bat-tic. bat-tic. In tho opinion of tho writer lie appeared to be more nervous than hi-mea hi-mea who wero seated on the side line watching their team uphold their school's colors. Kapple, quiet, nervous, .salj nuthlng. Hli eyes and their directive di-rective movements told tho story. It was a story of confidence, a story that his man Just simply couldn't get whipped. Kow of the thousands In that grid crowd noticed this fatur-in fatur-in the Ogden mentor nevertheless. It was there and It brought home the bacon. . . Kapple was proud of bis men. So proud that he clamped the hands of each individual m mber of the team, thanked him personally for tbo "fight, fight, fight" which they displayed, and which Incidentally was the turning turn-ing point In tho big game. nr.n: QBi n mi d The writer picks the Tigers to win the Ogden division title and to romp homo a winner over the winners of the San Pete Scvlor-Utah county championship game. This accomplished accomp-lished the Tlgcra will march a notch toward the top of tho championship ladder, meeting either E.mt High or West High in tho finals at Salt Lake, late In November. Necktie tackling is all tho style In high school grid games. Evidently! some of tho players don't believe In handling their opponents rough Tack-j ling of thla aort. bow. r p, naay . is the downfall of a championship team, and It should bo remedied. Ogdcn'al flashy eleven has a lot to learn In this' department of the game, especially the) majority of the lino men. ... The Tigers meet tho Bear River City High school machine at I,orln ran park next Friday at 3:J0 o'clock. Weber will battle lavls on the Kaa- vllle lot at the aame hour. Box Elder I will be idle as far as a league contest I is concerned 1 |
