Show R EIN or aa how muck much training and hard driving can the human system stand when it U comes to a matter 0 ot f lifting a human being to peak form training Is one ot of the mo most I 1 subtle of all the arts it is a job that calls T for expert treatment for en example ample I 1 was talking ab about 0 ut this wi with th col bob neyland head coach ot of the army team colonel neyland knows 0 ws what condition alo n m means e ans as well grantland rice ok anyone ive run across the point you have to watch k he said Is the human limit Y you ou cant afford to pasi pass that point in my many years of coaching ive seen squads brought up to 80 per cent efficiency when it came to blocking or tackling when we tried to lift this 80 per cent to 85 per cent by harder work and longer time on almost every occasion the squad would drop back to 75 per cent or seven even 70 par per cent they were willing bough en nough ugh to give all they had but physical pho physical and mental fatigue would leave its poison and the extra work was worse than wasted it was harmful football and war if this goes for tooth football all it also aloes S aes for training n needed e eded in war A good go od many people knowing that war Is a tougher game than football or at any other game ever invented cant understand why a soldier be worked from daybreak reveille 0 a nightfall they cant see why an je se creation Is needed but those who know their business in the army and navy understand the cracking point when anyone is packed wit with h men tal and physical fatigue there must lie be resting spots as every good tra rainer li ner knows after that point he hc cant absorb any further develop ment in skill or condition for the bing being this is why both the army and navy have been smart in getting sc many physical conditioners who know what should be done golf f for r another example Is not a killing game but IL a fatigued golfer Is rarely any good the message that comes from a tired brain id tired nerves and muscles Is al ways badly blurred the surest system the surest system is to start train tag ing kids from 13 to 18 16 years of age they can be trained to walk from 1 I J to I 1 12 2 miles a day As they get a little 0 older ider this can be lifted to IS 15 miles or 20 miles we have to too many hundreds 1 u of th thousands 0 hsands or of boys boyi from 1 13 3 t to 0 16 who have known tar far too little leg work at that a age ge hody body contact should be light to be increased from year to year some someone one was sma smart r t enough in alioth G germany e rm a ny and j japan apan to start I 1 raining these younger boys as far tack lack as 10 years ago standing ding before the army redskin game in the los X os angeles coliseum a few weeks ago several of us from the top tower looked down on the olympic swimming stadium recalling jap swimmers from 14 to IS 16 years of age ov winning inning distant swimming events these youngsters had been started atthe at the age of nine or ten some of I 1 them h e m were among the jap troops that swam to hong kong I 1 have mentioned before about th the e hundreds of thousands thou s ands of german man n kids from 12 to 16 who were in n he hard rd training all over germany during durin g the 1938 1936 olympic games in this respect both germany and japan knowing the inevitability of a war they were going to start made this youth training a national plan this youth training a matter of surmise but a matter of tact fact and of record I 1 still recall an old southern civil war poem to little giffee of tennessee part of it ran like this smitten with grapeshot grope shot and gangrene sixteenth battle and he fourteen burteen our teen the only way almost every athlete of any importance started his game as a kid you nev never e r develop stars who start liter 25 21 or 30 bob jones began playing golf at ile be age of eight jack dempsey was reet fighting at the age of 0 10 babe ruth kuth was playing baseball at 11 you never make the big league starting some game after 20 the knack comes to younger minds and younger muscles to kids who came along to championships later on if this Is true in sport it must be true in many phases of combat work la in war flying dying marching shooting swimming parachute jumping auy any part of the war games that calls tar for skill and stamina so far this has been overlooked in this country for thearty th earmy or navy id much rather have a 16 year old boy than a civilian beyond SO 30 or 35 the latter are game gam enough they will have just as much courage but they c cant nt have that unbeatable gift of yuth youth so much more easily taught so much more effective when the showdown down arrives |