Show What Our Readers Say April 1962 Dear Would yoji please print this poem by Edgar The Coach Who loses the important game The Who has to shoulder all the The Who to teach the boys to play is And yet if one of them is And fails to score is promptly fired The character is asked to The With customers to keep the The Who plans old and And tells the youngsters what to But if they can't is The Who is by thousands second-guessed The Is jeered for plays lie thought were Who has my deepest Who is it I'd not care to be Regardless of his The We wish to express our thanks to both coaches for the time they have spent for all the young people in our Our thanks especially for the opportunities they have provided our boy in Kiwanis Little League baseball and the swimming Burr and Jean Elredge Utah April 1962 Dear Would you please print the following in your next The people of Roosevelt ought to be real proud of themselves for the events that have taken place the last couple of weeks-getting our two Haynie and fired from their jobs at Union High When are we going to learn that winning isn't Doesn't sportsmanship and character building have anything to do with or don't we know what sportsmanship and character We certainly haven't displayed any forcing them to There seems to be a set If we don't have a state championship team every it's but the It wasn't too many years ago to be thai Union won the State Class championship in If my memory serves we sang the praises of Glen Allred who was coach at that but just a few short and he was given the ax and forced to resign his coaching because he didn't win consistently enough for some Now the same thing is happening to Haynie and It appears that we don't let our teachers go because they arc poor but because we think they arc poor Our chief concern seems to be not in what the learn but whether or not they win their ball And if they don't it's not their but the Where is this thing going to Pretty soon there won't be a college graduate in Physical I will want to come to Union to because If they don't have a winning they won't be around next year to tell about iU Maybe we ought to appoint some of our bleacher coaches to take over for a year and really show us what they can do for our I don't think people realize how time these coaches put into their jobs to develop our boys In baseball and A lot of it j was after school hours and on and all we saw were the actual games As far as Coach Benson is I don't think we could have found a person who devoted as much time to making things better for our younger boys than the program he has carried in his summer sports program for the He spent many long hours with the not only teaching them the but in making our Little League Ball Park a I I live across the street from and I saw Ken over there early in the morning and late at night getting things in shape for them to play and also for the Little League Tournament held here last I have also heard from different sources that he wasn't given any but was told that it couldn't be but he went ahead and did it So this is what we have to offer anyone who comes to Roosevelt to take a job of Is this the of a community we are proud of to call If I think we ought to stop and look at our actions of the past weeks and think twice the next Keith Todd |