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A team never wins a game ever in their experience. ‘The opponents
lose the game by their mistakes. We call them errors in baseball, we call
them fouls in basketball and track, and we oall them penalties in football.
But they are all mistakes unier different ues.

The coach teaches fundamentals. In basketball the boy is taught
how to pivot, how to pass, how to dribble, how to shoot a goal, and so forth.
The instinct of play is one of the dominant reactions in the humen animal. :
Therefore, the boy will go through endless hours of grueling fundamental
training that is not fum, but the boy play for the reward - the possible
chanee of victory. He will harness himself with obstacles so that he may
achieve success.

“fhe stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the
head of the corner." Years ago the educator said that athletics were only
good for the surplus energy of youth. To ou pioneer forefathers, a fellow
who participated in athletios was an idler, a no-good fellow, but today if
the proper objectives are held before youth you can lead this young bronco
through the formative years of life with an athletic halter that should insure

him a strong body, a courageous spirit and a fighting heart. He will learn

 

to take defeat and disappointment, not in an easy, happy mumer, beoause no
one likes to lose, bub water the good code of sportemmehip. He will extend
his hand to his victor and say, Congratulations, sir, knowing full well that
life is a bettle, and promising his adversary that he will fight just as hard
or a little harder at the next opportunity for combat.

| So education has incorporated the constructive values of competitive
athletics for ow growing boy. The educator did not discover this because
inherently in the boy's breast was a great desire for conquest. But the
educator has failed to find something that will grip and hold the girl end
make her sey no a thousand times to temptation. ‘The educator still has a job