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pneumonia and other diseases early in life. Morally
also great injury is done by men who have played in
various sports under coaches whose sole objective

was to have winning teams... It is well known that
there are many coaches vrominent on the sporting

page of the newspapers whose ethics are so bad that
the better universities will not even schedule their
teams for games. I have always refused to allow my
yown sons to participate in sports where the coach was
/not competent in all of these requisites. Rotten and
debased athletics, in my opinion, are at the bottom
of many of our national evils. The boy who learns

in football that it is entirely proper to violate the
rules if one is not caught will almost inevitably
carry the same reasoning into the affairs of life.

On the other hand the boy who has learned self-control,
decency, and fair play on the football] field will
carry the same qualities into his later life. Bad

as the situation is in many colleges, it is much
worse when ttn high schools such evils are allowee

to affect the boy curing his formative years.

The wise varent, therefore, will determine

the character of the co2ch and the principal of the
school before allowing his son to participete. I sm
glad to say that in my om experience I have found no
difficulty in finding the right kind of coaches, and
that although I have met a number of crooked coaches
and crooked principals, the majority of high school
principals and coaches have heen decent, honorable men,

There are just enough of the other kind to make extreme
- care advisable.

In what athletics should your son particinate?
There are certain guiding principles here which will
assist you in solving the problem. In general it may
be said that outdoor sports take precedence over indoor;
that sports involving group participation are to be
preferred to those which provide for individual develop-
ment only; that games allowing for large numbers of
participants should be preferred to those allowing for
few; that games involving special facilities are to be
placed below those involving only slight equipment and
expense; and finally, that some preference should be
given to those sports which can be carried on in later
life.

Group games are vreferred because of their
social possibilities, since they involve adherence to
rules, co-operation with othersk subordination of