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Human emotions stir deeply in the fierce maelstrom of sportse For it
is here that our peoples play at war, Out of athletic competition come the
conjoined stimuli of exhaltation and‘depression and fierce rivalries, but in all,
much more of the pleasure than of the paine Someone has said that a thing to
possess heart interest must possess "the qualities of both a tear and a smile".

Varsity and high school athletes look to their ewm coach as their acad-
emic field general to lead them to victory. No man who is unable successfully
to interpret the art of living should ever aspire to a position as coaches For
the term coaching implies people to master difficultics, enotional as well as
practical ones. It is one thing to become proficient in the art of playing the
technical game and anether, but of far greater importance, to master the art of
getting along with fellow players and coaches and opponents both at home and on
foreign ceurts and fieldse

Before tense games a coach must came before earnest men. They will watch
his face for assurances of victory. Many times he must stand alone and fact to
face with certain and imminent defeat staring at him, long before he can meet
with them and instill hope. In infinitely lesser degree, like General Grant at
the siege of Vicksburg, a ceach will sometimes feel that.all hope is gone as he
keeps close counsel with himself and dares not reflect either to his players or
to his fellow coaches the despair that eneompasses hime

General Grant in his "Memoirs" has graphically described his fears and
dejections arising from the mcertainty of the capture of Vicksburg. "It cannot
be taken," he thought, and pondered through the days a nd months of the siegee
Finally, it came to him thus, "If we are discouraged in our pesition, what is the
Confederate state of mind, bottled up there with no chance of ogress?" Reason-
ing thus, after long vigils ef despair, Grant took courage and reflected it anew
to his mene They knew then that he could wine

So must suecessful coaches drive fear out of their players' hearts. They
must make the boys forget their epponent's powere They must develop an expect-
ant and fighting spirit which means building esprit de corps or team morales
This deminant challenge to win swells the surge of a conquest, and a team thus
imbued is wellenigh unstoppable, Inspiration multiplies power, and power coupled

with courage and fundamentals ‘relentlessly smashes through. The coach must
have faith in his men and in reciproeity the men have faith in their coach.

Throughout the grand theme of life there runs a faith in the ability of
human beings to achieve happiness if rightly directede In relations of the part
to the whole, this same faith obtains in all human keadership realms. The achieve=
ment of this-myth called happiness lies in the process of adjustments that we are ~
able to makee

Lafcadio Hearn, in his Japanese Letters, has said, "My cook wears a smile
ing, healthy, rather pleasing facee He is a good-looking young mane e e e One
day I looked through a little hole:in the shoji and saw him alonee The face was
not the same face. It was thin and drawn and showed queer lines worn by old
hardshipse » « I went in and the man was all changede « « « + Foun and happy againe
He wears the mask of happiness as an etiquette. "