Allen:

Chambers:

Allen:

Naisnith:

Chambers:

Allen:

Naisnith:

Allen:

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side of an army of users of alcohol. I asked Alonzo Stagg, the former
erand old man of the Midway, not long ago how he kept in such trim that he
was coaching football four years after his retiring age of 70. One of the
main things was that he had never indulged in any form of alcohol.

Thank you, gentlemen, but thus far we have been having youth look at al-
cohol during the whole discussion. Let us have a look at his play side.
The love for »lay is natural, the love for drink is an acquired blight.

Yes, Allen, but before we leave the first subject, let us summarize the

effects of the drink habit. You can without fear of contradiction make

athree noint indictment, as follows:

I - Aleohol very greatly lessens the efficiency in the reaction time.

II - Alcohol sreatly lessens the force of inhibition.

III - Aleohol lessens the accuracy of judsment. 411 transport nlanes have
two pilots and two controls should one pilot fall ill. We have but
one brain, one control and one pilot.

We will all agree that you have been most fair, Dr. Chambers. Dr. Naismith
I am wondering if you think the boy considers thie pronosition from a morel
or an efficiency standpoint.

I am of the opinion that every boy wants to be a champion and he does not
want to harm his body in any way. When a boy denies himself pastries and
an oversupply of sweets to play on a team with a chance to win a champion-
ship, then you ean bet that he is thinking of the efficiency angle. How-
ever he knows that he is — the right thing when he is training and this
raises his morale.

Then you think that the boy is such a selfish individual that it gives him
such joy to win ané pain to lose, that he will train consistently so that

-he may be rewarded by winning the chempionship.

Exactly, Dr. Chambers. Athletics is a bri€le that leads this fractious
human broncho through the pnlastic years of his formative existence and
stresses the inhibitions so necessary to his vhysical and moral growth.

No real champion athlete ever celebrates a victory by becoming intoxicatec.
Many pseudo-Tarzans of the mezzanine dance floor endeavor to celebrate
their team's victory in this mnner, but the boys who played the game

are tired ané happy in their efforts, and generally find their fun from
another angle. But just the same, the srort is blamed for the antics of
this lunatic fringe who generally are unable to nlay the game or act de-
cently.

You don't mean to say, Dr. Allen, that all of the boys who play on athlet-
ic teams train as they should, do you?

I am glad that you brought that un. The Kansas State Hish School Athletic
Association has a requirement in their by-laws that makes any athlete in-
eligible for athletic competition who uses tobacco. I know and you do,
too, that many boys cheat on this score, but think of the thousands of
high school boys in this state that do follow this rule.

Chambers--After all, your boy is ina vretty high crade group of boys with ideals,

if they take their training 2s seriously as the high school association
requires. I imagine many mothers woult take a chance on a broken bone by
her son if he went straicht rather than to have a chance of a broken