Kansas University Weekly.
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WILL T. REED, FOOT BALL MANAGER.
instantly upon it. The eye must be bright and keen, the head clear, the body free from deformity, the legs and arms strong and well padded with muscles, and above all a mental courage which knows not defeat—which laughs at pain. Such an one is not so liable to suffer pain, because he is not so often hurt, for the reason that he always moves to meet the play with his body parallel with the coming force; and if he can't stop it he will split it, and therefore not receive a side wrench. For example, take a piece of glass and with a hammer you can drive it into a board if you strike it on the end, while any one of the blows on the side would break it into a thousand pieces. This is all brought about by training, and when we read of some deplorable accident on the gridiron ninety-nine of each hundred cases will show it to have been someone who was physically or mentally unequal to the game. Would you want to set sail from New York to London in a row boat?
This brings us to the subject of training, and it is the key to all the foregoing. What makes the clear head, keen eye, mental courage, strong limb, prompt action, quick thought, and gives the endurance? It all depends upon training;
training not only on the field, but every hour of the day; it means close attention to every thing, careful study of your college work so that you may not only be an honor to the football field but an honor to yourself, to your parents at home, to your college, to your companions, and to the state which by its annual appropriations pays for the maintainence of such a noble institution. My experience is that it is always the young athlete who stands best in his studies that stands highest in usefulness on the field of sport. He must think over the practice of each day and ask himself where he did poorly and vow he will rectify his error; ask where he did well and say to himself "I am going to do that still better to-morrow," and think "That fellow playing opposite me thought he would tantalize me into scrapping with him, but I tell you I have no time to fight anyone unless he has the ball and is headed for my goal, then I will fight not only one man, but eleven, to stop him." Such soliloquies will help a man to improve his play each day. This with the signal quiz and an occasional lecture is about all a team needs in mental training except what they get on the field. Then comes the trainiug to a great many the most trying, (I might almost say cruel) and that which shows the man from the fellow; the breaking off from established habits such as smoking, drinking, chewing and staying out late at night to see friends or sweetheart. On these points I am absolute. I will not coach any man and expect to win universally, and allow him to break any one of the above rules, and a man who is heart and soul into football will
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