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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, July 19, 1968
Wallace on sports
Football's future look
It might be time to take a look at where professional, college and high school football is going.
Football, fortunately or otherwise, is a sport where specialization is a great advantage, especially in training. There, the player can concentrate on his own job. However, there is such a thing as going too far.
I suppose that in pro football, specialization is the best way. Perfection is easier to acquire if the team is made up of the very "cream of the crop." Perfection is what calls the public's attention to the stadium or TV set when two evenly-matched teams meet in a contest where a single person's unique ability may make the difference.
Teams, mostly professional but not a few college and high school, are searching and recruiting for kickers, punt and kick-off return men, field goal blockers and even quarterbacks who have a distinct and probably single talent.
After all, many games have been won by the grace of an excellent kicker's field goal.
Even in pro football, however.
there is a danger of over-specialization. The prices that rookies are commanding today, not to mention the veterans now that the threatened strike has been resolved, will soon be eating up the profits in football.
A basketball team can support a couple of $100,000 a year players. Can football support top backs, ends, kickers, linemen and special runners at the same prices?
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College is also becoming a bit of a problem. For a long time
there has been dissatisfaction with the scholarships that many colleges award for athletics, and much of this controversy can be attributed to the growing specialization.
Coaches no longer want a good all-around player. When they scout a high school player, they rarely look for talents other than those which he currently is employing. This may seem normal, a simple policy of looking for the out-and-out best, but it can end many a promising career.
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