The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-07
ECkfRSALL TELLS OF
FOOTBALL DON'TS
Clever Little Chicago Player
Discusses important Points
of the Game.

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-Walter H. Eek
ersall, who has been in the sporting
limelight for several weeks. tells the
following "don'ts" for football players:
Il am a football player because
like the game and not because want
to see my picture in the papers," said
the quarterback. Il crave the few
inches the training may add to my
chest expansion and the endurance 1t
may give my muscles. That's reason
enough for playing.
But the training itself is a hard
thing" he added. TT is both hard in
what we have to do and what we have
not to do. Do you know what a foot.
ball player has to give up? If he is a
smoker he must quit. If he likes a
glass of beer he must swear off. If he
is a society light and ball room figure
he must reform. If he likes the theater
he must forget it until after Thanks
giving day.
But most of all must he curb his
appetite or rather regulate it, casting
aside all that long list of dainty eata-
bles, which make up the greater part
of the bill of fare Of the average young
fellow. There ought to be some glory
or pleasure or something of value to
compensate for all these things foot
ball player is forced to forego.
THE reason a player must give up
all these things is that he must be as
regular as clock work in his habits. He
must retire and arise at set hours. He
must do just so much hard training on
the field. He must have just so much
sleep. He cannot waste his energy by
running around or by taxing his stom-
ach. Smoking wrecks mans wind
Drinking destroys his reserve strength.
Late hours at a theater or dance or
fraternity gathering takes the ginger
out of him. There must be discipline
everywhere and all the time.
every player must listen to the or
ders of his coach. If the coach tells
him to butt an express train off the
track he ought to try it, for it can al
most always be taken for granted that
the coach knows what Is best for his
men. Football players know this.
Many men who fail to make the team
fail because they do not do adjust
all and no more-that the coach tells
them to do.
A Monotonous Routine.
1.-THE football mans day, as matter
Of fact, is a monotonous routine In
my own case, rise every morning at
o'clock. Then comes a cold shower
bath. At o'clock 1 am at the training
table for breakfast. This breakfast
consists Of fruit, oatmeal, toast, eggs
and milk We must abstain from cof-
fee as religiously as from cigarettes,
although do not believe coffee hurts
me at all.
After breakfast 1 must attend lee
lures. but what time do not spend in
the lecture room spend in the open
air, lounging about and not exercising
at all. Dinner, the heavy meal of the
day, comes at 1890 o'clock. This meal
consists of very rare meat, potatoes,
bread and butter, fruit and milk and
nothing more.
"The afternoon is the active part Of
the day. 1 lounge around my room
from dinner time until half past 8
o'clock, then go to the football field.
Then for two hours comes the hardest
kind of work in every branch of foot
ball. After the practice I take a bath
and hurry to supper at o'clock. The
bill of fare at supper is Identical with
that Of dinner, except that do not eat
so heavily.
cat half-past begin studying and
keep this up until o'clock. One of the
trainers helpers comes to my room at
that time and gives me an alcohol rub.
After he goes I lie around the room un-
til 10 o'clock, at which time go to bed.
"Al through the season, from the
November, keep up this routine. I'm
til one undergoes the vigorous training
he can never appreciate its value. In
myself I can plainly see the improve
ment in my strength and general phys
ical condition from the time I get into
football toys in September until the
last great clash comes at the close Of
the season. Sometimes I can tell that
I am failing, but the coach generally
sees that before l do, and that means
that am told to slow down on my
work for day or two.
Builds Up the Man.
'The purpose of football training is
to build a man up gradually, keeping
up the improvement all through the
season. Many men reach the acme of
condition early, but from the very ma
ture of the training this condition is
hard to prolong. Overtraining there
fore often spells slump for team A
players condition Is his greatest prize,
and he must allow no infraction of
training rules that will make him of
less value to the team. cigar might
mean the loss of big game; the loss
of a single nights sleep by one of the
dependable men might mean the loss of
the championship. 1t is easy to see,
therefore, why football players are
Wiling TO give UP all Inat is harmful to
them But, further than that, they
are expected to give up, too, those
things that are useless to them without
being particularly harmful.
when student appears as candi-
date for a football team he should re-
member these things:
''That the coach's word is law and
gospel.
"That the player knows less about
his needs than his trainers.
''That hard work, regularly and will
ing sacrifices are the three gridiron yir-
tues,
"That condition counts for more than
pounds of flesh, and that condition is a
prize that is won only by those who
labor.
"That victory is worth more than all
that a player gives up, and that there
is only one time to play football while
there is much time coming for dances
and the theater, for smoking and stay
ing up late, and for thinking of some
thing other than end runs and line
bucks"
HARVARD FILES FORMAL PROTEST.
Crimson objects, but Pennsylvania VIII
Play Smith and ZieeIer.