The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-12-27
MORAL EFFEcr OF FooreAIl

we do at Yale is talk athletics" said
Walter Camp the other day. THAT is
not so. At this period of the year
you might wander over the campus
and visit the students in their rooms
all day, and you wouldn't hear foot.
ball OF any other topic of sport men.
toned. However, l for one at Yale
think there are good reasons for try.
ing TO succeed at what one undertakes,
and | don't know but what the sys-
tenn that has brought us a certain de-
gree of success, in football at any rate;
has resulted in our worrying less and
giving less thought to football than is
the case at some other institutions.
Who shall be captain and who shall be
head coach for next season are not
matters which are giving Yale men
any great concern, for they have come
to know that those questions are so
managed here that whatever is done
about them will be the result of a sys-
tenn that has been successful.
1--WE think success in football is
worth striving for, because it teaches
men that if they are to accomplish
what they set about to do they must
do so by work and submission to dis
cipline. That is a good lesson to teach
a man Furthermore, the moral tone
of college men has improved a great
deal in recent years, and in this the
successful athelete has done his share.
Drinking, dissipation, is not good
form for college men nowadays-time
was when not much was thought of
it. Take such men as Tad Jones, a
leader among his fellows and who
leads an upright life. Other students
initiate his habits, and such imitation,
unconscious, perhaps, does them a
world of good.
"The mar who goes in for athletics
soon finds that he must go according
to a schedule if he is to keep up and
make the most of his time. When the
moment comes for study he has no
time TO lean on window stills and talk
with his fellows. He must get right
down to his books, must apply himself
during his study hours. He quickly
learns that he must systematic his
hours for sport and study, and habits
of regularity and order soon come to
him.
Football appeals to the best people
That is evident when one sees the size
of the crowds and the people compos-
ing them. 1t is a game of strategy,
skill and brains, and it appeals to cul-
tured and intelligent people who ap-
preciate what qualities it represents.
In New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and other places where there is cul-
ture and refinement football is very
popular. 1t draws respectable, think
ing people and many of them.
another thing about football, it de-
mands courage to stick to your plans |
and not become hurried or democrat
lied when your plans go wrong tenn
porarily. There is the courageous de-
fence, for example. 1t may seem to
be wrong and to be giving way, and
i. requires courage at such a time to
stick to it and give it a chance to
prove itself. The temptation at such
times is strong to forsake your plan,
to try huTriedly to check the opponent
by some other method. Sometimes
your plans are wrong and you lose, but
if your opponent scores on you al
least you learn that you have planned
wrong, and besides you'll be scored on
still oftener if in a moment of panic
you do not stick to what you have.
are hurried into a mistrust of and
failure to hold to your plans. A sud
den wavering of that sort on the one
yard line will result more disastrously
than sticking to and having faith il
o iginal plans.
$50 far as learning the lesson from
one contest is concerned l have found
that that must begin at once. tt
doesn't do to wait to draw the conclu-
sions furnished by actual contest on
the field. The time to learn your les
sons so that you may profit by what
they teach is while you still have a
clear picture of the game. A week
after you'll find your recollections are
getting hazy. 1t won't be quite clear
in your mind whether a certain player
stood four feet or six feet away, and
you must know positively about these
points.
Il am a believer in the freshman
rule; it has been a good measure. but
in one way it has increased the diff
Guilty of developing varsity material.
The best school for developing varsity
material is the second team, with its