Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-12-25
Boxing Football Racing

II may say, on the ether hand,
that II is very doubtful IL the reyerse
Is true, though this is only probes
NAUTICAL. ! believe, however, that
men like Jeffries were cut nut for
champions and Mere stars am 7ng
champions in the line wh.cn they
undertook because they had i great.
er share OF the qualities tAat were
necessary to make football player.
boxer or wrestler. and that had Jef-
fries chosen football instead of box.
Ing those same qualities would have
made him star among stars en- the
college gridiron.
You may ask, then. why don
wrestler make a god boxer,Or vice
versa? The differea.. Is that q
certain build Is peculiarly advan.
, tageous to each OF the,ss games aud
other things being equal this adj
vantage will determine the winner.
But this is not true Of football. for
any man who Ia built for boxing or
wrestling has not anything that win
work to his disadvantage in foot
ball. OF football men some Will
be better built for boxing or wrest-
ling and vice versa, while of II box-
ers and wrestlers every one Ii quite
I likely built well enough for foot.
ball.
The whole thing Is a question OF
, the allotted share Of the qualities
mentioned above and the knowledxo
OF the game, and the star Is the man
who weighs down the balance IN
tina, scale.
Another thing which il generally
overlooked by football players ana
coaches is the abilities In other lines
OF the men under their training. III
remember quite well in my own ex-
parience that the men who could
box or wrestle the bes. found that
ability a great advantage In foot
pail and were not infrequently the
stars OF the team. Not that anything
but clean football would be resorted
to. though good wrestlers, other
things being equal. make far the
, best men.
AS examples Of the fact recall
DR.. Wylie G. Woodruff. perhaps tho
greatest guard that ever played on
the University Of Pennsylvania. VA
an excellent wrestler and would
likely have been a champion HAD he
followed that profession exclusively.
The Poe boys, than whom Princeton
never had greater ends, were wrest.
lers OF ability, and | know from 81.
perience that their wrestling made
their tackles 70 much like the hunt
er's trap that never saw man rs
around the end on which one OF them
played when he had any reasonable
support.
Little Pratt Of Brown Universe
ty. who was the best quarter whom
! have ever seen play football In Ill
my experience. was wrestler Of re-
markable ability. Tom Shevlin war
probably az great an end Is Yale
ever turned out and Corbett 10 said
to have considered him a phenomin-
al boxer for an amateur. Oliver
Cults. one Of Harvards best. 10
known to be an excellent boxer. Dan
Pulien. who has this year been ell
ected captain Of our great military
acadamy. has been winning honors
In boxing at West Point.
In my own experience In pro-
fessional football l have been paid
as much as $500 for single game,
! have played with such men as the
great Reinhart. Bemis Pierce and the
Warner boys and drew a thirdlarger
salary. believe, too, that my mod
! est ability In wrestling and boxing
was responsible for this & nelly and
good fortune. There Is no end to
the prominent examples that could
mention to prove that boxers and
| wrestlers could not only become good
football players, but as a matter OF
fact and experience. they generally
make the very best.
III you could imagine the follow
Ing men in their prime all at the
same time. I should like to coach
them myself in football a sonable
time and wager every cent Of my
| modest fortune that they could beat
Chicago. Harvard and Yale all in the
same afternoon and never use \
, substitute.
Il would line them up like this
Center. JefYries 215 pounds:
guards. Hall Adali. 800 and Hack
enschmidt, 220; tackels, Tom Jenk-
ms. 215. and Gotch 212: ends, Tom
my Burns. 1855, and Fred Beel, ITS:
halfbacks, Dan Mcleod. 175, and
Farmer Burns. 176: quarterback J.
I j. Corbett. 200 and play fullback
myself at 215, II YOU will pardon me
for putting myself in class with such
| renowned men as these
The average weight of this team
; Is 20S pounds in the best condition.
We all know that they have the
qualities above mentioned in a gem