The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-10-16

/ 4 cnancei nut the sporting Dublic
that is the real supporter of the game
demands good bouts and it is the one
who will say whether Mr.. Negro must
step down and out; and if that is to
be the case, we are thinking that he
has a long lease of life as a fighter in
the pugilistic arena 1t is hoped that
there will soon appear another Ne
gro champion lightweight
Football above all other sports is
really a science and stands out as the
most scientific sport now before the
American public. True, baseball, ten
mis-, golf and many others have their
share OF admirers, but when it comes
to football the others pale into insig-
nificance. :, No game to-day has as
many different parts, as many plays.
and as many different styles of play
as football 1t takes a man with more
than the average amount of nerve to
play the game. No matter how pro-
ficient he may, be in other things,
when that nerve, or, rather, grit is not
there he is turned away by the Coach
and PRONOUNCED mot good enough"
Many good man is turned away
because he has not that element of
nerve necessary to face the many diff
ficult tasks nut before him. You can
always develop player when he has
the grit ndsendurance, but when that
is lacking you cannot use the man. no
matter whatihis other good points may
be. Speed is also factor in the new
game. Now, take a man with speed
and little weight, plenty of grit and
he is harder foe than heavy one.
We have had an example of that right
here in Nashville. Take man of AL
lison's build: he was small, very light,
weighing scarcely more than one hun
dred and fifty pounds, yet he was
given a position over men much
heavier than he, who seemed to be
good men. But the Coach saw fit to
give the position to the man with
speed, grit and endurance. Take the
case Of Marques of Fisk and you
have the same thing demonstrated
small man, fast, gritty and always dan
gerous, even at the last moment, apt
to tear away and by long run snatch
victory out Of defeat Time and again
this thing has been done and it only
goes to show that the man with the
endurance is the one to-be desired and
who is the most dangerous at all
times.
Then there is experience which is
also great factor and without it you
have no team work, for new man is
always narSsAs and especially So when.
against strong team. Next comes
the natural ability: one must have this
and when you find it in a man, along
with the other strong points, you have
star of the first magnitude. OF
course, they are not found every day.
but no city has been more fortunate
than Nashville. She has seen some of
the best football players ever devel-
oped and whenever they leave these
institutions and go to others they have
no trouble making the team. 1t seems
that they get the foundation work
right and the structure they build is
always reliable and beautiful.
There are but few cases where men
have left these schools and gone to
others where they have not made good.
You often find on team several stars,
but no team work; this goes to say
that each man has a duty to perform
in every play and when one of them
fails to do his part the formation is
spoiled and the play is lost Each
man is only part of the machine and
when any one Of them fails, the ma
chine has some lost motion and is
not running smooth But when you
find eleven men, each doing his part
at the right time and right place, then
you have team work, and that team
will always be a hard one to beat.
Then you have that college spirit and
that above all things is the most dan
gerous. Often a team goes on the
field outweighed and really facing a
better team, but they will have so
much of that college spirit that they
are always fighting hard and the OPP
ponent must always be on the alert,
for at any moment they MAJ rise up
and. amid the cheers of the loyal stu
dent body, take away the victory when
it seemed that defeat was their lot.
The teams of Nashville have lost
most of their old stars. but we are
hoping that the coming season will
find new men in the field to take the
mantle and wear it with all the dig
nifty of the men who have gone out to
battle with the problem of life The
Globe wishes them success, and may
they be as brilliant in their life's