Arizona republican., 1912-12-17
By TOMMY CLARK.

II EROICS are out of fashion in foot
 ball these days The intelligent cC-opera tion between coaches and trainer. the demands for instant if not always long sustained efficiency under the new rules and the tendency toward a cleaner game have combined to put an end to the old time displays of what was called pluck and really was fool hardness When men are injured nowadays they are taken out of the game. and the player is encouraged To report the slightest hurt to coach and trainer to the end that the same may be promptly attended to in the hope that the player may be saved from q long siege in the hospital. One of the best coaches in the east tells his players before the practice, as well as before the game: When you are hurt l want you to quit and to come and tell me about it. You don't have to 3!mp and you don't have to groan, nor dc you have to be so badly hurt that rou fall down several times in the at tempt to get back into the lineup"
 Under the modern system the men who are close to football can see noth- ing that approaches pluck in playing the game 10 q llIlSIl W iletl lil6 pAdS CA Ao afflicted with a floating rib that may punch a hole in his lung at any min ute. Time was when the men who played CT uncomplainingly when they could hardly stand or see came in for more than their share of applause and the man who staggered about the field. only at last to reel back into the lineup. was appIauded from the stands and made as much of as the man who went through the game without injury and played his best c
 The injured man is a useless factor Tn the present day team work, and no first class eleven has any room for him. The time has gone by when man could wear an aluminium plate over his ribs or play while suffering agonies from an ulcerated tooth. as was the case with "BuCky" Vail of Pennsylvania when the Quakers de feated Princeton on Manhattan field. New York. years ago, causing an up Set in the football world.
 Players are no longer expected to emulate Morris Ely of Yale and So well. tLe Navy quarterback, who play ed in their big games with fractured ribs. Both of these men probably would have been taken out at once had there been any indication in their play that they were so seriously hurt.
 In these days the injured man walks unconcernedly to the side lines, where he finds coach and trainer waiting for A.m. and says simply My knee" My ankle" or My neck" His hurt is dressed at once. and he has a chance To rest and recuperate, for any trainer worthy the name has a horror of the university hospital. Too often when the man goes to the hospital he is i'm Ied-ately put to bed. is compelled to go on diet not calculated to maintain his strength and is kept there long aft CT the active trainer would have had him out on the field again in good shape.
 Little by little men like Mike Murphy of Pennsylvania Johnny Moakley of Cornell keene Fitzpatrick of Prince ton, "Fooch" Donovan at Harvard and Mack of Yale have edged their way into the football councils to the extent That their reports on the condition of players have been accepted as final There are men on the side lines a ev- cry football game these days. big or little who under the old regime would