Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-12
HEROES HAVE NO PLACE
IN MODERN FOOTBALL GAME

waiting for him, and says simply,
MY knee" MY ankle or "My neck. "
His hurt is dressed at once, and he
has 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 tine
hospital he is Immediately put to bed,
is compelled to go on a diet not cal
'culated to maintain his strength and
| is kept there long after the active
! trainer would have had him out on
| the field again in good shape.
Trainers Word Final.
| Little by little men like Mike Muir
| ply of Pennsylvania, Johnny Moak-
ley of Cornell, Keene Fitzpatrick of
| Princeton, 'Pooch" Donovan at ,Har
ward 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 ae-
| cepted as final. There are men on
| the side lines at every football game
| these days, big or little, who under
the old regime would have been on
the field and in every scrimmage. The
| trainers are masters of the art of first
aid to the injured, and they will pull
| man out of the game, no matter
what the score or how great the ap-
parent need of his presence, and it
| is an intelligent coach who leaves this
T matter to the expert who has made
an exhaustive. study OF the condition
! of the men and often knows more of
their temperaments than the coach
! himself
Time was when the trainers chief
| function was to bandage injured men
| and send them back into the game
while the play was under way or to
devise intricate and complicated pro-
tectiVe armor specially designed to
! cover a weak spot. Nowadays the
| trainer sends even the whole player
into the game we'll protected by eX
pert bandanging, and both trainer
and coach insist upon properly placed
padding that usually has to pass in
| spection. In the nineties a man sup
ervised his own bandaging and his
own padding, too often with unfortun-
| ate results. The injury: to FELTON,,
| the tall end and left footed kicker
of the Harvard eleven last season is
a case in point. In some way the big
| Crimson punter passed muster with
| a badly arranged and insufficient hip
pad and sustained an injury that kept
| him out of the Princeton game. -.
1t is this matter of protective band
| aging that does not include the hea-
| Wy armOr OF five years ago that makes
| the work of the football trainer far
more difficult than that of the man
| who has to look after the league base
ball players.
+ The trainer is often better able to
| find the 'Quitters" or lazy men in the
squad than the coach. The player is
apt to be less on his guard when he
| is being rubbed down and bandaged.
Often man who does not like the
hard work of football is attracted bv
| the gauds of, the game-the uniforsI
| and the training table. He will do
as little work as possible consistent
with remaining on the squad through
| the season: 1t is this sort Of man
that is given to magnifyfng the slight
| est injury. Too often the coach can
not see through the sham, hut the
! trainer is far more difficult to fool. 1t
| is no uncommon thing to hear train
! er say of a player, ooh, he is only
| foHing out of it," The good trainer
will refuse to patch up the lazy man,
| preferring to send him to the hospi
| tai, where he will be kept in bed and
! starved on milk toast. This is an
excellent cure for la2iness.
| Some Shutters.
There are players. too. who. al
though always in the thick of the
! play in the practice scrimmage, are
| game shy" They play brilliant foot
{ ball when they are facing men they
know, but seem to have a deeply root
| ed fear of the strange teams. These
men will retire from n game on the
slightest preteXt. 1t is the trainers
| duty to single the mOut and report
to the coaches. The next process is
to send the men to the third or fourth
eleven in the hope of shaming him
into regaining his courage under fire.
Winning teams and winning coach
PS lead TO more Victories. 4 trainer
with a winning records seems to be
equally Indispensable. PrincetOn'S "a
pid advance in track and field athlN-
tics last year was due. OF course, to
n large extent. TO the excellent coach |
ing Of Keene Fitzpatrick. hut FitZpat /
rick had a long record of successes
behind him when he went to Priuce-
ton. and this. too. was a potent fac
tor in the defeat of Yale in the an
nual game.