Arizona republican., 1912-12-17

present conditioning the West Point eleven and has achieved results The condition of the men between the halves of the Army-Yale game was a fair sample of his work. It used to be the theory that the cadet life was about all the conditioning a man needed Yet in the old days it was no uncommon thing to find the cadet eleven without the services of a trainer exhausted and gasping for breath between the halves Against the Blue this year this sort of thing was conspicuous by it's absence l The players between the halves were almost as fresh as they were when the opening whistle sounded and they sat up and talked about the game what 1 they had done in their first half and ! what they would do in the second. Tuthill had simple test for the man l who thinks he is in condition for a fast 1 game of football. He suggests that the would be player run about half a
 mile and then try to whistle. It is in fallible. West Point had last sea son a better conditioned eleven than
 in many years, and the proof of the pudding already has been found in the eating.
 
 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. Of 1 ten a man who does not like the hard work of football is attracted by the gauds of the game-the uniform and
 the training table. He will do as lit tie work as possible consistent with r1Slf fNniy season. It is this sort of man that is given to magnifylng the slightest in jury Too often the coach cannot see through the sham, but the trainer is far more difficult to fool. It is no un- common thing to hear a trainer say of a player. "Oh. he is only foxing out of It." The good trainer will refuse to patch up the lazy man, preferring to send him to the hospital where he will be kept in bed and starved on milk toast. This is an excellent cure for laZinesS.
 There are players, too who, although always in the thick of the play in the practice scrimmage. are game shy" They play brilliant football when they are facing men they know. but seem to 1 have a deeply rooted fear of the strange teams These men will retire from game on the slightest preteXt It is the trainers duty to single them out 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 cour- age under fire.
 Winning teams and winning coaches lead to more victories. A trainer with
 winning record seems to be equally indispensable PrinCeton's rapid ad- vance in track and field athletics last | year was due, of course, to a large ex- | tent, to the excellent coaching of Keene Fitzpatrick, but Fitzpatrick had long record of successes behind him when he went to Princeton. and this. too, was a potent factor in the defeat of Yale in the annual game.
 A successful trainer cannot make a successful football team when the l coaching is poor, but he can and does | help nightly. Trainers watch their
 men in action so closely that they soon pick up an excellent knowledge of the game and many of them would make good coaches. Both Fitzpatrick and Murphy are excellent judges of football assistance. It sometimes happens that
 a game is lost through failure to heed the advice of the trainer, and it is the fashion nowadays to give him voice in the coaching council.