The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-17
Veteran College Stars
Asked to Aid in War Work
"Big Bill" Edwards Tells Of Important Work TO Be Done
Abroad by College bIetes Who Are Be-
yond Military Ago

A team that reads like one N Walter
Csmpis All. American football selections
q fifteen of twenty years ago has hr,n
natksfod by the Y NJ &. A. in tackle
- OF the biggest problems The war Do.
nartment must solve N the United h'hinf
y 10 DO her part 10 achieve viclof1 iei
III allies w the blg game over ihri,
Prominent on the roster OF THIS team
vkioh c.lLs itself the college cOmmliir,
- recruiting athletic directors, are VII
0ha n. tBlf BID Edwards and Wali,f
G. (Bummyl Booth, Of Princeton. y y
(nF1nk) Thorne, OF Yale; Jackson J.,
6eynolds. OF Leland Stanford. Perry ID
.ISafford and Alden n Thurston, " fhi =.
vArd; Philip h Brett OF Rutgers Ioh,Ll Z
Q. nm OF Pennsylvania. and George "
Walker Of Bowdoin.
fAs presence Of y. X Hall Of Dart
msuth, insures satisfaction IN tho rules
1epartment. No better officials could De-
Nk1alped than W. H. kangfOrdi ~ Iilh-
nv, and Walter r. Okeson Of Dchlgh
fhis committee has started country
Vide campaign for the Recruiting. Of col
~ sihlet.s who Won isms H. ~ ,ns s,So55 "S5
military age, HUNDREDS Of men are need
= a. athldic directors with the troops
ovsrseas big Bllf' Edwards, VINO "
cleo taoklIns another war problem ~
collector Of internal revenue, has SUMMED
up brisfly the work Of the team anh
Ary athlete who has stood the strain
of an athletic contest. whether II be foot
hall, baseball, track or any other compe
eitfoo "A rood enough for service abroad
A nan that has flood the contest IN blg
cAampionship games and knows What y,
moans 20 be on his mark and start anu
fsis,s ar race ...s, the ny.S E'Hf ,S.Ts % '" ''
"A man who IL morally unfit would
nj consider himself as an applicant for
tke lob. Nor would any man who 10 not
n sympathy with the things they are
fiehtine for over there man should,
abeve everything, have a Keen deNte
10 10. He should have a personality
vbicb exemplifies the power Of leadership
and he should not only he able 20 lead
men, but control them a. well
''The kind Of a man that would be a
uuccess over there Ia the man that
would never ask q group OF men TO 20
anything that he would not do himself
o should be ready at All times 70 wash
Il dish, 10 serve a soldier, blacken a
mans boots n he, had to- or clean
MORN covered with mud from con
6eant lying in the trenches.
Al Must Hslb serve.
IN fact, this war demands service
rom every one Of the boys. from the
hiHhest 10 the lowest degree, not only
III clean work. but dirty work Any
man whose heart Ia In the war would
b doing a service whether he Ia acting
q General Pershlng's staff or removing
waste material from the different camps
"In sending out notices 10 athletes, ]
have realised that we cannot be too
particular and make our standards too
hogh in the selection Of men Condl-
tions on tina other side are not known
to us here 10 any great extent mar
has got 20 have plenty OF tact ent
adapt himself to conditions which VII
arise over there, and find from mer
that have talked with ana the mer
have heard about. that they arc very
eeger 10 render any service which they
AZ called upon 10 do In France.
"Of course II IL great satisfaction
10 q man who has played the game and
10 Al an age when he Is physically un-
fie for Uncle Sans o. X. 10 know that
he can serve through the Young Mems
Christian Association some Of the others
who are fighting over there In France.
should BE . confldhnt
at would be foolish Of me even 10
suggest to any real American what his