Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-20
Coach McCMty Sees That
Boys Enjoy Daily Drills;
Chances of Beating Penn
Charter Rosy
KRAFT NEW WINGMAN
By EDWIN J. POLLOCK

COACHING a schoolboy football team
~ and coaching 1t successfully is a
bigger job than the ordinary layman
school player Is at the age when he can
be made or broken physically. The right
kind of exercise will make him: the
wrong kind, or too much exercise, will
break him.
Lieutenant Lawson Robertson. the
former Penn trainer, contends that
where work begins the benefit of ex-
ercise stops. He also backs the theory
that the best exercise comes from play.
In other words, athletics that are en-
joyable.
We went out yesterday to take a look
at the Episcopal Academy players in
practice and it was a relief to see
squad of boys having a lot of fun, in
stead of worrying and frettng over the
plays and formations. There was not
youth on the Strawbridge q Clothier
field who was not having a crackerjack
time. 1t wasn't football drilling, it was
football PLAYING.
McCafty Plays, Too
Charley MCSdTty, lHe SOaSi, Nt-'>>S
narticular pains to see that his boys
enjoy themselves. In his knickerbockers
and sweater, Charley is as much Of a
bow as any candidate for his team and
| TO show for It he has an athletic body
that bellies his sprinkling OF gray hair.
Coach McCarty never allows his
| charges to take the practices too Sc
| riously; he never gives them enough
work to think they are working. When
he sees signs of a tired body, he calls
off practice. He never uses up all the
energy of his boys. with the result that
his team has something left for the next
day.
Let It not be thought that McCarty al
| lows the Episcopal football players to
Joke their way through the season. He
has the happy ability to mix work with
pleasure He teaches football and
| teaches it well, as the record of the team
| to date shows, but the players absorb
| the technical knowledge almost uncon-
sciously and in playing at football they
get to work at football instinctly.
Best Chance Since 1911
Coach McCarty's methods are vindi-
| Gated by the fact that not since 1911
has an Episcopal eleven been so close to
an interacademic championship as at the
present moment. The battle for the title
takes place at Queen Lane Friday aft
ernoon and not since Ned Harris, the
former Penn captain, led the Episcopal
boys seven years ago have chances been
so rosy.
This is McCarty's second year at Epis-
copal and Penn Charter. the 1nteraca-
demc champion. for six years in success
sion. Is wavering. McCartys team may
not win the title. but that does not mean
that the season Is a failure. No foot
ball season is a failure II the candidates
are brought to better physical condi'
| ton.
Episcopal has not been strong this
season because of veterans There are
only three players on the team who were
regulars last year.
Only Three Veterans
They are Captain Ringe. the center
Starr the quarterback, and Jack Will
lams. the big blonde fullback. The rest
of the team is made up of inexperi-
enced boys.
Coach McCarty will start the same
eleven against Penn Charter as the
one which beat Germantown Academy
last week. with one exception. Mock