The Prescott daily news., 1921-01-10
FOOTBALL
(By Lump" Powell)


 luction complete and needs no ex- lation as to what this item is in- led for. At the same time it might
 lid that the game of football is,
 writers mind, the best of Amer
 atletics, hawever that is neither
 nor there for that leaves room
 m argument.
 Est let us> consider what constitu-
 ie game. It takes man strong
 i'll power and a determination. In
 ,eginning it is not so necessary
 boy or man to have these two
 tials, for if he enters into the
 ewith spirit he can not help but
 up these two traits. He is also
 2 to find himself will power and
 in that will power there is going
 e a determination to win, to go .ard, to succeed, and never be wn back only to get up with a nger determination to get further.
 her essential item is that the boy
 an is going to find it necessary,
 e is not already so)i to be clean
 ving. If he is to succeed in the
 e of football he must not dissip-
 in any form. Take for instance own squad; how manyy men of the squad use the" pill "while in
 ling? While the writer is not a ,nber of the high school at the ,e time ahs noticed these men on streets and can honestlyy say that
 time has he seen a regular" soking a ciggerette. And as he ks older in the game he finds in himself a spirit of manliness,
 to be man" he finds it necess-
 Ito be fair and a believer in the Ken rule Do unto others as you Ed have them do unto you"
 len we might discuss what is to Sttained by this game. of football: Minds a physical training that ian not find in any other game. sIilds physique to be proud of in an. It is true that one becomes
 xed down and run over, but is 7;not for the hardening of muscles? ? Pdat act, is not the fur" rubbed
 wrong way, and he gets up with .,termination that it shall not Den again? There is also mind in the game that pe- ar in itself is not to be found Where. The mind is trained to q quickly and surely, and the scles are trained to respond just quickly as the mind has acted. game throws fifteen men to- her for a period of time, and in x time there is a friendship build that Old Father Time finds hard destroy. As the writer looks S now at his High School days, l'e is the old football squad first be thought of. The friends, four I in number, are as true today as V were when the quarterback ed signals, and can be trusted 10 |Fond to the call now as they were Sted then to carry the ball over. Tn what more could we attain than friendship such as this. Does not .pn's name stand longer than any ug he leaves on this earth? Then @e makes a name to stand in the 'als of High School history by ying football, is he not placed in
 path for bigger successes, and ire to place his name in the annals United States history? Then let a game of football.
 is true that baseball has the ae of being the National Game, z? Because, in the writer's mind, season is longer, and the game is so hard to understand. The 'erican of today can not bother mind with complicated games, if |is an on-looker, so follows after game that is easy to understand. football easy to understand? Lo! about you and number those Understand the game. Then if
 Znires thoughts it not a game
 $elopment?