The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
|c]kGa1ONCIE ! |9ND. OYER.
Use Of Sugar In Training Athletes Old Stuff
 To Amos 0. Pipp.


 To Amos 0. Pipp. "The use of sugar to increase the physical energy of athletes under strain of great exertion ain't nothing new,' declared Amos Q. Pipp, the old-time quarter back on the Patooka College football team, in commenting upon the experiments conducted at Yale by Prof. Yandell Henderson. "When l played with Patooka 1t was a common thing for every member of the eleven to carry bag of sugar into the game with him for use the minute he felt the wear and tear"
 (Note-Mr. Pipp was known in his
 football days as Snake" Pipp. He played
 right halfback and was picked by Walter
 Camp for a place on the All-American team of 1SS6.)
 Sugar, as Prof. Henderson says, offsets the depletion in the blood during violent exertion. In the old days there was much more violent exertion and the experiments had to be discontinued because it took so much more sugar to keep a player in shape. My team played Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Col gate, Williams, Gillette, Mennens and all the big colleges. We was often beaten but only wheri we ran out of sugar in the croocial moments"
 | (Note-Mr. Pipp will be remembered
 for his famous 95-yard run against Will
 liam & Mary, especially against Will liam. He was known as Rabbit" Pipp
 and played left end)
 Our trainer was strong for this sugar theory in football and he was always sweet enng up the team. At one time nine of the eleven varsity players were diabetic. He claimed no player could do his best in a big game unless he had the right sugar con tent and maintained it throughout the con- Aal-N ,rnh straight and he used to let me train on gum drops. A good many people have wondered why in my famous 45-yard run l got the ball right down on the two-yard line and then was thrown for loss of 30-yards. It caused lot of comment in the papers at the tlme The fact of the matter is I ran out of candy
 q don't suppose anybody ever knew why collapsed in the big game the next season. was going great at fullback, the position l always played, up to the last half when, after the ball had been placed to me for an end run, and with a clear field before me, I de- | yeloped what appeared to be blind staggers and started running around in circles. You remember I snapped at everybody who ap- preached me and they finally had to catch me by throwing a net over my head.
 'gThe reason was this The head coach had
 
 that game. After every play he woud force me to take a heaping cupful. l hated the stuff andelnbeknowst to him, would drink lot of new elderberry wine after each dose. | It was a hot day. Then at the critical mo- ment when I was called upon to take the ball and save the day, felt queer gurgling and tickling sound in my chest Suddenly I began to swell up. Then l became very dizzy. As took the ball for the run the truth dawned upon me: HAD BEGUN TO FERMENTv'
 (Mr. Pipp is best known to football
 followers as "Steam Engine" Pipp. He was All-American right guard for eleven years, seven of which were after his grad | uation.)
 Remember that famous game between Patooka and Yale when Patooka was sent back 20 yards just when touchdown seemed certain? We'll, nobody ever knew what the reason was I'll tell you We was penalized | 20 wards for unnecessary sweetness! "