Evening star., 1924-01-31

I Bill Fetzer. the guiding hand at
che wheel of North Carolina athletics
believes that wrestling is splendid
Taining for his foot ball men and
ndoubtedly the great majority of
arheel gridironers will spend their
sinter pulling and hauling one an
pther around a sixteen foot mat.
Wrestling is employed during the
inter months at many schools to
Nve foot ball players training. ES-
,ecially has this been done at Univer-
Wy of Illinois and Penn State, where
got ball has been generally success
vi. 1t is figured that wrestling de-
tlops in man dexterity and ability
handle himself while in physical
.entact with another that can lie ac-
Mired as we'll in 40 other way.
The Value of other sports as a
tanning for foot ball has long been
q coGnized, but just what type of
sport is most valuable has been Just
aS long debated. Some feel that
wrestling is the best sport in which
SCOT ball player may acquire physical
Ind mental capabilities most neces-
sary to make him good performer
On the gridiron. Others are just as
sincere in expressing their belief that
boxing offers the finest field. Still
| others say that track and field sports,
Especially running, are the best posSi-
kble types of training in developinS
kfoot ball men. Many coaches IKE
rhelr Sr1dlrOn men 10 ' u :
basket ball so as to become more
. expert in handling ball. Ana SO on.
Probably the question never Will De
satisfactorily settled for eNerEpouH'
The development foot ball men get III
any other spot is valuable to them as
foot ball players. 1t undoubtedly Is
true that much of the success that
the University of Maryland enjoyed
on the gridiron last fall was due 10
the training many members OF It's
squad received as members or the
lacrosse squad the previous spring
Probably il is true no one sport offers
the best general field for training all
foot ball players.
Each man in foot ball between sea-
sons should take part in the sport 10
which he is best adapted. and in all
proba bility from that Will derive the
most benefit. Certain types OF play
ers would get practically no beneht
from wrestling, while the same types
might be immeasurably benehted -by
playing lacrosse or tennis or oase
ball or basket ball. Certain it is,
though, that any foot ball player who
expects to give a good account OF
himself during the three fall months
must get out and participate In the
interim III some form of competitive
recreation.
Another angle to foot ball players
taking part in other sports is the
jact that those that do never are in
iured as easily as those that do not.
h foot ball player who plays base ball
In the spring and summer. for in
stance, usually goes through the fall
without injury or without physlcal
troubles, while the man who never
takes part in any sport from the end
of one foot ball season to the begin
ming of another seldom gets by the
first three weeks practice without
some kind of an injury or bad brulse
from which he ails more or less dur
ing the entire schedule.
1t is the fact that. coaches recog-
niZe the value of participation in
other sports, thereby keeping the
muscles strong and pliable all the
year round. that causes them to in
sist SO strongly on their gridmen go
ing out for basket ball, base ball OF
track or some other fairly strenuous
form of exercise.