Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-05
FEW ATHLETES HIT
BY CLASS FLUNKS
Proficiency Now viii Help
Youngsters Make Grade I
on College Teams.
BY EDWARD A. FULLER, JR.


TT won't be long before athletes
with a "chalreyhorse between
the ears" to use an express
sion said to have originated
with Knute Rockne, will be as
scarce in the District high schools
as stay-at-home fiappers.
In other words. it appears that the
cay OF the good athlete who is a poor
CITY,
For instance, marks for the advisory
period just ended in the high schools
reveal that few foot ball players failed
IN their studies In fact, for the most
part material was gained through grid
toner's who had been ineligible pulling
up their grades to passing.
school authorities are gratified by
the scholastic improvement shown by
athletes. They point out that the ath-
lete who studies diligently In the high
schools Is wise, II only for the reason
that he becomes used to doing what he
must do If he would be active athletic
ally later In college. Despite the claim
that some colleges have been letting
down the scholastic bars so far as they
affect athletes, a boy who is deficient
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In the average college; in fact, to get
into the institution
Without doubt, as the percentage Of
good athletes who also are efficient
students increases the quality of per-
formanceS in the various high school
sports will improve in proportion. An
athlete who Is alert mentally neces-
sarily will prove better one than
boy whose wits have not been sharpened
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books.
nUR good friend, Dan Ahern, West
~ ern High School coach, seldom
makes a kick about anything, be-
cause the big fellow Is not given to that
sort of thing, but he makes a point
anent the recent Eastern Western 90
foot ball game that is interesting.
Ahern, emphasizing that he does not
wish to take any credit from Eastern
for its stout showing against Western,
nevertheless Is convinced that the West
err. eleven entered the game under q
decided psychological disadvantage. in
that the press and others boosted the
stock of the Georgetown eleven so high
following its exhibition in holding Gen.
trail to lat victory that Western en-
tered the game too confident.
In late years this question OF psy-
chology in athletics has been receiving
increasing attention, as it has in it,
application to other fields
We are inclined to string along with
Ahern in his theory to a considerable
extent.
EMERSONS foot ball squad left here
II this morning for Chattanooga.
Tenn, where it will face Baylor
Military Academy's eleven Friday after
noon. The party win arrive in Chatta-
nooga tomorrow night, and viii hold
limbering drill on the Baylor field FRI
day morning.
Those making the trip. besides Coach
Harley Sanborn, are Albert and Payne
ends; Longest and Henderson, tackles;
Tehaan and Healy, guards; Ed Hafiin
and Fauntleroy, centers, and thrilling,
Buscher. Mccarthy. Millar, Draper and
Lewis, backs.
business and Central elevens were
I'D scheduled to face today In the Cen
trail Stadium in their public high
school championship foot ball match,
postponed from yesterday because OF
the rain.
Plebes at Annapolis.