The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-18

grades football coach might have
been anything drawn by horses.
Then later in high school he be-
came a symbol Of hard work in
football, (but not for me, was too
small.) Take in football for in
stance, 1t was the time Stub Olson
was getting gray pounding funda-
mentals into q bunch Of brass
nobs, I was the manager (unoffic-
tally logged out the water jug).
He chewed his gum little harder
when things irked him, and who
wouldn't be irked. But of course in
basketball was where I was a shin
ing light.
Before I delve into personal his
tory, the boys are still laffing. One
afternoon in basketball Stub brot
down the ball with Fay Domke on
the guarding. Well, as Stub ap-
preached, Fay tossed one of the
neatest football blocks into him
I've ever seen. Stub followed thru
onto his head. Fay and the boys
were quaking in their tennis shoes
Stub got up, turned to Fay, with
That's what 1 tried to get you to
do all fall in football" You see
they're human Stub called me
Whitley and sent me thru the PAGES
one night so long thot every time
I breathed it would be my last, fol-
I sucked my lungs In so hard they
pasted against my back twice. But
I got thru it to find that was to
play with the seconds against Mel.
rose. That game marked the high.
light of my career when dribbled
the length of the floor and made q
basket-under adverse circum-
stances, too. I was pleased, and
looked at the coach for q response
But his face was a mask and he
only chewed his gum. (TIe wasn't
human that time, but after all
that's what I was supposed to do.)
Take Harvey and TOftnoss
for instance They're both hui
man. Harvey chewed licorice at
the games until he got mar
ried. But these two guys can
be about the toughest coaches
on two wheels (pardon me,
feet. They'll yell at the top of
their voices at some unsuspect-
ing fireman or baclkfield man
pointing out 10 him that he
Oughta be I'm wheel chair. But
each turns his back and snick-
ers because they know the guy
is giving, but they want to see
more. Harvey will run onto the
field, yell at the referee, curse
the opposing coach during the
game. When it's all over, he'll
shake hands with everybody
win or lose or draw. And bell
the boys they did all right
where they did all right.
don't know so much about loft
ness, new basketball man, but he
acts like a typical coach. In fact he
is so typical he had me taking my
hair down and crying out loud in q
kerchief the other day. I listened
to him for ten minutes as regards
his basketball team and the sur
seemed actually to grow DINNER as
he talked. It seemed the day ha6
lost it's SAVIOR, the world could moi
be right, and turn out such team
for a coach. For already he is suf
fering the anguish of losing al
those games. He wouldn't be sur
prised if Stiles Station would wal
lop his boys-only they aren't or
the schedule which is his one ray
of light. But say he's human and sc
is Harvey. They laugh and talk
just like people. And they're in one
of the most peculiar businesses in
the world. One year you may be
the best of the clan, and the next
you cannot truthfuliy say you've &C.
complished anything-except char
acter building. I have an idea thai
under the given circumstances
coaches will even break down and
get all excited about the fact his
team is going to win that day.