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KENTUCKY

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an independent'student newspaper

' Housing is universal problem

UK students found classes and campus different in Germany

By. LORI LANDERS
Staff Writer

Working within a foreign exchange program set up
between UK and the University of Heidelberg. two UK
students may venture across the Atlantic to continue their
studies for a year in Germany while two natives of that
country attend UK.

The Heidelberg scholarship. initiated by UK President
Herman Donovan more than 25 years ago. provides UK
students with the opportunity to study with professors of
international reputation at one of Germany's oldest
universities.

Rick Ezell. a teaching assistant in the German
department. and Ted Rozell. a first year law student. spent
last year in Germany after receiving the scholarship. They
shared some of their insights. experiences and knowledge
about Heidelberg.

The German university is comparable to UK in student
population but is set up quite different physically. There is
no campus. they said. because the school is spread
throughout the city with each major department having its
classes. libraries and professors‘ offices all within one
particular building.

One of the first problems Ezell and Roszell had to
contend with was communication. Ezell said that it took
four to five months before he felt fairly fluent with the

Veteran linebacker Jim Kovach (center), being pass interception in two years during the UK-
Baylor game on Saturday. A first-year medical

touted by UK coaches as a candidate for All-

German language. “It‘s hard to make friends until you
learn the language.“ he commented.

Roszell also noted that in every town the speech is
distinctly different. If one travels only 30 miles in
Germany. he might encounter a completely different
dialect. “It‘s important for students who speak a foreign
language to realize the characteristics of language are
markedly different from town to town. High German.
which is the clearest ‘radio form‘ of the language is used
most frequently to help foreigners understand.“ he added.

Roszell and Ezell found UK students are not alone in
their housing problems. which is a great problem at
Heidelberg. In fact. Ezell said the situation there is
probably more critical than in Lexington because “it (an
apartment) is a private affair , it passes among friends."
he said. ‘

Ezell said he found an apartment through the Foreign
Student Affairs office which provided him with a list of
available rooms when he arrived in the country.

Both students said they noticed a considerable
difference in the overall student atmosphere. Students are.
on the average. somewhat older'and more serious about
their academic endeavors. Common discussion topics
among friends are classes. art or politics.

Roszell described his German counterparts as “much
more politically aware than students here.“ They read the
newspapers carefully. he said. and know as much about

Hallelujah”

US politics as they do about their own. A foreigner
visiting Germany “has to be alert“ to show some
understanding of politics because it is such a common
topic there.

Roszell studied Germanic literature while at Heidelberg
and said his experience abroad helped him to see America
in a different perspective. He added he sees the US. society
more clearly now after being away for nearly a year. ”I
notice more things and attach new meanings to them now.“

The differences between higher education in Germany
and the United States are also evident to Stephanie
Zimmermann. one of two German students now attending
UK as part of the exchange. Zimmermann said she feels
studies at UK provide more practical skills.

“In Germany. the studies are much more theoretical."
She also noted attendance is required at all classes.

Zimmermann arrived in Lexington about four weeks
ago and is attending classes in the College of Medicine asa
third-year student. She explained that the scholarship
application process which she and Thilo Krauter. the
second student from the German university, went through
was much like the one UK students go through. The pair
submitted letters of recommendation and a statement
telling why they wish to study abroad as well as going
through an interview.

Zimmermann said she has enjoyed her experience so far.
“I‘m very glad to come to the United States because it is so

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easy-going." She said her medical classes have a much
more personal setting and added that “professors here are
more willing to show and explain things."

She also added that it was probably easier for her to
come to the US. than for UK students to go to Germany
because of the friendlier atmosphere.

Zimmermann had the same problems finding housing in
Lexington that many natives encountered. That is until
Claudia Hickman. a music graduate student who is
attending Heidelberg on the opposite end ofthe exchange.
offered Zimmermann her apartment for the year. “Before
that I was l63rd on the waiting list to live in residence
halls.“ Zimmermann said.

The two UK students who will be studying in Germany
this year Hickman and Susan Schmitz. a senior
economics major will not only have the academic
benefits of the program. but can also take advantage of
many cultural benefits. They include a free week-long trip
to Berlin and special student rates at theatres. museums.
concerts and historical sites.

Students who are interested in the Heidelberg
Scholarship should contact the German department. Prof.
Ingeborg Riester. chairperson of the scholarship
committee. explained the scholarship is open to all
upperclassmcn and graduate students who have completed
at least four semesters of German. Applications are being
accepted from Oct. l5 through Dec. |.

Committee to seek ways
to coordinate students’
career planning programs

By GIL LAWSON

Stall Writer

Robertson said the career
information services “need to be more
aggressive." with “better coordination

By DAVID O'NEllr/ Kernel Staff

football after being injured in the first game of last
season. Kovach starred on the defensive squad as

America status after the season, celebrates his first student, Kovach is playing his final year of UK UK defeated Baylor 25-2].

A plan to coordinate student career
planning services between various
colleges and other services at UK has
been initiated with the naming of an
Advisory Committee on Student
Career Development.

The Ad Hoc Committee on Career
Information and Planning reviewed
the vocational and career services at
UK and made recommendations last
December on how to improve services
for students.

The committee found that although
a "variety" of services are available to
students. the resources are not always
well coordinated and publicized.

For example. the ad hoc committee
found there is an “inconsistancy of
services within each college . . . Thus
some students benefit. while others
have no contact with such aids."

It also found there is no
“coordinating structure“ for the
different career service programs to
follow at UK.

Dr. John Robertson. who chaired
the ad hoc committee and represents
the College of Agriculture on the new
committee. called the recommenda-.
tions a “good beginning.“

He said he hoped the new committee
would “look at the ad hoe committee‘s
report in-depth and pick up on it.“

of the various programs and services.“

There is also a need for the career
services in the various colleges and the
Placement Service to be better
coordinated. he said.

“The services that are now available
are not always known to the students.“
Robertson said.

He added the formation of the
committee was the “best thing for right
now. so more can get involved."

Robert Zumwinkle. vice-president
of student affairs. made it clear that
the program was in an “exploratory
stage.“

“This is no implication that certain
programs in colleges are injeopardy.“
Zumwinkle said.

Zumwinkle said no major actions
would be taken until the end of the
semester. “It will take two or three
meetings to assess where we are.“ he
said.

Representatives from each college
and other student service
organizations. such as the Placement
Service and Student Government.
have been named to the committee in a
joint project by Zumwinkle and Dr.
Lewis Cochran. vice president of
student affairs. The committee will
hold its first meeting next Thursday.

 

Business Administration degree
changed to meet student demand

By STEVE MASSEY
Staff Writer

The College of Business and
Economics. in response to student
demands as well as in an effort to
maintain a competitive realm. is
adding four new divisions to its
Bachelor of Business Administration
degree.

The four divisions. which are
labeled areas of concentration. include
Marketing. Finance. Industrial
Administration. and Personnel/in-
dustrial Relations. The regular general
business degree will still be offered.

According to Dr. William Ecton.
dean of the college. the BBA degree
previously had entailed an “ls-hour
segment called departmental major. of
which very few courses were
specified.“

With the new format. approved
Aug. 25 by the Senate Council.
students who are working towards a
BBA degree will be able “to specialize
in one of these functional areas once

the college core required of all students
is fulfilled.“ said Dr. Lynn Spruil.
chairman of the department of
business administration.

The initiation of the four new
speciality areas is due in part to results
from a I975 survey of benchmark
institutions conducted by Spruil and
his colleaqucs in the BA department.
The report revealed that UK was the
only school among those surveyed
which didn‘t offer areas of
concentration within the business
major.

The change is “a response to student
demand to be competitive as well as a
response to the demand of the
market.“ Ecton explained.

Joy Eagle. a BBA advisor to
freshmen and sophomore. emphasized
this point in saying “we are starting to
see that specialization is what students
prefer.“

In this respect. Eagle believes the
areas of concentration will “give the
students a chance to major in
something they‘re really interested in

as well as give them an expertise in a
specific area. Specialization today
seems to be the key.”

Spruil. who has been working on the
switchover process for four years.
hopes the change in the BBA will “give
students more flexibility as well as
advantages in the job market.“ He
added that juniors currently working
on their BBA degree should have “no
trouble getting in the new program."

Although the program won‘t go into
effect until the spring semester. Dr.
Clyde Irwin. undergraduate
coordinator for BA. said “several
students have come to see me and
wanted to get into the program as
quickly as possible. We don‘t know
how successful it will be. but the
demand is there.“

In response to students‘ questions
concerning the change. the Dean‘s
office will offer a series of open
meetings sometime before pre-
registration. A final date and time
have not been decided on.

—today

state

THE FATHER 0F FORMER state Democratic
chairman Howard “Sonny" Hunt claims he gave then-
Finance Secretary Russell McClure three Sl00 bills in late
l975 as payment for an Ambassador automobile owned by
the state.

But McClure. no an administrative assistant to Gov.
Julian Carroll. denies any knowledge or memory of the
transaction.

Both Howard Hunt. Sr. of Danville and McClure gave
sworn testimony to state investigators trying to unravel the
story of two state vehicles which were transferred to the
Hunt family.

A Io-VEAR-OID NELSON County school bus. which
plunged into a ditch Monday with 57 persons aboard. was
one of several buses scheduled to be replaced at the
beginning of the school term. said a spokesman at the school
bus garage.

Five of the 56 children were hospitalized; the remainder
were treated for minor injuries and released.

A mechanical supervisor at the garage. said the bus was
one of the oldest in service.

world

FRENCH PRESIDENT VALERY Giscard d‘Estaing on
Monday gaye the go-ahead to start construction next year
on a nuclear submarine carrying a “new generation" of
nuclear missiles.

It will be France's sixth nuclear submarine and is expected
to be launched around I985. a statement released by the
Elysee Palace said The sub will be the first to be armed with
new M4 nuclear missiles.

 

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A PACKED BOEING 727 collided head-on with a small
plane flown by a student pilot Monday. and both planes
crashed in flaming fragments into a populous reSIdential
area of San Diego. Officials said at least l4l persons were
killed in the worst air disaster in US. history.

The pilots of both planes had been warned that they were
on a collision course. and both acknowledged the warning.
according to a spokesman for the Federal Aviation
Administration. The National Transportation Safety Board
is analyzing cockpit tapes.

Burning debris from the Pacific Southwest Airlines
jetliner rained down and ignited at least nine wood frame
houses and two businesses. Parts of burned bodies dropped
onto rooftops and into streets. The neighborhood‘s mostly
elderly residents tried frantically to douse the flames with
garden hoses. sending clouds of gray-black smoke billowing
over the area.

PRESIDENT CARTER SAID Monday he will soon
announce new measures to promote exports. control
inflation and help build a stronger US. economy that will
support the dollar.

Caner. in a speech to the 33rd annual joint meeting of the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank. said
controlling inflation. boosting exports and reducmg OlI
imports "constitute the most urgent priorities of my
administration."

“We will not shrink from the hard decisions and persistent
efforts that are needed We are determined to maintain a
sound dollar." (‘arter said.

weather

TODAI WILL BE mostly sunny and mild with
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Hopkins would resist

Although he originally planned to run for
governor. Larry Hopkins of I.e.\‘ington ehanged his
plans this summer arid entered the sixth
Congressional raee against his client. Tom Ifasterh‘.‘
in plaee of Mary Louise I-‘oust who withdrewfrom
the race early this summer.

Hopkins attended .llurry State University.
Southern '" Methodist (t'niversity atid Purdue
University and reeieved an “Honorary Doctorate iii
Laws "from .‘llorehead State l'niversity in I975.

Senator Hopkins served as I’ai'ette (‘ounty ('ourt
Clerk in I 969 and was elected State representative of
the 78th legislative district iti I972. I974 and [976.
In I 978. he was eleeted to the state senate. winning
all 96 preeinets in the I 3th .S'enatoria/ district. Since
I 972 he has maintained littl percent attendenee in
the General .4 ssemlili'. serving on committees such
as Education. Rules. State (iovernment. Health and
Wei/are. arid as Chairman of the first Fayette
County ('rime ('ouneil. He has also served on the
Legislative Research ('omniission.

He was chairman of the I973 Special ()ll‘ltlplt‘s‘
and has served on the Bluegrass .Aissoelation for
Mental Retardation and the International Platform
Association. and was selected Legislator oi'the Year
in I974. I976 and in I978 liy three seperate
organizations.

Hopkins is a registered stoek liroker on the New
York Stock Exchange. mimeriean Stork list-hange.
Mid-”est Stock live/tattge tttitl Ilte National
Association of Securities Dealers. and is employed
by J.J.B. Hilliard and ll'.I.. Iyons. Ine.

 
   
 

Q. You came into the (‘ongressional race late; had
you thought about running before Mary Louise
Foust dropped out?

 

agree with them all the time; they don‘t expect you
"to agree with everything that they say. They expect
you to be straight.

You know the thing on the rich stockbroker (a

newspaper ad) it was totally uncalled for. I mean
it absolutely destroyed any credibility along with
the other things he's (Easterly) done.

Q. Do you support legal abortions?
A. lam not in favor ofabortions and certianly not

government funding of them.

Q. Easterly gave me the same answer.
A. Easterly was the sole sponsor of bill 238 in I974

which was the most radical abortion bill ever
presented: so radical that he couldn‘t get anyone to
co-sponsor the bill with him. even the pro-abortion
people. It would do two things: allow for a do-it
yourself abortion and it allow a minor to go and
have an abortion without their parents' concent or

knowledge. I think that‘s radical. its far too radical
for the sixth district. which is basically conservative.

Here‘s the bill. those are facts and then for him
to tell you he‘s against abortion. I‘m not trying to
say you ought to be for abortion or you ought to be
against abortion. I'm trying to point out that the guy
waffles on issues. like. he said on channel 27 that
he‘s against the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill. and the
paper pointed out to him the next day that he said
two weeks ago he was for it.

 

    
     
   
     
     
   
     
     
   
    
      
   
    
     
    
   
   
   
   
     
   
     
     
    
    
     
     
   
   
   
   
   

 
 

A. I talked to Mary l.ouise Foust before she
dropped out and she asked me if I would rtin. I told
her that her decision should not be predicated on
what I may or may not do. It was not in our plans
(for me to run for congress).

Q. Why did you contribute $25 to Senator Tom
Easterly‘s primary campaign?

A. 'lom reminded me on the senate floor that l
was his stockbroker. l contributed to Tom Easterly.
the client not Tom l-‘astcrly. the candidate. He
can give me the 525 back if it embarrasscs him. I
certainly don't endorse anything he stands for: he's
government oriented. I‘m not.

Q. Are you still Easterly‘s stockbroker?
A. As far as I know. yes. l never see him.

Q. What do you think of Easterly blasting you as
a “rich stockbroker" when he. obyiouly. is "rich"
enough to need a stockbroker?.

A. lom says he's put his life‘s sayings into this
campaign; I don‘t know the average person out
there who has 5.10.000 to put into a campaign. first
of all. I‘ve got a family to support and I don‘t have
330.000 to put in a race. Secondly. when he charged
me with that. we showed them the tiles and showed
that each year. since I've been a' candidate. I have
always filed my income ta\. state and federal. with
the Kentucky clcctiions committee. I put them met
there for anybody to check I have nothing

 

the kernel interview with Iarry hopkins

by mary lou hyme/

Copyright© The Kentucky Kernel

whatsoever to hide.

When you go into public life. you accept the fact
that you live in a fish bowl. That‘s frankly why a lot
of people don't go into it. A lot of qualified people
that ought to be in politics aren't because of the fish
how] that you must live in. Apparently he(Easterly)
is not willing to do that: he believes in that for other
rseoplc. not himself.

Q. Easterly said that the Republican party had
$20,000 waiting for you when you accepted the
nomination. Is this true? If not. where did that
money come from?

A. When a candidate. for any reason. drops out of
a race. the law provides for the party to have a
convention to nominate another candidate so they
are not left without someone to run.

I announced my candidacy before the convention
was held and I started reeieving contributions from
people. We‘re getting help from all over. because
they (the people) want an alternative to this style of
government. There‘s nothing wrong with what we
did; he (Easterly) knows it. he operates on inucndo
and smear tactics in campaigns. That’s one of many
gutter-style tactics that he‘s using. I think its very

unfortunate.

Q. Easterly has been charged with having strong
labor connections. What is your opinon?

A. These are not my charges. They are things
stated by the AFL-(‘lO itself when they endorsed
Mr.F.astcrly as their boy. He was their lawyer; he
was their resource director: they whistlcd. he
danced. Check his record. that‘s all I‘ve got to say.

The best way for people to judge candidates.
particularly this year. is. when a candidate tells you
what he is going to do tomorrow. look at what he
did yesterday.

He (Fasterly) wants to unionile all government
employees. and is sponsored and totally backed by
the All-(TO. .

Q. Easterly told me that the charges against you
that were being looked into by the fair praticcs
committee had been dropped.

A. The situation is this: Easterly said he had proof
of the charges: Mary Louise Foust asked for the
proof and he didn't have it; the fair praticcs
committee asked for the proof and he didn‘t have
any; the news media. which is the voice of the
people. asked for the proof. he didn't have any. Its
just that simple there‘s nothing there. Again.

innuendo.

Stick with the facts; that‘s what people want.
lhey just want someone who‘s going to shoot
straight. that's how simple it is. You don't have to

5_______————-=————

At right: Author Hymel with Hopkins (seated). a
Hopkins aide. and Student Senator Bob (iunnell
(center).

Moo by TOM MORAN

Q. What is your position on national health
insurance? . ..

A. I‘m against it. This countryjust simply cannot
afford to pick up the tab for Mr. Kennedy‘s bill. We
just can't guarrantee happiness from the time you‘re
born until the time you die. That’s more government
regulation. The start-up cost alone is S IOO billion
that‘s just for start-up. I don’t believe the people
want to be smothered totally by the government.

Our national debt is in the trillions. lfyou divide it
up among the taxpayers. we all owe S l 50.200 each. _

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government regulation

The interest alone on the national debt is 385.000 a
minute. Inflation is the number one problem in this
country. The only way you can stop inflation is to
stop the government spending in Washington.

Q. Are you in favor of the unionization of public
employees?

A. Absolutely not. I have constantly voted
against it and Mr. Easterly has voted constantly for
it but after all. he is the puppet forthc AFL-CIO.

Q. What is your stand on no-fault insurance?

A. I voted for no-fault insurance for the state of
Kentucky. But simply because it is good for the
people in this state doesn‘t mean it’s going to be
good for the nation. and I believe in states‘ rights.
States should decide what‘s right for them. not the
government.

Q. What do you see as the most important thing
you can do in Washington for the people of the sixth
district?

A. I would represent them to the very best of my
ability and in their best interests. The backbone of
my votes will be looking out for bills that are
inflationary. that put more regulations on their lives
and raise our taxes more. If they do those things.
you‘ll be looking at NO votes from Larry Hopkins. I
won‘t be walking out to the bathrooms frequently
with kidney problems so I won‘t have to face up to
the issues. I‘ve got enough behind my belt buckle to
vote one way or the other.

Check (Easterly‘s) record and see how many times
he wasn't there. I have I00 percent attendance and
I‘m going to represent these people the best way I
know how. The government has had its dipstick in
the crankcase of the taxpayer for too long. I think
it‘s time to withdraw it. The government is doing
such a good job that the people can hardly stand it.

Kernel Editorial Assistant Mary Lou Hymel is a
junior transfer student from the University of
Mississippi, and a journalism major. Her
copyrighted Kernel Interview will appear weekly
whenever possible, and will feature conversations
with people from and affecting the UK community,
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The dropback

The coach as ’irrepressib/e revolutionist’

Decades ago a football coach
named Walter '(‘amp was
trying to invent the long
forward pass. but he could
think of no way to get a receiver
far enough downlield to catch
it before the passer was
flattened by the del'ensiy e rush.
Listen to this account of the
moment of revelation and ask

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yourselves whether one of

Edison‘s was more profound.

“One night while studying
over the problem of how to get

.men down the field in a
'position to take a longer

forward pass. the thought
suggested itself. ‘Why not let
the full-back take up a position
as if to kick. and then. as soon
as the ball was passed to him.
let him run directly back
toward his own goal. say five or
seven often yards. and turn and
throw the ball‘." Ihe time
elapsing while he was thus
running back Would allow the
ends and possibly a half-back
or a tackle. if the end was
dropped back. jast so many
more seconds to run down the
field. whereas if the pass were
made from the full-back‘s usual
position. these men could only
get a short distance down the
field before the ball was
thrown.“

There it is. A powerful
imagination “irrepressible
revolutionist." Wallace Stevens
called it once again rescues
football from stalemate and
inertia. restores the game‘s
mobility. save it from brute
violence.

I‘m not one of those people
who believes that football
represents national virtue. Tthe
Nixon period remember the
warplane flyovers at the Super
Bowl? ~—warned me away from
attaching too much chauvin-
istic significance to a sports
spectacle. But it does impress
me that the quickness at the
core of the American outlook
finds expression in the
continual reinventing of
football. The great Yale guard

Pudge Heffelfinger said
football kept everyone “all
steamed up.“ But to twist this
innocent notion into the idea
that football should resemble
warfare or provide examples of
national fortitude is so
grotesque a distortion that it
threatens to subvert the game
even more than artificial turf
and domed stadiums already
have suberted it. Football is a
game of pristine mysteries.
Theodore Roosevelt loved the
game partley because wherever
he went. even along the banks
of the Amazon. found some
version of~football being

played. When a public outcry
over the brutality of lootball
threatened to outlaw the game
in the United States Roosevelt
appointed a commission whose
rule changes restored
movement. freeing the action
and relieving the brutality.
When it progresses. football

moves away from the.

kirkhorn

l‘ootless kicker. torn jerseys

which are simple reminders
that this is a game played in the
dirt in idle afternoons. lt isjust
the game. has the dignity of
being just a game. If football
embodies some creed. it can be
found in Jim 'l'horpc‘s amiable
squint. his footlooseness. his
disregard for success. his

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frustrating immobility which
still can be seen in the rugby
scrum. toward the long pass.
the broken field run.

Even those strategies which
supposedly epitomire the
violence of football often turn

out to be less brutal than they
seem. The Flying Wedge. in
which the ball carrier was
concealed by an advancing
barrier of blockers. was
invented by the chess master
Lorin F. Deland. while he was a
coach at Harvard. Its intention
was not to trample the
opposition. but to “...coneeal
the direction ofthe attack until
the two groups met and it was
too late for the defense to
adjust itself.“ A brutal team can
always be outwitted. Remem-
ber how Paul Brown sent the
huge defensive center guard to
the tarpit simply by splitting his
offensive guards. unclogging
the middle of the line.
bypassing the monster.

Amos Alonzo Stagg. who
continued to coach fora couple
of decades at College of the
Pacific after being retired at 70
from the University ofChieage.
understood that wit and not
power (or at least not witless
power) is the heart ofAmerican
football. “Deception never
quite has been considered
cricket“ by British footballers.
Stagg said. “With us it is the

heart of the game. By means of'

it the under dog may topple the
top dog. brains may defeat
braWn. It provides the
unexpected. the surprise
denouement that we like in all
our drama. Contests that are
decided purely by superior
force at apt to be dispiriting."

All the publicity about off-
season “weight programs“ is
likely to make us forget that
football is a game of
imagination and cleverness.
The size ofthe stadiums and of
the receipts may also eclipse the
fact that football is a homely

game. When I visited the
Professional Football Hall of
Fame in Canton. Ohio. I
expected to find something
more grandiose than this
unpretentious ’building filled
with relics Jim Thorpe‘s
football sweater. leather
noseguards and other ancient
equipment. a device worn by a

acceptance of an American
destiny. It always has been a
game where the agility needed
to follow 'I'horpe‘s "bright
path." the intuitive move
toward Vince Lombardi's
“daylight.“ mattered more than
any abstract formulation ofthe
meaning of the game.

Walter Camp was a sort
locker room philosopher. He
said. “Those who look beneath
the surface find in foot-ball in
the United States something to

supply that lack of rigid
discipline for which the
American youth. except
possibly at West Point and
Annapolis. suffer in compar-
ison with those of other
peoples. Not onlydoesthe rigid
training establish self-control
in those who play. but the game
holds up a standard of
discipline to those who observe
it.“ Camp‘s ingenuity
outweighed his puritanism:

instead of setting stern
examples of dutifulness and
discipline he generally found
himself noodling about some
genuine problem playing
and not worrying and he
must have been lifted straight
off the ground by jubilation
when he discovered the
dropback Eureka! Right
there all the time. and so
obvious. Now he could
outsmart the defenses that had
learned to defend against his
short passing game: now his
teams could play again. The
trick with football is to refuse
to look beneath the surface for
a display of values. to insist on
the game‘s mystery and refuse
to concede that it yields any
lessons.

Stagg knew football was an
imaginative game. even an
imaginary game. “There are
many men (players) of superb
imaginations in other respects
whom football leaves cold." he
wrote. “ ‘After all.‘ they tell
themselves. ‘this is only a game;
let‘s not get too excited about
it.‘ Meanwhile a true player will

have become so engrossed that
the game is as real life and
death. with honor and all at
stake.“ The moment players
“turn realists." admitting
discomfort. doubting the value
of the game. “they are worse
than useless. The real player.

on the other hand. neyer lcels
his brtnscs, lie is enjoying
himself hugely. lhc hotter the
battlc.thc more his body glows
with a physical exaltation and
his mum thrill to the impact ol
flesh against flesh."

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