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...early '30's were comparatively lively days in the Dillon locker rooms. Alumni attended football practices regularly, becoming locker-room fixtures of sorts, but except for an occasional wistful exrugby player, most alumni no longer turn up except when they have complaints...
...Mischief. After a game, fans queue up at locker-room doors just to glimpse or touch the hero who kicked a goal. But where U.S. big-league baseballers make a minimum of $5,000 a year (and on up to $90,000), soccer stars who bring as high as $95,000 when sold on the open market get a top salary of about $56 a week, plus $8 bonuses for every game won. The British encourage their stars to have an off-season job. "It keeps a man out of mischief," said Robert Williamson, a Scottish football official. "It doesn...
Pampered Legs. At 23, Mel Patton looks fragile enough to be bowled over by the smell of locker-room sweat. But he has run the 100 yards faster than any man living or dead-in 9.3 seconds (an unofficial world's record). In the chow-line last week, a husky teammate yelled at him: ''Step aside and let us weight-men in. No fuss, now-you're the one man around here I can lick." Patton, grinning, yelled back: "Better be careful, Moose, I gained a pound last week...
...Blame Ed. At halftime, in the locker room, St. Louis sucked oranges, watched Coach Hickey-in shirtsleeves-play all five positions, chalk up their errors on the locker-room floor. He wanted four men, not just two or three, to get down fast under the basket after Macauley had snared a rebound ("I can't blame you, Ed. I've coached you to save your strength by coming up slow"). Then, after another Hail Mary huddle, they were back on the floor, and now their famed controlled fast break was really working...
...homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game that counts...