Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early experimentation had come to a stop, and the game was becoming in every way comparatively formalized. A few old photographs will immediately show the outward signs. The football player may not have worn a helmet, but a mustache in full bloom weighed him down almost as much...
While a man with a broken bone or split kidney receives the same treatment as a Varsity player, the fact that he is allowed two weeks in a hospital and all surgeons fees expense paid seems slight recompense for an avoidable injury. As long as intramural football operates on a collegiate level, there should be some attempt to prepare players for big-time games. A smaller schedule, with a total of twenty-five games and three weeks of pre-season training, would ease the pressure on teams now held to a thirty-five game schedule with only a short practice...
...start of the season, every player on the Browns is handed a looseleaf notebook with his name lettered on it in gold. Coach Brown expects his players to take down everything he says in "skull practice." He inspects the notebooks, and even insists that they be neat...
...field, Brown's instructions are quietly delivered. Says he: "Days of ranting and raving are over. This has become a cold, analytical business. You can't bamboozle a professional or even a college or high-school player with corn. The desire to win you create that way is short-lived. It blows up with the first adversity. You can't talk a man into doing a job right. He learns only by doing it a hundred times, under exacting supervision...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...