Last week a few of the problems fac~
ing football
sented. Here are more problems and
a list of essentials that must be had be-
fore a football team can be fielded.

What are our problems in the way
of personnel and equipment? Well, we
would need a good head coach and three
assistants for the line, backfield and
freshman squad. A good trainer is
essential. We should have one new for
all our teams. He mends equipment, is
first aid man, rubdown expert and gen-
eral overseer of the health condition of
all players. He needs at least four
assistantsfipossibly trained students
working part time—to help him when
the squads finish practice.

-We must have a doctor on the
practice field at all times as well
as on the playing field. A moment’s
delay with a brokenvneck or care-
less handling of the injured may
mean death. Remember, these boys
will not be blocking and tackling
in sheer roguishness; they will be
in deadly earnest. Hospitalization
plans and medical facilities must
be available.

Gymnasium equipment starts with
hot tub baths, electrical massage ma—
chines, heat penetrating electrical ma—
chines, swirling baths, hair dryers,
medical supplies, drying ovens to dry
uniforms soaked in rain, snow and mud.
Remember, a football game is not called
off on account of weather!

For the work outdoors, we must have
uniforms, nose guards, shin pads, foot-
ball shoes, extra cleats, charging dum-
mies, tackling dummies, goal and line
marking equipment for a minimum of
33 players on a varsity squad, perhaps
50, and at least 25 or 30 players bu the
freshman squad. Why freshmen? They
learn opponent’s plays, take a beating
on our oifense and provide competition
for varsity posts.

We need a field to play on. It must
'be» a Well drained field, with a soft turf
that can be protected completely with
tarpsulins in case of snow storms.
Ogden field could be used for practice,
but only after the track and baseball
diamond were eliminated and the field
reconditioned. It also must be equipped
for floodlights. Ogden field, however, is
allocated for new buildings, so that new

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land would have to be purchased and
developed.

Despite our prevailing heavy
scholastic schedules, our student
players will need another course,
a lecture and lab in football. They
must learn offense, defense, rules
and strategy. The rudiments of the
game such as blocking, tackling,
punting, place kicking, passing,
dodging, “straight-arming,” etc,
must be practiced over and over
until the right actions become
habit.

If this training is to be up to date
and on a par used by our probable
opponents, we will have to have a mom
tion picture camera and projector to
study the team’s performance.

There are a great number of plays
to learn; they must be done with speed
and precision. This is a time consum-
ing task, because it involves perfecting
the movements of every player. Even
after four years of high school foot-
ball and four years of college football,
it is safe to say that few players, if
any, know all the rules of the game.
Much time must be devoted to key
players, particularly quarterbacks, to
teach the governing rules so as to take
advantage of the knowledge when
strategy is involved. The elements
must be so well mastered that the key
men have time to analyze opponent’s
weaknesses, playing time left, wind
velocity‘and direction and the count-
less other factors which may weigh in
the balance of victory.

Granting that these conditions be
met, who will serve as opponents for
our football team? Would we play small
engineering schools and colleges of art
and literature, or those on our present
baseball and basketball schedules?
Would we want to take on as many as
six to eight games a season?

If you think we can tackle “big time
class A” teams, you had better be pre—
pared to add sports public relations
personnel, many more coaches, scouts
of the opposition and of local high
school talent, a ‘ticket department, a
stadium and its maintenance crews,
scholarships for excellent players,
salaries for the players, and, oh, yes,
we must have a schedule. We cannot

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THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT this
week was an inspiring program. I have
never seen so many Techawks give such
silent, attentive tribute to a perform-
ance as they gave when listening to the
moving “Adoramus Te" sung by the
glee club.

At first, the audience was quiet in be-
tween, numbers, but then spontaneous
enthusiastic applause delayed the pro-
w gram. It was evident
that the program was
i going to run overtime
fl as 2 pm. neared. A
few minutes after the
hour, some of the au-
dience made a noisy
exit, causing Mr.
Erickson to stop
3,“, abruptly and ask for

quiet. This is the third
all—school function at which such a lack
of courtesy has been demonstrated.

It would be nice to have more time
available to the Christmas concert. The
program is so worthwhile it’s a shame
we can’t have the program run into the
next hour.

This conflicts with instructor’s plans,
however, in making full use of the hours
remaining before the “vacation feeling”
sets in. Last year, the academic deans
bore the .brunt of faculty wrath for
permitting what were considered too
many dismissed classes. If they all con
joyed- the music as much as I did, how-

   
  
 

ever, an exception might be made for’

the. Christmas concert.

ORCHIDS to Campus Players for
last week’s terrific dramatic perform-
ance. Theirs has been the most suc-
cessfully managed student entertain-
ment this semester. Besides being a
good show, it is a hopeful break in the
succession of student socials which
have not done well at the box office.

FOOTBALL ENTHUSIASTS may be
just a bit calmer in their cries for a
team at Illinois Tech when they have
finished the second article on the subL
ject by “Uncle John” Schommer this
week. Actually, the information is much
condensed from the detail it could take
in a longer series. But who wants much
more detail when the half million dol-
lars needed to field a team is enough
to stop us cold? Another warning as to
the tremendous cost involved could be
taken from the withdrawal of Wash—
ington University, St. Louis, from the
football arena. Their team reputedly
lost them $100,000 last year. I don’t
think that our football enthusiasts want
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I have a plan for making exams more,
comprehensive. In cursory discussions
with many students on campus, I find
that the plan is agreeable to most.

In all engineering courses, and closely
related ones, such as BE, math, and in
general, those courses that do not rely
on essay type tests, I suggest that a
minimum of 5 tests be given during the
semester, including the final. Actually,
any amount from 5 to 7 would be nearly
ideal. ,

These are my reasons, as are well
known by most students:

The fewer the tests the more
material must be recalled precisely
by the student for each test.

There comes a time in every stu-
dent’s semester when he doesn’t
feel up to snuff and may write a bad
test. Adequate tests during the
semester may smooth out his aver-
age.

Giving the sturdent less to remem-
ber between quimzes will cut down
on cheating tendencies, which ap-
parently are still! rampant.

Decreasing the tension of some
students who are in dread of quali-
fying for the second reason. *
Thisis only a partial list that could

probably be supplemented by many
students. However, I think that this
list is inclusive enough. There are a
few non—thinking students (there are
creatures like this) who howl every time
a quiz is announced by the instructor.
I don’t think they know that they are
cutting their own throats as well as
the larynxes of their fellows.

Think it over.

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father with the inevitable question,
“Where did I come from?” The father
had been expecting to hear the question
for some time and was fully prepared.
When, he finished his thorough and
factual explanation an hour later, he
asked his son “Why did you want to
know where you came from?”

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Johnny, comes from Toledo, and I
wanted to know where I came from."

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drinking,” lectured the police ser~
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a struggling young engineer."

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Jean: “Yeah. . .He was struggling in
the arms of her father and brother."

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Her comment: On the first, there went
my dollar lunches; on the second, my
nylon hose; and on the third, my ama-
teur standing.

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University of Glasgow experi-
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childbirth. When he was knighted
for his outstanding work, it was
suggested that has adopt as a coat of
arms, in commemoration of his
work, “a wee naked bairn” with the
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