Excerpt from Football for Public and Player

Twenty years of football, as player - in an humble capacity, albeit begun under the best of coaching - spectator on the side line or in the stand, and as a sporting writer, have taught me that of all those who are bound up in the most fascinating of school and college games, the spectators form the class that has suffered the most serious neglect. Football coaches are usually secretive persons, and they have succeeded in bewildering the man in the stand even when failing to outwit the man on the field. It is the spectator who needs the coaching nowadays, and it is in the hope of clearing away for his benefit and that of the uncoached schoolboy much of the mystery that has been deftly thrown around the game by those in close touch with the great football universities that this book is offered to a sometimes puzzled football public.

For any particular system or institution the author holds no brief, for years of careful analysis of the big games have convinced him that no one football system has been able to comer all the gridiron knowledge in the country, and that the gridiron leaders are treading practically the same paths nowadays, and building for the future in the main upon principles that are considered sound by the master minds of football.

There are both strategy and tactics in football as in war - the season is a campaign, the big game a battle. These are the salient features that lift the game out of the ruck of sport to the plane it now occupies.

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