Excerpt from Football
In the treatment of the many questions considered in these pages, it has not been possible to lay down arbitrary lines, or to give unqualified advice. The wider knowledge which has come with the development of the modern game has greatly multiplied the possibilities of every situation. Rarely can any question be now answered by the categorical imperative.
The difficulty is further increased in this volume by the constant necessity of discriminating between different grades of players. The conditions which exist with a "Varsity team are not present in the team of a preparatory school. The argument for the one is not the argument for the other. The advice must be constantly qualified.
This volume is published in the hope that it may aid in the development of American football, and more especially that it may encourage a scientific study of the game. The great popularity of this sport is not without its reasonable warrant. It calls out not merely the qualities which make the soldier, - bravery, endurance, obedience, self-control, - but equally that mental acumen which makes the successful man in any of the affairs of life - perception, discrimination, and judgment.
To the casual observer, football doubtless presents merely the spectacle of vigorous physical exercise. But a deeper insight will discover the steady development of those other qualities which make the complete man - quick determination, instant obedience, self-reliance, physical bravery.
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