Here are some excerpts from Bill’s eleven-page article on Cross Country. This article is distributed by him to all prospective track athletes. It contains some prime material – suggestions that will fit into any athletic program in any sport. Read More
So-called staleness may come from a mental complex – a lack of being able to concentrate 100% on the game. It could be trouble at home or with the girlfriend, or worry over studies, or squad friction. Read More
Part of your job, as a high school coach, is the proper care and treatment of the athletic injuries incurred by your athletes. In accepting the job of coaching sports you automatically accept the responsibility of prompt injury care for your boys.
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The job of being a trainer is more than the application of tape and the dressing of wounds.
Training includes many separate things – hard work, psychology, the teaching of infinite cleanliness, the development of character, the delicate deflation of ego and encouragement to the timid, an example of loyalty to the department, the promotion of teamwork, the prevention of over enthusiasm and overconfidence, and the raising of morale in adversity.
If you should build or remodel,don’t have your equipment room next to the showers.
Keep after your athletes to drink more water in winter – particularly on weekends.
We find some southern coaches storing football shoes in plastic and paper bags. They “Black Magic” the shoes, dust some Foot and Body Powder into them, then put them in the bag for storage.
Nitrotan Spray is a correct treatment for sunburn. Spray burned areas three times, at 30 minute intervals. Read More
For Basketball…
Any Formula for Top Basketball Must Include a Foundation of Basic Fundamentals.
We suggest the following as a part of your daily routine: Read More
Tournament Physician, National Junior College Basketball Tournament
A few words concerning the “needling” of joints and soft tissues with anesthetic agents. Read More
Spoon Heel Cups…To Prevent “Stone Bruise”
One day I found one of our high jumpers, by the name of Roberts, making a “heel cup.” He had cut the handle off of a serving spoon and was shaping the oval bowl to fit his heel.
The idea has now spread to other members of our track squad and to several football players who complained about heel cleats pressing up against the bone and causing pain.
Since that time the idea has spread to several of the Phoenix high schools. Read More
Booing the Referee
Coach E.S. Liston of Baker University has a convincing way of handling crowds at home games. When a referee’s decision is questioned by the audience with the customary “boo,” Liston stops the game and makes a speech to the stands. Quoting from the Topeka Capital, we reprint his remarks... Read More
Teach Slow Motion Exercises
At the National Coaches meeting, one point was stressed which made quite an impression on a number of the members present: that was the benefit of slow motion pictures for teaching plays and exercises.
It was also pointed out that any coach could teach slow motion or have his athletes go through it, timing all of the exercises, or even plays, by slow motion in order to gain a thorough understanding and an exactness of detail of execution. Read More