MAXIMS FOR FOOTBALLERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7728, 23 February 1909, Page 4

MAXIMS FOR FOOTBALLERS.

Throw yourself head and solo into the game. Always be kicking something; the football' when it is near enough, but kick something. A cool head is a good thing, but a hard one is better. Train yourself by having a butting match with a full-blooded goat. Practise running. Perhaps your creditors will help you during tho week. Save your skin. If you can't find it all at the end of the game, save what you can. Be tying a bootlace when there's a big man to head off. Insure yourself m a sound company. Don't get m arrears with your payments. Keep your policy m a safe place. Don't take it with you on to the field." In soft weather don't bother to wash between matches. You will get just as | badly soiled again next Saturday. Don't let your heart sink at the first rebuff. At the same time don't have it m your mouth all the while. Improve tho lonely hours of goalkeeping by reading a book or working a chess problem. Never show partiality. Always got tho referee into a scrimmage. ' It is shameful the way most teams leave him out m the cold. Take no notice of the referee's whistle; he blows it to keep warm while the rest of you work. Or perhaps he is musical. 'When ordered off the field for rough play, don't go. Stop and show the referee what rough play really means. —Newcastle Chronicle.