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ATHLETES'
FEATS
by
Sharon Hill
DP
Winning Isn't Everything
Competition is the way of life for man. He competes for his home,
his family, his work and everything around him but success eludes
him many times.
Athletics, itself, emphasizes competition that much more because
athletics is winning. But is winning everything?
The late V'ince Lombardi answered thai question by demanding
winning isn't everything, it is the only thing." Lombardi's successor,
George Allen, elaborated by saying "whenever one wins he grows a
little (inside) but when he loses, a little bit of him dies."
These maxims promote an ultimate means to one end winning.
This type of winning emphasis produces positive thinking but with no
alternatives. Winning, in the ultimate sense, is an unachievable status
of perfection. Perfection is complete excellence an abstraction
people can always strive for but never attain. In this day and age,
however, many athletic coaches are trying to literally apply
Lombardi's maxim to their teams' motivation and performance.
That is wrong . . . Agreed, the purpose of athletic competition is to
w in but to make winning paramount and to penalize the losers is
without reason. Surely anyone wanting to lose should not be in
athletics but by the same token those who cannot lose should also
curtail their competitive activities. One learns from his mistakes
which in turn makes him a better person. Thus, moderation is the
answer: one must seek to win but be able to learn and cope with his
mistakes as well.
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Ashland-Anderson game,
touchdown scamper was
on the field not because of
Boys P.E. Gains Aides
SOC seniors Marty Popp and
Rick Waddell are acting as
student teachers in the Boy's
P.E. department.
Popp. a Coos Bay resident
through high school, was named
MVP in the 1969 Shrine football
game. He also made All-State two
years in both football and basket
ball. Popp is now a four-year
letterman in basketball at SOC.
Waddell, 23, a lifelong Ashland
resident, attended AHS and
lettered as a center, linebacker
and placekicker in football; cen
ter and guard in basketball; and
utility-man in baseball. He will
graduate from SOC during the
winter term.
Popp and Waddell will be
serving as student teachers for
the early part of the school year.
Host So. Albany Tonight
Bears Vie For Second Win
Grizzly fans will witness a new
Ashland football team tonight at
8:(K) p.m. at Walter A. Phillips
field.
The team will be basically the
same in personal, but different in
style and game strategy.
After two unimpressive efforts
with a 12 to 9 win over Sunset, and
an escape w ith a 12 to 12 tie with
Anderson. California, last week.
Coach Lance Locke commented,
"that we had to change a few
things around."
Locke said, "tonight we will be
trying to get the ball to Dan
Johnson," he added, "if that
means throwing the ball, then we
will do just that."
Quarterback, will again be a
toss-up, with the decision be
tween starting Ken Whyte and
Kevin Drumdieck being made
today. Locke said, "both boys
have good arms, and are good
runners," saying, "we'll just
have to wait and see."
Locke said that South Albany,
"is a good team, that concen
trates on the pass." To contain
the pass, Locke commented that,
"we worked real hard on pass
rushing and defense this week."
Both are hoping to teach health
class after graduation.
Looking at how he could im
prove coaching at AHS, Waddell
says, "The idea of young coaches
is fine. I prefer the coach-athlete
division, like John Wrooden's of
UCLA, rather than the buddy
buddy relationship."
Popp was less specific. "There
are some things I see that I don't
like, but as a student teacher it's
not my position to scruntinize."
"The attitude of the individual
has changed," added Waddell.
"Athletics don't mean the same
as they used to."
Both aides would prefer
coach somewhere in Oregon
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Waddell. who cites himself as "a
faithful Grizzly follower," would
like to coach in Ashland.
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The Grizzly defensive unit keys
initial victory of the season 14 -
mainstay of the Grizzly success.
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Bringing a new sport into high
school requires a lot of prepara
tion and twice as much confidence.
The confidence is there and
the preparation has already be
gun as 21 girls work out for next
Tuesday's ground - breaking
volleyball match against Crater.
Coach Betty Kimball is quite
pleased with the team that is
being formed. The team has been
conditioning and working on skills
since the beginning of school.
"It looks good," says Kimball,
"we have quite a bit of potential.
Melinda Smith's height will be a
definite asset to the team.
The competition in Southern
Oregon was derived after a state
tournament two years ago when
Coed P.E. Offers Variety
Coed P.E. has long been looked
upon as not belonging to a high
school education program. This
year through the cooperation of
the students and the teachers a
new selective coed program will
be tested.
Students will have their choice
of two or three athletic areas
during a nine week period. Some
of these classes will be mixed,
according to the teacher's dis
cretion. For instance, the girls may
have a choice of flag football and
speed away or body conditioning.
The later is coed. The boys may
then be offered flag-football and
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Initial Action
there was a representative from
every district except District 6.
Women coaches from the So.
Oregon Conference got together
to formulate teams.
Volleyball matches consist of
the best two out of three games.
Each game lasts eight minutes or
(he first team to fifteen points.
Coach Kimball has problems
with referees. "We're going to try
to use girls from SOC for the first
few games."
Tuesday's match will be at
Ashland at 6:30 p.m.
"We might not be too prepared
for our first game." added Kim
ball. "But then again, being new
at it too, neither will Crater."
team-handball or coed bicycling
and archery. Students will spend,
for example, 4' a weeks on bi
cycling, then the last of the nine
weeks on archery.
P.E. teachers. Betty Kimball,
Sara Larson, Tim Brown and
Dick Copple, are given the op
portunity to teach the class they
are interested in and wish to
pursue. Commenting on the selective
system Brown said, "it gets rid of
the repetition for the students and
enables them to specialize in the
areas they are interested in
pursuing. Brown said, "the sys
tem also give the teachers an
opportunity to break from the
boredom of always teaching the
same classes."
Brown said, "the coed system
will be interesting, and a good
social experience."
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