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The Industrial-NOrffidl EXDOIICilt Vol.,. 2 ABERDEEN, S. D., DECEMBER, 1903 No. 2 oteg Character and Athletics otot Emmett McKenna The excitement of the football struggles is over for the season and as the dust rises from the gridiron, we have time to consider again the nature of the sport and the part it takes in forming a strong character. Athletics, like all live subjects, is one upon which all authorities do not agree, and yet we cannot believe that any clear thinking person would deny, that anything which tends to make our fellows more complete and active, that develops all there is in one is not worth the experiment. There is nothing connected with the life of a boy or a young man which reveals his character so much as the sports or games in which he engages. He may be taught constantly in the school or home, but if you wish to see his real character then you must go to the playground, where engaged in ac-tive sports, when he is a member of a team opposing another team and ex-erting every human effort to be suc-cessful in the contest. All the nobleness, the generosity, the truthfulness or fairness of charac-ter on the one hand, and on the other the viciousness, the meanness, the trickery, the dishonesty are brought forth. Individual competition is not so likely to show this. It requires the team work, the acting in concert with others against another team, un-reservedly to bring out these qualities. Footabll is not a one man's game, but one in which all members of the team must work in perfect unison, each man is his own general and mar-shalls all his forces when and where they will be the most effective. It re-quires skill and thought on the part of each player and every move or maneu-ver must be thoughtfully studied, and planned with the greatest of care. It may be the desire of the individ-ual to make a good impression upon an older person whom he khows is watching him and for a time he will control himself, but sooner or later he reveals his true self, he shows his character. You meet boys and young men in many different ways, but not any of these ways brings out the true character as the contest in their sports. Such contests are as valuable and even more so, as developers of char-acter as they are developers of muscle. A noble, generous character should be and can be the result of engaging in friendly contests free from any money consideration. The man who can go upon and play through a hard active game without taking unfair ad-vantage of an opponent, without thought of himself and only of his team's success, can take his defeat good-naturedly and has received a training in his boyhood and youth that will be invaluable to him in his after life.
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Title | The Exponent, 1903-12-01 |
Subject | Northern State University--Periodicals; Northern State University--Students--Newspapers; College Newspapers; Northern State College -- Periodicals |
Description | Periodical, college newspaper |
Publisher | Northern State University |
Date of creation | 1903-12-01 |
Collection | NSU History Collection |
Type | Text |
Identifier | exp-1903-12-01 |
Rights | ©Beulah Williams Library Archives and Special Collections |
Date Digital | 2013/03/27 |
Language | English |
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Title | Page 1 |
Transcription | The Industrial-NOrffidl EXDOIICilt Vol.,. 2 ABERDEEN, S. D., DECEMBER, 1903 No. 2 oteg Character and Athletics otot Emmett McKenna The excitement of the football struggles is over for the season and as the dust rises from the gridiron, we have time to consider again the nature of the sport and the part it takes in forming a strong character. Athletics, like all live subjects, is one upon which all authorities do not agree, and yet we cannot believe that any clear thinking person would deny, that anything which tends to make our fellows more complete and active, that develops all there is in one is not worth the experiment. There is nothing connected with the life of a boy or a young man which reveals his character so much as the sports or games in which he engages. He may be taught constantly in the school or home, but if you wish to see his real character then you must go to the playground, where engaged in ac-tive sports, when he is a member of a team opposing another team and ex-erting every human effort to be suc-cessful in the contest. All the nobleness, the generosity, the truthfulness or fairness of charac-ter on the one hand, and on the other the viciousness, the meanness, the trickery, the dishonesty are brought forth. Individual competition is not so likely to show this. It requires the team work, the acting in concert with others against another team, un-reservedly to bring out these qualities. Footabll is not a one man's game, but one in which all members of the team must work in perfect unison, each man is his own general and mar-shalls all his forces when and where they will be the most effective. It re-quires skill and thought on the part of each player and every move or maneu-ver must be thoughtfully studied, and planned with the greatest of care. It may be the desire of the individ-ual to make a good impression upon an older person whom he khows is watching him and for a time he will control himself, but sooner or later he reveals his true self, he shows his character. You meet boys and young men in many different ways, but not any of these ways brings out the true character as the contest in their sports. Such contests are as valuable and even more so, as developers of char-acter as they are developers of muscle. A noble, generous character should be and can be the result of engaging in friendly contests free from any money consideration. The man who can go upon and play through a hard active game without taking unfair ad-vantage of an opponent, without thought of himself and only of his team's success, can take his defeat good-naturedly and has received a training in his boyhood and youth that will be invaluable to him in his after life. |
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