Cissna High School - Review Yearbook (Cissna Park, IL)

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I I I I I I I I I I 1 KI I I ,. an , 1 'QMS gi: giyf- I I I I i , -. f ugulGfI,,Ifb'.2ig,j,yI9:I X - A X Ili 3 -Q1 Wwlxg , I, I lixiii .f'f, ' f ft lYJ 'w' If ' 4 we vw 'fe- Ilg 'V ' Xe' x, ,,,- WY, gg 1 THE HONOR OF THE PLAYING FIELD Many of the great lessons of life come from the games we play in youth. The great healthful games are those played out-of-doors. Seek first the Kingdom of Out-of Doors, the philosophy of games seems to say, and you will find health and pleasure there. In the playing field and on the river we should seek, and we may find, a strong arm, a sure aim, a steady eye, and dignity of bearing. One of the first rules of games is to lay the foundation of a full and splendid manhood, and we should keep, as one of the mottoes of our outdoor life, the thought that a noble mind should live in a noble body. We should play a game for its own sake, never spoiling the spirit of all true games, or lowering the dignity of all true manhood, by playing it for profit, at the expense of somebody else. If a game is not interesting enough in itself we should leave it alone We should scorn to break the great rule of Fair Play by playing for a baser motive than the pure love of the game. Play the game for the game, and for nothing but the game. Our games are our own lessons in noble things. The playing field is in truth the High School of life. It is there we find the great distinctive qualities that mark the men of the English-speaking race all over the world. No American boy can be healthy and whole and miss the laws of honor. They ring through every school that is worth the stuff it is built of g they are blazoned as in letters of fire over every playing field worth walking on. They are among the oldest things in the world, and they will last as long as the human race. Even in the olden days when men's sense of honor was curiously twisted, so that only a duel sould satisfy it, a man would not take a mean advantage of the enemy he was about to kill, but would measure swords with him to see that the chances were equal and the fight was fair. And always at the bottom of all true ideas of sport, however men may for- get it, is the great maxim, A fair field and no favor. We must think of the game and not of ourselves. That game is lost in which one member of the team seeks his own glory. The unity of all for a single cause, each playing his part for the general end, is the condition without which no game is won. Chivalry, the surrender of self, obedience to the law that holds the team together-these things grow naturally with every game we play, and we should cherish them as a part of ourselves. We should be staunch and loyal and true 5 our comrades must be able to rely on us. If we are loyal to our team, to our school, we shall be loyal to our town and to ourbcountrgy gg the very beginnings of our patriotism lie in our games. I I 1926 IPAGE 551