Dearborn High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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General Athletic Review Athletics are to a school what the framework is to a building. They are the very foundations upon which the modern system of education is built. Success in this field is measured not by a winning percentage of games after a year of endeavor, but by the results achieved with the material on hand. At times a school will become loaded with natural born athletes who need little or no training to make a success- ful team. Then there are the lean years when there is a noticeable lack of material for the making of a successful team. Success must be measured by the results attained with the material on hand. Each sport has a special feature of its own without which no school could be com- plete. Football tests the ability to think quickly. Basketball teaches sportmanship and teamplay. Baseball brings out individuality and Track fosters the competitive spirit. Athletics are coming into their own, slowly but surely the vital part which they play in school training is being recognized. Dearborn people early recognized the value of athletic training and the result is that the coaching staff ranks with the best in the state. Athletics tend to act as a spur to better scholarship, if a strict code of eligibility is enforced. Most athletes are athletes, not scholars; but when they find it necessary, they become worthy students. At the beginning of this year, a state High School Director of Athletics, with com- plete control was appointed by the state. So while the strict eligibility code last year made it a losing year. Dearborn High is now, far better off than those schools that are being compelled to forfeit games and remake teams in mid-season because of the use of ineligible players. Last year was a critical period for the varsity teams of this school but reconstruction upon a “rock bottom” was the basis of the rebuilding process. Because of the carefully planned building up process of last year, under the skillful guidance of Coach Foy, Dearborn is once again enjoying the athletic prestige handed down to us from former winners for preservation. The teams that are to come, their type of play, their ideals and their sportmanship, or lack of it, are molded by the Coach. And as the Coach is, so will his team be. Athletics have a great present and a greater future. It is written that with the passing of time and the constancy of practice will come perfection, and with perfection will come a knowledge and understanding of the principles—and the principles are those things which give athletics their ever increasing popularity. 26