STL All Sports

A special note of congratulations is due each and every deserving coach who has recently made the grade to "Head Coach". You who have "arrived" undoubtedly have learned by coaching, perhaps more rapidly than you learned the game as a player. Certainly you have learned football more thoroughly than ever.

Yours is now the opportunity to assume full leadership for your players, your coaching staff and your organization's major image builder . . . the football team.

Perhaps you have become a defensive specialist. Then again you may consider yourself a prime offensive strategist. For the good of your team it may be well to forget that you ever were a specialist. Remember, that any man possessed of two hands will use them both to lift a heavy load. The job of "Head Coach" calls for carrying the heaviest of loads and it takes both offense and defense to lift any team to victory.

Players can intuitively spot a coach's lack of interest in their particular specialty and if the coach lets his old specialty color his words, deeds and reactions he will soon find that he has figuratively lost one of his two hands.
A sincere coach will try whenever he can honestly do so to give equal praise to the exploits of both his offensive and defensive players and spend nearly equal time with all of his first string units.