The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories/Talks with a Kid Brother/Trying for the Team

What of it—what if you couldn't make the team? What's that got to do with it? That isn't the reason I wanted you to go in for athletics. Why didn't you fight it out! The chief benefit of athletics is to teach you to quit being a quitter. Last fall when you left off trying for the Freshman eleven I felt sorry, but you put it on the ground of your studies and said you'd come out when the call for baseball candidates was issued in the early spring. But your name isn't in the list published in the paper. You haven't the face to blame it on your studies this time, Dick; I have seen your reports! You are afraid of being laughed at; that's what's the matter.
Did you ever hear about the case of big, fatty Simon? He was laughed at. They called him Simple Simon. He was here in the early days of football, before the Rugby ​game had spread all over the country. He weighed, about two hundred and eighty pounds, mostly fat, and I don't suppose he had ever seen a canvas jacket until the day he entered college and waddled down to the field along with a lot of other green Freshmen to look at the football practice. It interested him. He was so much interested that he paid no attention to the Sophomo

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