Now this is the law of the jungle- as old and as true as the sky. And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, But the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forth and back. For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. -Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book
Things Fall Apart TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler Yeats
[IF] If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling
We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while... We wear the mask. We smile, but O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! -Paul Lawerence Dunbar
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To the coaches that tell their Defensive Line to cut the Offensive Line in order to stop the Double Wing ------- I have heard from some coaches who are having trouble - once again - with what seems to be the least-enforced rule in the game - defensive players who grab or tackle your pulling linemen. Some of the coaches have even said that officials (!) told them it was legal! Now, I suppose there is not a lot we can do about opposing coaches who don't know the rule, or worse, unethical ones who do know the rule and go ahead and cheat anyhow; but as for the officials... RULE 9, SECTION 2, ARTICLE 3 - "A defensive player shall not (c) use his hands or arms to hook, lock, clamp, grasp, encircle or hold in an effort to restrain an opponent other than the runner." Seems pretty clear-cut to me, unless Referee Clinton tries to say it "depends on your definition of the word 'not.'" It's in the 1999 NFHS rule book, as it has been for years. You might want to keep a copy in your pocket, with page 54 marked for quick reference. (You know you're in trouble if you hand the rule book to the official and he says, "what's this?")-From WWW.COACHWYATT.COM