A Yellow Springs Blog: Rocky & Pee Wee: Pigskin Roundup

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Rocky & Pee Wee: Pigskin Roundup

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I wish they'd give up. It's embarrassing. Yellow Springs kids are good at soccer and distance running, and not much else in terms of sports...which is fine, because soccer and distance running seem to be correlated with more cerebral students.; August 8, 2011 at 7:34 AM
Kay Reimers said...: YS schools are top heavy with students with a keen sense of survival. I saw the husky kids the Christian schools bused in and I swear there were some ringers in the bunch. We always seemed to have one or two students limping off the field all banged up at every game. I don't understand why but the visitor team always had a marching band standing by and we had the medics.; August 8, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Les Groby said...: Our kids keep the medics plenty busy at the soccer games, too, so I don't think survival instincts are the main problem. Students at the small, rural Christian schools we play against (because few other schools are so small anymore) generally have fewer activities available to them than Yellow Springs offers, so they have higher participation rates in those that they have, such as football and marching band. Our kids just have too may options for us to be able to sustain a football team out of such a small student population.

"distance running seem(s) to be correlated with more cerebral students."

Distance running is also "correlated" with students who aren't very good at working cooperatively with others. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...; August 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM

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