Jordan Says Youths Shun Rough Sports

Youth is continuing to neglect football and other healthful contact sports to the detriment of its future," Coach Lioyd Jordan said Saturday.

Jordan spoke before members of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council at a Harvard Club luncheon meeting. He stressed the importance of athletics in a boy's education and the molding of his character.

"You (the coaches) are no longer supervisors but actually teachers," he said. "Physical and mental conditioning and the leaching of teamwork, confidence and adaptability are the four broad possibilities for the coach to teach his pupils to help him in college, the service, and life," he added.