Football ’93 Preview : On-the-Job Training Works Wonders

Century Coach Bill Brown increased his players’ interest in school. He did so by getting them jobs.

Brown got 10 varsity players jobs with a fence company this summer. But one day of honest labor was enough.

“They showed up for summer league that night and their clothes were torn, their hands were blistered and they looked like they’d been on a 30-mile run,” Brown said. “They said, ‘Coach, why did you do that to us?’ I told them you either get an education or you can look forward to that type of work.

“That sure raised our team GPA. You’ve never seen so many kids wanting to get into summer school. I think I doubled the enrollment in Algebra II.”