The Turpen poetry society
Nothing is off limits when it comes to getting prepared for big games.
Some rock out to sports anthems. Some bounce to the latest beats. Others find their own personal zone and concentrate.
But football players at Bishop McGuinness and Heritage Hall have found a new way: poetry. And there's one poem in particular they can recite line-for-line any time, any place: "If” by Rudyard Kipling .
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