Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-22

generally four or six. it il easily seen how large
scores are run up. Thus a score of twenty four
may mean only four different plays and score
OF nifty or sixty to nought in foot ball does not
necessarily indicate anything like as sided
game as niue to nought would in base ball.
IL IS hardly to be expected of course, that
local teams and teams from athletic clubs can
ever put up very satisfactory game against
the great colleges, where so much time and
attention are given to the game where a hun
dred men may be trying for places on the team
and most thorough and systematic course of
training is followed. college team plays every
day either with some other college or club or
with second eleven, which al ways furnishes sub
stitntes when needed on the Varsity. But. taking
all things into consideration, the progress that
many outside teams have made is really sur
prlslng, and proves that the day is past when
foot ball was merely an intercollegiate sport.
INTEREST IN THE GAME HERE.
Nowhere, perhaps, has the interest taken in
foot ball grown as rapidly as it has here in
Washington. Last fall. only little more than
a year ago. teams from Johns Hopkins and
Lehigh universities played a match game in
TINS CITY, and that was one OF the first if not the
nrst. game OF much general interest that was
played here. Now there are a number of
teams, and good Ones too, that play with each
other and against teams from other cities both
at home and abroad. OF these there are three that
are more impor ant than the rest-ths Column
Georgetown College team. Besides these
there are the Emersons and the Columbian
University teams, and the students at the High
School have been busy of late trying to Or
ganize three class elevens and from these to
pick school eleven. 1t is to be hoped they
| will be successful in their efforts for in the
years gone by the High School has played a
very creditable game.
TIE KENDALLs' ELEVEN.
In point OF age the team from the National
Deaf-mute College at Kendall Green is proba.
bly, the one that can claim precedence The
| Kendall Athletic Association and its prede.
| cessor, the Kendall Foot Ball Club have had
an organized team since the fall of 1877. Prior
to that time the students at Kendall Green had
| played the Rugby game among themselves and
incidentally had succeeded in breaking tutors
| nose and sophomore's collar bone. These ac-
cidents, however. were not sufficiently serious
| to place the game on Q very secure founda.
] ton. In the fall of 1877 the frs,
match game was played. the opposing team
being one from the undergraduates of Colum
bian University. Fifteen men played on q side
and the game was royal scramble. The scene
Of the battle was the old grounds Of the college
AZ Mount Pleasant, and the game ended up by
the majority of the two teams in full chase
after the ball, falling promiscuously into 9
large areaway near the college entrance. Tho
under the veil Of time, but the game itself wal
| probably the frst match game ever played
in the District. The following season the
team profted by the coaching OF
Mr.; J. J. Chicksring, an old Amherst player
and that year and for several years after regu.
lar games were played between the kendalli
and picked eleven made up of college men
home for the holidays, and including such men
as the Hsrlans OF Princeton, Noble Of Harvard
Chickering Of Amherst. Angel and Denison OF
the University Of Vermont and Q number OF
good players from Yale and other colleges.
Old High School boys remember Mr. Angel
as player OF great skill, grit and endurance
He was teacher at the High School and or
| ganized a team there. Under his training and
supervision foot ball became very popular.
AN xTElEERHHoE sY TIE FACULTY.
| By such means as these the Ksndalls kept
the ball rolling in the early daya Later on the
naval cadets and Johns Hopkins put teams in
| the held and the Kendalls tackled them with
varying success. Their efforts to devotion the
game we're stopped at one time by decree OF
the faculty forbidding games with outsidsrs on
seeeuns ct Ne dangers involved IN The game.