Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-09-23
FOOTBALL WILL BOOM.
(ChicaeO NewS-RecOrd

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college year is a revival of interest in
football. This game has become the
American college game. A few years
| ago it was confined to the east, but now
| it is national.
Every college in the United States of
| any size will have a football team in a
| few weeks In the west the sport was
slow in obtaining a foothold. but it's
| advancement after once getting started
has been rapid. This year such insti-
| tutions as the Northwestern and Lake
! Forest, the University of Michigan.
that at Champaign, Wisconsin Univer-
sity and Beloit College, DePauw and
+! Purdue in Indiana and many others
| throughout the west will eXpend hun
| dreds and even thousands of dollars
each in getting finely trained football
teams on the field of action. The out
| lay is incurred in the engagement of
competent men to coach the team, the
fitting up of grounds, uniforms, etc.
The tiISt-class football coach gets a
salary that is to be enyied. He is, Of
! course, a college graduate and is gen
orally engaged in business which he
cannot fOrSalie even temporarily eX-
cept for a considerable inducement
Such men as Donnelly, Crawford Ames
: and others can get SO day and all
! expenses during the football season
if they want to give their time to the
work, and most of them do 50 because
they are thoroughly interested in the
game. And they are worth it, mas
much as proper coaching is of the ut
most Importance to the success of any
team.
Football has been condemned many
| times principally because of its rough
! ness-and yet the weight of argument
is in favor Of the pastime. Its
friends pronounce it Il game for de-
yeloping not merely muscles but charac-
ter. Dr.. Arnold, the famous head mas
ter ut Rugby, said not long ago, in
speaking of football, that the men who
had excelled in football at Rugby were
at that time the rulers of the British
, empire, not only at home but in India
and everywhere. He spoke very high
ly of the value of the game in develop
ing those traits Of character which
were needed in fighting the battles of
| life. Many American educators share
Dr. Arnolds opinion Of the game and
think that While it has some dangers
they do not offset its benefits
Much as the game is criticised in this
country, it does not compare in rough
ness with the English game The
American intercollegiate rules, which
govern all the college games in the
United States, are only the Rugby
rules in 4 modified form. but so modi-
fled that the game is deprived Of half
its rOughness and danger
In fact, there can be but little that
is Objectionable if the referee is com
| petent and if his authority is sut1i-
GENTLY broad. The trouble with such
games as the Chicago Cornell affair of
last fall was that the referee felt loath
TO exercise the power invested in him
| by the rules. In the Yale-Haryard
game played on the same day-the big
@cSt and most scientific contest of the
| year-no player was hurt on either side.
IN the cast, where the game is thor
ouShly established and where the play
ing IS OF the highest order, smuggling and
anything like TOWdyiSm has gradually
decreasing, because public sentiment is
! against it, and the player who INDUCES
i'll it becomes unpopular and ACQUIRES
Il reputation which is not enviable.
Such will s0on be the case in the west
cIn schools. Contestants will learn
| that control Of the temper is one of the
essentials Of the game and referees will
nelp by enforcing the rules to the letter.
The game when played strictly &C
coroing to the rules affords plenty of
opportunity to test the nerve of the
contestants, and is always full enough
OF personal risk to he at least eXhiIa-
rating without requiring that players
indulge i'll pugilistic encounters at in
tervals in the sport.
! Never was there so much prOSnnct
| OF booming football season in Chicago
| as at the present time The Univer-
| Slty club will take the same interest in
the sport that it has for several years
which means that it will do all in it's
power to make it popular in Chicago.
| The Northwestern and the Lake Forest
| universities will make it lively in the
| SUBURBS as of yOre, and the two new
features are in the field which will
help to set the ball rolling more vigor-
| Dusty than ever. These are the new
ChicaSo University, to open next
month, and the new Chicago Athletic
club, which will organize a strong team
| under the management of the wen
known Yale player, Billy" Crawford.
A A. Stagg, 1ale's famous athlete,
| comes to the new university and VIII
not allow football interest there to go
unculdVated. The Athletic club team
| which Mr.. Crawford is organizing has
already planned Il trip east. during
winch it will play Harvard. Yale
Princeton and one or two other col
| leges.
Inc team from the University club
will probably be known in the future
| as the 'All-Universities." in order to
] distinguish it from the Chicago Uni
Verslty team. Messrs. James S. Harlan.
Max Baird. w. A McLaren and Lock
! wood Honore are the committee of the
I University club in whose hands the
! football interests for this year are
! placed. and they will have a confer
! ence in short time.
| Mr.. Harlan is Il son of Judge Harlan
| OF the supreme court He and his
| brother, John NJ. Harlan. both of whom
are successful young Chicago lawyers,
We're two of plinceton'S most noted