The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-21
NO MORE MONOPOLY.
Football Skill and Popularity
Becoming Widespread.
WEST SOON TO RIVAL EAST.
Stanford University Gets Walter Camp
Tor . Cosch-Thanksgiving Day
Gsme In Seattle.

The day Of exclusiveness in football has
passed. Time was when Yale. Harvard
and Princeton stood alone in a class of
their own. No matches but theirs excited
more than local interest and the game was
not widespread. The events of the past
few weeks have changed this. New foe
men worthy of the steel of the football
giants have sprung up, while from ocean
to ocean, from lakes to gulf. the sport is
making rapid advances in popularity.
The biggest surprise was Princeton's de-
feat by the University of Pennsylvania.
On top OF this Harvard had hard work to
defeat Cornell and again had narrow es-
cape from beating by the Boston Athletic
Club Finally Yale's desperate fight to
down Harvard by small score. added to
these other events, gives unmistakable
evidence that football skill and supremacy
is not long to be kept confined within such
small bounds.
1t is common talk East that Princeton's
overthrow by Pennsylvania will result in
the breaking up of the college league. con-
sistlng of Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania
and Wesleyan. Under the present state
OF affairs Yale has to play three great
teams-Harvard, Princeton and Pennsyl-
vania-within two weeks, and must defeat
each of them to maintain supremacy.
Harvard, which is outside of the league, has
only to win from Yale in order to be on
top. 1t is not improbable that there will
be new league formed of Yale, Harvard,
Princeton and Pennsylvania, or perhaps
Cornell. At any rate, Yale will do some
thing to protect herself against the present
unequal state Of affairs in having to fight
so many strong rivals and in being COM
PEELED to beat all of them in order to stay
in the lead.
The development of football strength is
not being confined to the East, which
alone for years supported the game. The
Western colleges are already beginning to
talk of measuring strength with Yale or
Harvard or Princeton, and there seems to
be something uponswhich to base the con-
fident assertions they make. Minnesota,
which furnished "Pudge" Heffeltinger to
Yale and is the home of other great
players, boasts of having at its state uni
versity the best team in the West. On
Thanksgiving day it will line up against
Cornell at Minneapolis. and the home
team will have plenty of backing. The
result of the game will furnish basis
upon which to compute the relative
strength of the East and West. If the
latter keeps on advancing at its present
rapid gait the time seems not far off when
the great matches will be between the
representatives of two sections of the cOun-
try, with journey of hundreds or per-
haps thousands OF miles needed to bring
the teams together.
Even in the country south of Mason and
Dixon's line, whose youth have always
been considered as too listless to take
hold of vigorous outdoor sports, football
is booming. Every state university of the
South and all the other important institu-
tons of learning have their teams. and
many of them good ones. too. What it
can produce in the way of talent is illus
trated by the cases Of "Bum" McClung, of
Yale, and Jesse Riggs and the Poes, Of
Princeton. A keen rivalry for the cham
pionship of Dixie has sprung up and
promises long life to the sport. The team
OF the University of the South, at
Suwanee, Tenn, has just completed a sue.
cessful tour through several states playing
matches, and other colleges are going to
follow its lead.
The same conditions obtain in the far
West. California has teams at most of its
institutions of learning and in its largest
towns. Even at Los Angeles, where the
mild climate seems hardly capable of
squirting one up to football. there is plenty
of interest in the sport. At Stanford uni
versity the enthusiasm has reached such a
pitch that Walter Camp, the famous Yale
coach, will be brought clear across the
continent to prepare the team for its an
nual match with Berkeley college, on
December IA. The latter is also telegraph
ing East for a first-class coach. Verify,
the golden era of football is at hand