The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-14
FOOTBALL WR Is ON.
Seattle and TacoTa Teams to
Do Fierce attic.
THE THANKsGIvtc DAY GAME.
knights Of the Csvas Jacket Making
Preparations fothe Fray-Gossip
Of II Sport.

The future of ,he American Rugby
came of football the Pacific Northwest
l. assured. La Saturdays match at
Tacoma decided that beyond a doubt.
When men anewomen Of the very best
clement turn OF in great numbers, when
nrominent bussess and professional men
Jack down on ne held to cheer and yell,
to wave flags and blow fog horns, the
signs are uraistakabie. There is the
cronping out,f the Yale-Harvard-P Prince
ton spirit, wlch has made the matches
between the:racks representing these coll
lagos the featest athletic events that
America hs ever seen. Never another
attraction nat has drawn 10000 people to
sit in a cid November rain to witness
twenty-five sturdy young Trojans
battle fr glory. And these con-
ditions promise to be repeated on
the Psifc coast in proportion to
the sparer population. 1t is not risking
much prophesy that for years to come
Seattlesnd Tacoma will turn out each a
small army to cheer their respective
CHAMPIONS in the tourney between the
knigits Of the canvas jacket.
While the game at Tacoma could not
rankin playing skill with the famous bat.
ties # the great Eastern colleges, it had
yetao lack of the snap and grim deter
miiation that lends the greatest fascina.
tid1 to the football game as a spectacle.
Irieed. the display of sand" consider
ing the small opportunities for practice
nd the poor condition of many Of
ne players, was remarkable. The
most severe criticism of the game
was the extent to which Slug
sng" vas carried and the failure of
duty by the referee in allowing it. In an
earnest football rattle much of this kind
Of work is to be expected, but there is al
rays limit, aud it is time to call q halt
when there is such an occurrence as hap.
rned in Saturdays game, in which one
q the Tacoma players deliberately struck
tAeuptain of the Seattle team with his
fstis an eye that had already been seri-
oaay damaged by deep cut directly over
Il Such things, occurring as they do in
he heat OF battle, are to an extent miti-
gated, but even in the thick of the fray
there should be control OF temper, and,
moreover, referee who will promptly
dsqualify players seeking to disable an
opponent with no other end in view than
10 put him out of the game.
Seattle's defeat at Tacoma means that
the return match in this city on Thanks
giving day will be for blood. Local pride
has been aroused. Neither town can
brook defeat tamely, and this will work
great good to the game. That the Seattle
team was greatly weakened by lack of
practice is indisputable, and the result on
last Saturday will serve to bring forward
remedy. In the space between now and
thanksgiving there promises to be plenty
dgood hard work. 1t is likely that there
will be new talent to furnish candidates
for places on the team, and when it lines
up for its next game there ought to be q
great improvement. Meantime Tacoma
cannot. of course, afford to be idle after
such hard-ea.ned victory. and may also
be expected to do some lively training. If
Madison street park does not on Thanks
giving day see one of the largest, most en-
thusiastic crowds of its history, then no
reliance is to be placed in premonitory
symptoms.