Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-12

as the game became rougher and rough
er the players began too deYise costumes
that would protect their bodies, The
result is that the player OF to-day IS a
very we'll padded young man, and this
facts explains why comparatively so
few men are hurt when q dozen burly
young ~collegians form . pyarmld oil
legs, arms and writhing bodies on top
| OF them and the oblong ball.
Some critic has shown his contempt
for two words often abbreviated by
clothiers and restaurant keeper by franz
ing the sentence. gents wears pants.
He might have applied :he same state
ment TO football players. They do not
wear trousers, but pants, feArfully and
wonderfully made and padded like a
parlor car seat. They are OF heavy
white canvas and so thickly quilted az
the knees and hips that those portions
| OF the players anatomy are practically
armor clad. As will be seen by a glance
/ at the accompanying illustrations show
ing the bifurcated garments worn by
CAPTAIN Waters OF Harvard and ex-Cap-
tain King, Princeton's star player, the
pants are not remarks able for their
beauty. Kings bag as though the
Young Tiger were afflicted with enor-
nous corns on his knees, and those
worn by Waters suggest extraordinary
d~eformities.
Another valuable leg protector is the
shin guard borrowed from ~cricketers
and used by players IN the rush line. II
is made Of canvas or leather, buckles
around the leg between the knee and
ankle and saves the sensitive shins OF
the players from the painful effect Of
many q vicious or intentional kick.
The bane Of many an ambitious foot
bail players existence is his nose, and
as he desires to use 1t years after his
football days, be naturally desires to
to Keep it In a fair state OF preservation.
He is very careful Of it, but despite this
facts it persists In occasionally getting
bruised, spralned or broken. The re-
suit Is that many q player whose nose
Is either weak constitutionally or by
reason OF past adventures wear a nose
mask OF rubber, which while II cannot
be truthfully said to add materially to
his beauty, effectively protects his nasal
appendage and teeth.
Another orgon that causes football
players a great deal Of trouble is the
ear. 1t cannet be padded like q leg or
masked like a nose, because such pro-
| cedure would interfere with hearing the
| captains orders. The consequence 10
that, while few players lose their heads
during the heads during the crash Of
colliding rush lines, they now and then
come p~erIousIy neal to losing their ears.
Some Of them who have unusually gen.
erous and ambitious looking ears that
persist in looping outward at the top
like the sides Of q letter Y tie them
down with b~andageS so that, while the
ear is lassoed, corralled and removed
from the installations Of the madding
crowd, the players hearing is not OBJ
stucted. This arrangement is not par
ticularly satisfactory, and In fact no de-
vice has yet been invented that will I'LL
this long felt want.
There are many other noticeable
differences in personal appearance be
tween the elevens OF to-day and those OF
a dozen years ago. The player Of 1850
had reached the canYas jacket stage.
but his legs were covered by ordinary