Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-29

A FOOTBALL PLAYERS BROWNING GLORY. siGle in these days than n good foot ball player with closely cropped caput. Gus tom has t!eCrrcd that this must be so and it is.
 Custom has also decreed that, although hair on tho head is eminently proper, all hair on the face must go. Thus it is that one of the laws of foot ball, as unchangeable a. the laws of he Medes and PerSiunS. is to -'Ic effect that mo whiskerS need apply" AHd they never do. If freshman who is ambitious tu get on his class eleven or the varsity team has blocked out n brace of barely disCcrnible burnsides, he gives them q last, fond, despairing look in the mirror tierCcly strOpS his razor to subdue his pain, and au instant later the block system is no more \ struggling if unworthy mus taChc meets no kinder fate. The young foot ball wnrrlor may be full of strange oaths as he seeks the bubble reputation. but he is never, no, never, bearded like a p2rd.
 There is method, however, in all this ap- parent madness, but some phases of it will persist in remaining ineXplicable to the lay mind. The II Sutherland brothers refuse to grow whiskers for fear some member of the opposing Sutherland aggregation may seize them, pull them out or otherwise mal- treat them in n sCrimmage. The same fear would naturally seem to argue against long hair, which would be more luNuriant than budding whiskcrs and an easy prey for an cnemys grip, but it does not. The foot ball star k unmindful of a little hair pull ing during touchdown, but he draws the line at whiskcrs.
 Extended and presumably bitter expert cnce has proved to the SaGeS who rule the dCstinies of foot ball. however, that long hair i> a decided protection in time of need. It prevents player from taking cold dur .a l-s- fur cap with old fashioned ear tabs, and best of all it forms n protective mat on top of the head that nothing less powerful than d piledriver will make dent in. A good thick head of hair i> consequently as effect i've in keeping together a football players brains as the steel helmet of Richard the Lion HeHrtetl'~ day. In this fact is to be found the true secret of the long hair craze in foot ball. and many q young Collegian after the bail has escaped broken head, owing to th" prn'eCtiou afforded Inv his hirSutc covering
 The season Is young yet, but Captain Hinkey of Yale already has n head like budding bru>hheap and in envied by Cap tains Treuchard of Princeton and Waters of HarV ard. who are only looking a trife shaggy about the cars and neck. On the Pacific copst, where the kickers have been pract icing on inc .,ridiron for many weeks and where the glorious climate is con- duciNC tu cNtraVagant growth on the part of nearly everything. the various foot ball teams are said to closely resemble punches of Chry sant hemums after gale.
 The most important football organiza- ton on this side of the Atlantic ocean k the Intercollegiate association. composed of Yale. Princeton, University of Pennsyl- vania and Wesleyan, but although it claims to decide the college championship of Amer , ica il can hardly be said 10 do so, for the reason that Harvard, Cornell and other strong colleges are not represented in the annual games.
 To remedy this incungruity there is talk of the forInati ion of a six club intercollegiate football league, including Yale, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania,