The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-02
FooT.BALL DISCUSSED AGAIN.
Rev. A. &. brown, ID. H., has something 10
Say About The Popular Game.


letter OF your Danville correspondent In
Yesterdays issue Of The Times:
"The last day of Conference was very
interesting one In sthe matter of debates
The first subject discussed was football,
| brought up by resolutions offered by ReV
| A. G. Brown, cOndemning the manner OF
playing football at the colleges as being
| brutal, demoralizing In influence, inju-
rious TO health, dangerous to limb OF
contestants, and that faculties Of colleges.
| under the watchful care and patronage of
the Methodist Church. ne urged to DO all
| In their power TO put down football.
| Some of the younger ministers. who have
! just left college, defended football one
I going 50 far as TO ri1icule the resolutions,
| TO declare the Conference about 20 make
| ridiculous spectacle of itself He offered
a substitute that a committee be appoint
| ed TO draw up a set Of rules TO be known
! as Conference football rules and that
| students Of Randolh-Macon and other
| colleges under the Church be required 10
play by them. Another substitute Gudge
| Kilby's), modifying the language Of the
original resolutions. and merely expressing
| disapprova Of the evil tendencies Of foot
ball. was added"
The party Of the second part" begs
leave 10 reply:
!. The resolutions referred to were not
against football per Sc. but against the
customary manner Of playing" that
game. They read as follows:
Resolved. 1st That we regard the Gus
tomary manntr Of playing the game OF
! football to be brutal in character, de-
moraiizing IN influence, injurious 10 the
health and dangerous TO the limbs and
lives Of the contestants
"a. That intercollegiate gaming at foot
ball should be forbidden by the colleges
OF our Church, because, I'm addition 10 the
evils and dangers above named. It in
wolves serious loss of time and money
places the contestants in way OF per.
nicious temptation, and is a species Of
amusement unbecoming in Christian peo-
pie.
:. YOur correspondent says: Some Of
the younger ministers. who have just left
college defended football" '"Tls pity
It's true Yes. more the pity. that
younger ministers who have Just left
college, should point the moral Of so sad
fact One Of these younger ministers.
who have just left college" tells us thai
ne went so far as to ridicule the resom-
tons Of his seniors, and to declare that
the Conference was about 70 make itself
ridiculous. Alasi Alasli
j. Exit, Younger ministers. who
have just left college, Kind reader
Will you look upon the men whom they
would ridicule, and would you know
now, ana by what action. the Virginia
Annual Conference, numbering more than
20 members. in it's one hundred ana
eleventh session, was about TO make
"a ridiculous spectacle of itsself?" The
men who offered the resolutions lin
Guiding this w.rltcr-humblest of aID.
are the following Paul Whitehead d.
D.; w. f.. Judkin, D. D.; W. j. Young
ID. D.; Captain Richard Irby; VI. A.
Cogbiil, Esq; Rev. Joseph II. Amiss:
j. Powell Garland, d. D.; 4. Coke Smith
ID. D.; Rev l.. s. Reed; Rev. James
c. Reed; and Rev. Richard Ferguson.
The resolution offered by Judge Kilby
which was adopted by the almost unani-
nous vote OF that large and venerable
body. reads as follows:
Resolved That while the Conference
would not oppose innocent amusements.
il condemns the excuses into which
baseball and football have run: and
that our colleges and faculties thereof be
urged to do all in their power to dis
courage and repress the same."-Dan-
Vile Registers report.
4. Not innocent amusements, or
manly sports: but the excuses into
which baseball and football have run,
which are neither innocent nor manly.
but often vicious demoralizing, brutal,
are herein condemned; and the Confer
ence, by its powerful voice, calls upon
our colleges and faculties TO do all I'm
their power 10 discourage and repress
these dreadful excuses, whose evils and
dangers menace the morals, waste the
time and money, and imperil the lives
Of very many OF the nObest young
men in our chief institutions of learning
WIN our colleges and faculties hear and
heed that voice2
3. Not the Methodist Conference
only. but the enlightened public press
raises a warning cry The Danville
Daily Register Of to-day says:
I'VE have never seen a game OF So
called football as she Is played but
from the accounts We have read Of
various recent games. we regard II as
a brutal. unscientihc, unmanly game
compared with which nc Sc racing is
religious, cock fighting is refined. and
prize fighting is highly respectable"
1t is to he regretted that love Of the
brutal sport is growing.
The New York World says that foot
ball as now played is worse than the
bull fights" OF Spain. while DR.. Mcbride.
q worthy representative OF the Christian
pulpit. tells us that while In theory,
lHTUltSSs dS fldNti ipOl-betii - HttlIA-
less-that II puts our young collegeans
on the incline. at whose bottom is
heathenism. Wise men were butchered
TO make a Roman holiday"
All this / painfully believe, and. "be-
cause ! believe. therefore, have I spok-
en-" Not as against the younger min
listers, just from the college" but for
them in Truths dear name. and by all
the traditions Of the fathers, by all the
teaching Of the meek and lowly Saviour
Of humanity, by whatsoever things are
pure just. and good. here ] stand with
the Bible. the Church, and the Confer
ence, against worldly and wicked ex-
cesses. ALEX. G.. BROWN.
On the cars, Dec l. 1898.
ta o. F sh'one Kentucky Hangine.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. l. George
Armstrong (colored) was hanged at Tay-
louisville, Ky this morning for the muir