Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-26

them or ask Tor sympathy. Even the
most scientific football was not a game
for nurslings. and that men that had 10
make such 8 parade Of minor injuries
after each contest ought to take TO cro-
quet or battledore or shuttlecock. and
drop football. The very elements of
the game that give 1t its moral value
and favor the development OF pluck,
m~arliness and good temper under try
ing conditions, will always leave room
for this sort Of babyish whining after q
severe contest.H
MIR. cUyLER's VIEWS.
Cornelius c. Cuyler, an old Princeton
man, a member OF the University Ath-
letic Club aud a member OF the Execu-
tive Committee which have in charge
the management OF the Thanksgiving
game, stated that in his opinion there
VIZ positively nothing the matter with
football as played by Yale, Harvard and
Princeton. Continuing he said
"If you will examine the histories Of
football you will see that but very few
men contesting In the games between
the three big colleges have been dis.
qualified for unfair playing during the
last ten apd even seventeen years, Of
aver since the game began to be gener-
ally played.
''If you will look up the records Of
the games between Yale and Princeton
you will see that but one mar mas been
disqualified for roughness in all the
years that they have been playing.
asNTavv lae - pon uharA a nd uyhnn tho
talk about roughness and brutality in
American college football began. II
began in Philadelphia in the fall Of
1890 when Princeton played Pennsyl-
Yania. Edgar Allen Poe was LYING
helpless on the ground with his face
upward when a big burly Pennsylvania
came running along and literally trod
in his face, thereby breaking his nose
and m~ntilating his face horribly.
"And so during the last three years,
whenever and wherever Pennsylvania
has played, complaints OF brutality have
been made against IT,. Last Saturdays
game told the same story. Football Is
not a game made up Of Singing, ham
mering faces, biting, thxoitling and
tramping on ones opponents. These
things rightfully have no part In the
game. And 1t is but rarely that one
sees the players in the three big teams
indulge In this kind Of work.
81 myself have a very strong idea
that the publication Of the game from
these things is at hand. l think that
certain teams will play next year In a
class that they are o accustomed TO,
and with teams that they have never
played before. . Then there are two
other means Of lettering football. The
one is TO be more particular in picking
the men who constitute the teams.
Only men should be put on a team who
have shown that they are gentlemen on
the field as well as off Of it.
WANTS BETTER UMPIREs.
''Then this business OF choosing weak
hearted umpires must be stopped. II It
is the captain of a team or substitute
guard that plays like a barbarian he
should be disqualified by all means.
Any mar who tries dirty work should
be ruled off at once nc matter who he
is or how badly his absence may
weaken the team Of which he is a mem
Der.
II really don't see why people should
not enjoy the Thanksgiving game from
the side lines just as much as IL they
had seats in the grand stand. l GER
tainly would not object to having any
one in whom / was interested view It
from the field. The nauseating details
of last Saturdays game are not in evil
dence on Thanksgiving Day."
Deputy Collector OF the Fort Phelp,
who halls from Harvard or 'the only
University In America" as he insists II
should DE called, is q great admlrer OF
football. He said to me: 81 have seen
lots OF hard games In my time, and l
have never seen any Of this ~slugging.
'In all my experience with the game
I must say there was only one man who
forgot himself on the field to any ex-
tent. That was Hardy, one Of the GRIM
sons old rushers. He was good natured
through It all and 1t vas due more TO
u than anything else. He
used to play a fairly rough game at
times.
"On the whole, / look upon football
as a manly sport. The American pub
lie is growing fonder, day by day, Of all
kinds OF outdoor sports. They won't
take anything that is not sportsman
like. And l think that the college boys
will continue to give them what they
want"
II. c. WILLIAMS TALKS.
B. G. Williams, Of the firm OF B. C..
Williams 81 Co., stock brokers, is the
centre OF q group which gathers every
day on the floor Of the Stock Exchange
and discusses the ins and outs OF the
game. He is one Of the prominent ath-
letes Of the New York Athletic Club,
and holds an enviable recorder as an
amateur boxer. When / asked him
whether be thought football, as now
played, was a game for gentlemen, he
said: "Iu my estimation football Is one
OF the most cruel aud barbarons games
OF the day. There are more crlpples
running around the streets Of New,
York as a result Of football than Of any
other one game. Some Of these players
are permanently injured. Why, during
the past week two men have been killed
outright on the football field. That Is
a fine record. is it not, for an amateur
sport?
"Why, l tell you, prize fights are Ike
strawberry festivals when compared TO
football. don't understand why the
American game should be so much more
dangerous than the English. But it Is
an actual fact that considering toe
number of games played and the num-
Der Of players taking part, the number
Of accidents in this country Is away
above that IN England.
81 attribute this largely TO college
feeling. That is so strong in this coun-
Try that men are tempted TO forget that
they are gentlemen In their efforts 10
wfn the game. A poiiticlan once said