New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-29
FOOTBALL IN JEOPARDY.
THE BRUTALITY AT SPRINGFIELD MAY
END THE SPORT.

HrNkEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN RULED OFF WHEN
HE BROKE wRlGHTINGToNs CoLLAR-BoNE-
HIS ATTACK on ONE OF HIS OWN TEAM
TIE interes; taken in the coming battle between
Yale and Princeton has in no way deracted from
the ;ndignation over the brutality In the Harvard
Yale contest a; Springfield on Saturday last IL
has in a sense, added TO the discussion OF tha' oe
porable exhibition of brutality, and college men
and those who have the true welfare OF the game
at heart are asking another II there is TO De
repetition OF last Saturdays prize-ring spectacle
on Manhattan Field day after tomorrow the
alumni the coaches and the lovers of the game
generally are keenly alive 20 the danger III winch
the free-for-al fight at Hampden Park has placed
tho contest and it is the unanimous opinion that
should il be enacted again on SATURDAY between
Yale and Princeton the game will receive its death
blow The fact that certain players were actuated
by personal spite or, at least, spirit more IMAM
that of manly rivalry. and went into the game WIN
the deliberate intention OF using up their man,
has only added to the universal disgust. and men
VINO before have sturdily upheld the sport are Tree
TO express their condemnation of Saturdays COM
ba..
What football really needs said Henry s Van
Duzer, who is a member of the University Athieuc
Clubs Advisory Committee, lis a Dr. Parkhurst
man who viii have the courage. when umpiring
game TO stop instantly every attempt at roughness
and unfair play and unless this is done at once
football Is doomed
IF such brutality" said Mr.. Van Duzer ''as was
seen on Hampden Park last Saturday is TO be con-
tnued, the game would much better be abandoned
than played both for the good of students and OF
amateur athletics and have not the slightest hesi-
taton in saying that If there is another such exhi-
bition the University Athletic Club and the college
faculties will put a stop to the sport aitogether l
do not think tRat the fault results so much rom .ne
wish to put all the blame on either co.ese. a. h
could not say with any certainty VINO stattsu Ie
tackled and thrown. and / saw Captain Hlnkey OF
Yale jump on him, and believe that he should nave
sand Mofyatts statement that he did not see the
play. Mr.. Mofatt is probably perfectly correct III
every rough play in the line. but when the pan Is
kicked down the field and caught and rough pay a
but watch that part Of the ned s ~
"One perhaps. why the game seemed , uno
crippled and unfit to on the field -,..... ,,o
VINE fa ab a. anS S extreme ronchness 10
either Yales captain or his men. they hold but one
opinion in regard TO the effect on the game wn'ch
George 4. Adee; who Is also on the University +,
Athlec CUBS Aqvs,ry nf abn,ics is most
emphatic in his denunciaticn Of the game: IN my
..the roughnoss If intentional. was not inausu-
rated by Yale. was Yale To blame for II; nn':
aside from this question such an exhibition as mat
OF last Saturda, would, If repeated by any college
es1, be an9s, fat2l q foGiba l. ~ arden, foot,
ball enthusiast and loyal Male man but ne mas
made 10 his mind that he VIII never again witness
such brutal sight he saw last week 1t IL an
outrage" he said. and too much cannot be SAID
against l.: Ii means the death Of foot3al ana
have 70 doubt the college faculties VIII prohoit IT,
" not they should. II was shameful. brutal;z-
ing spectacle and disgrace to the men the colleges
and the sport. As FAR Captain tIinkey was CON
cerned il Is absurd and unjust 10 saddle the nam"
on him. Hinkey has been the most maigned PLAYER
tina. ever stepped on field. / personally know
that he endeavore1 in every way to avoid any IN
fr!neement Of the rules, and that he cautioned MS
men against unfair and rough play the night before
the game Hnkey has never denied the charges
which have continually been made against him. bat
thev have been proved false and utterly untrue by
the men who were styled MS victims. In regard 10
the charge that Hnkey deliberately kicked Upton
in the head two years ago, | know that. rom Up
toms statement made to me at a dinner given
by Coonei Hgginson to be false Upton told me
that he received the injury by coming In contact
with POP Bliss. and that Hinkey was In no man.
ner blame for IT. 49,,
4 Harvard man took a different view about Hin
key "Hinkey" he said. '1s associated in the pub
lie mind with dirty football. ! saw
Hinkey break Wrightlngtons colar-bone and
If it was accident IT was most re,
markable one. When Wrightington was tackled
and thrown. Hinkey was dozen feet away. He
dd not fall on the PROSTATE Harvard man but
Pumped on him 1t the most fiendish act
ever saw on a football field"