The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-06
FALSE FEARS FOR NEW RULES.
Football Cranks Quaking in Ad-
vance of Pract cal Tests.
College Enthusiasm Will BE Lacking
in Professional Games.

Last year seemed the zenith period In
intercollegiate football nistory. The pop
ular victory Of Princeton over Yale on
Thanksgiving Day. after four successive
seasons of defeat, ended the campaign
with boom at the New Jersey college
and apurred the New Haven men to
greater efforts next time. The fact that
the Yale-university of Pennsylvania
match was decided in this city drewan UNI
wonted crowd and doomed the Philadel-
phia Varsity not little. and, alto
gether, interest in football was deep and
peryasive.
This year the new playing rules veto
in advance all prophecy as to the relative
chances of the leading college teams. and
even the eminent band of experts who
devised them do not pretend to know
how they will stand practical demonstra-
ton.
The fact so often repeated by the
gentlemen themselves that they were
unanimously agreed upon. severally and
collectively, relieves each member OF
individual criticism. 1t Is foolish to
suppose that even the astute Walter
Camp could work the Committee,
when it is remembered that John e.
Bell and DIR. w. A. Brooks. Penn's and
Harvard's representatives, are consid-
cred as shrewd as any men in the
football-poltical world, and both duly
suspicious of "Yale's lodges.
1t Is not at all unlikely that the hrst
few preliminary matches between 1ale'
Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, &C.,
and the minor teams Will show unex-
pected applications and constructions
of the new playing rules that may ne
| tyFnrN Inc nf
and supplementary or entirely new
legislation.
There is a popular misapprehe
that mass plays were wiped out of exist
ence by the committee, because para.
graph Q. of rule 80, is generally read
without due reflection of its intents and
No momen'ummai hy plays sSy
| means preclude such momentum inter-
! ference as Woodrufr's flying Interior
ence, although 1t does prohibit such
which proved such an effectual start off
las; season. In short. till the new rules
have been actually tried prophecy is flu
| tile and speculation Is as bad.
Secretary George, stackhouse,, of the
New York Baseball Club, speaks most
confidently Of the prospects of the
Brooklyn. Boston, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and Washington will be in 1t. The
players are to report Saturday, Sept. 10,
| and an exhibition" game will probably
| noon.
Since "Bucky" Vail, the plucky quar-
| terback of the University of Pennsyl-
ISOLATION football last Fall and enthusi-
| astically indorsed 1t, the college men
have not viewed the Association game
so disdainfully, and the belief In many
ing than the Rugby game has popular
I lied 1t considerably.
Still. football is essentially an ANA
| tl,tas
| land, where both Rugby and Association
| players are engaged at regular salaries,
and it is doubtful whether professional
football would be a paying institution
here The tremendous attendance and
| wide interest in intercollegiate games
last FAN very probably led the baseball
gather in the dollars after the baseball
season closed by diverting their players
energies In the direction of goals and
touchdowns during october. November
The naivest thing in football this sea
sRn he thinks r thefe hope for Yas
stop the guileiess youth from utterng
such innocent comments.
Yale plays its first game at the Yale
field Sept. "a, the day college opens and
Phil King begins coaching the signs
at Quogue this week.
The Denver Athletic Clubs champion
| snip team WAS 80 DdNly tItdletl ~
some of last seasons matches that foot
ball has received a temporary setback
in Colorado.
The Royal Arcanum Football League
is undecided whether to play under
intercollegiate or association rules.
Trafton, the big centre from Fall
River. who will captain the lie.
high team this year, Is going to have
ten good men under him from present
| indications.
The Naval Academy is going to he
badly off for coaches this year