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 Practical Tests.
College Enthusiasm VIII BE Lacking
In Professional Games.

Last year seemed the zenith period in
| intercollegiate football history. The pop
ular victory of Princeton over Yale on
Thanksgiving Day, after four successive
seasons of defeat, ended the campaign
with a boom at the New Jersey college
and spurreL the New Haven men to
greater efforts next time. The fact that
the Yale University of Pennsylvania
match was decided in this city drew an I'M
wonted crowd and doomed the Philadel
phia Varsity not little. and, alto
gether, interest in football was deep and
pervdsive.
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 c.
Bell and Or. W. a. Brooks, PENIS and
Harvard's representatives. are consid-
cred as shrewd as any men In the
football-political world, and both duly
suspicious OF "Yale's lodges"
1t is not at all unlikely that the first
few preliminary matches between Yale,
Harvard, Princeton. pennsylvania &C.,
and the minor teams will show unex-
pected applications and constructions
of the new playing rules that may ne
| cessitate a reconvening of the experts
and supplementary or entirely new
legislation.
that mass plays were wiped out of exist
| ence by the committee, because para.
| graph c. Of rule 30. is generally read
without due reflection Of its intents and
shall be allowed" does not by any
means preclude such momentum inter-
ference as Woodrutf's flying Interior
atrocities as the Cornell flying wedge,
which proved such an effectual start of
last season. In short. till the new rules
| have been actually tried prophecy Ia fu-
tile and speculation is as bad.
New York Baseball Club speaks most
football ne sehs s1sPe'S New York;
brooklyn. Boston, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and Washington will be nit. The
are to sassrd 1 ss9 ~
be played at the Polo Grounds that after
noon.
socla ton" football last Fall and enthusi-
astically indorsed It, the college men
so disdainfully, and the belief in many
quarters that It is less rough and wear
ing than the Rugby game has popular
lied 1t considerably.
Still. football Is essentially an ANA
teur sport In this country, unlike Eng
land, where both Rugby and Associat ton
players are engaged at regular salaries,
football would be a paying institution
here The tremendous attendance and
wide interest in intercollegiate games
masnates to believe that they could
gather in the dollars after the baseball
season closed by diverting their players
m asn areesa a
and December.
The naivest thing in football this sea.
Cd bnks here hope for Yas
this year" Surely Walter Camp viii
stop the guileless youth from utterins
such innocent comments.
field Sept. q. the day college opens, and
full week earlier than usual.
Phil King begins coaching the signs
The Denver Athletic Clubs champion.
ship team was SO badly treated al
some of last seasons matches that foot
ball has received temporary setback
! in Colorado.
, The Royal Arcanum Football Leagu,
is undecided whether to play under
INTERCOLLEGIATE or association rules;
|, River. who will captain the lie
high team this year, is going to have
ten good men under him from present
Indicate
The Naval Academy is going to b,
badly off for coaches this year.