The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-28
YALE NOTES.
Much Criticism Throughout the Country
 Regarding the Recent Football Game

awakened comment rom many ieauinB journals of the country. The New York Tribune in column yesterday headed Reform Football or Stop It," starts off by saying: Football ought to be either radically reformed. or altogether pro- hibited by the college authorities. Whatever else was left in doubt in the Yale-Harvard game in Springfield on Saturday this fact was conclusively es- tabllshed. It was a brutal contest throughout. There appears to be no difference of opinion on the subject"
 The Tribune then says that those who have been the most uncompromls- ing advocates of the sport for years" have changed front regarding It.. Readers of the Tribune are aware that we have never been opponents of football before" "We have believed and still hope that the game can be modified so as to make 1t respectable. It Is well worth saving for It's excel lencies, if its 6eformlties can be re- moved" After further full discussion of the subject the article closes by say- ing: "The question whether 1t Is capa- ble of reform radical enough to justi- fy its retention among college sports re- mains to be answered. One thing is cer- tain: Another game like that of Satur- day would irdelibly disgrace not only the players, but the college authorities primarily responsible for such an atrocity."
 Last evenings New York Post In column editorial says in the course of the article:
 "The indifference to wounds and bruises or dislocations incurred for fun, which it cultivates, if not the parent of cruelty and barbarism, certainly soon becomes the parent of Q sort of admira- tion of persons, like Hinkey of Yale, who wantonly inflict them. Hinkey, who ought to have been arrested when he jumped on Wrightington, and be now on bail awaiting trial, we have no doubt will be for some weeks to come the hero of the youths oe the nation, and be drunk with popular interest and ad- miration. The poison, too, is by no means confined to the colleges. It trickles and has trickled down among the schoolboys who are preparing for college. It drives everything but foot ball out of their heads. It makes the college appear simply a place which supplies teams for the intercollegiate games. It brings the quiet students and acpooiallv tho poor St,Idept who triaS to get mental culture out of the curricu- lum, and cares nothing for football, into greater contempt than ever. It makes intellectual eminence and intel lectual achievements appear compara- tivly paltry, and raises "quarter backs" and "left tackles into ridiculous fame. It promotes and cherishes, if 1t does not recommend, the qualities which furnish all our cities with the crop of blackguards and loafers and bruisers who build up the Tammanys and make municipal government so difficult It diffuses the gambling spirit through every little school in the country. We say deliberately that no one form of physical culture is worth such a price We do not need it either for right liv- ing or national glory"
 The Boston Herald of November 26 remarks: Two years ago Captain Hin- key of the Yale football team kicked the head of Upton, a Harvard player and Upton was carried from the field insensible after his run of thirty-five yards round Hinkey's end. A few moments later Emmons, another Har- ward player, next to Upton, was dis abled by a wrenched shoulder The doctor went on the field to attend him, and on his return to the side lines asked the Harvard coachers to watch how Emmons used his arm on the first play. What was their aston ishment to see Greenway, Yale player, immediately seize Emmons' arm with both hands and violently wrench it away from his shoulder. Emmons was immediately taken off the team dis abIed, and through the two substi- tutes on this disabled end of the line Yale carried the ball through for her Isonly touch down.
 It was in this game that Yale ac- cepted a five-yard penalty several tim IS for the privilege of throwing Gray or Brewer violently to the ground after either had made a fair catch. The chances were that, being new to the game, these young players would quickly succumb to such attacks, but, although Gray was knocked insensible by the first attempt he never once dropped the caught ball..
 After this game the feeling sprang up at Cambridge that the Yale spir.t of "We must win" was not an enviable one. That feeling has been slowly ex- tending to persons outside of Harvard circles, and on all sides there is now evidence of rapidly growing senti- ment against the too often expressed | zeal for victory at any cost. The game of Saturday at Springfield cannot fail to attract attention to the danger which ! threatens the fair fame of Yale unless this spirit of her sons is manifested within the limits of gentlemanly con- 1 duct. The evidence seems to show clearly that in the vicious playing which marred the work of both teams, Yale was the instigator and first of- fender. Harvard acted, seemingly, in self-defence, until her patience was ex- hausted. What followed was a dis grace to each university and a serious menace to the game of football.
 The Hartford Courant remarks: Another such game of football as was seen at Springfield Saturday. and the