Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-24

The west and the cas-. will virtually meet
ON the gridiron at Chicago Thanksgiving
| day when the Chicago Athletic club PLAYS
the Boston Athletic club. Both elevens are
| thoroughly representative. and are undoubt-
| edly the finest athletic club teams ever
organized In the history Of American foot
| ball. Boston has a record this season never
| before equaled. For instance. they played
| tie, to o. games with Yale. Harvard and
| the Crescents, while they succeeded in
thoroughly frightening Pennsylvania out OF
| the New York engagement, Chicago on the
| other hand has conquered some OF the strong
eastern elevens and has about finished one
| of the most successful eastern tours In tho
history of ths club. 1t is to be fight to a
fnish and no one will doubt for a minute
that the big game will abound in exciting
| incidents and brilliant plays.
| LINCOLN. Neb. Nov. 15.--To the Sporting
Editor of The Bee: That the smaller coll
| leges are creeping up on their eastern elders
| in the foot ball arena is becoming more APP
| parent every day. A few years ago the only
colleges TO have foot ball teams were Yale.
Princeton and Harvard, and then the game
began to spread and to become popular with
all the colleges and schools, until today
school is not counted worth much unless Il
has It's athletic team on the neld-as Chan
cellor Mclean said in his address to the stu
dents at chapel last week, I'VE need such
sports, and what sport is better than foot
ball TO give man qulckness of perception
and Judgment In making him act for him
self ON the spur of the moment. 1t teaches
the strong man who has an overestmation Of
his powers that he has several equals in the
world, and 1t also shows the backward man
that he is peer to his brother who has been
vaunted to the skys." Continuing, the chan
cellor said: The mind works more fully,
and all the senses are more acute for having
a good muscular development, and this is
obtained in no game better than in foot ball.
A man has to decide on the instant what he
m ilf not in IL,
AS the game grows older. men graduate
from the eastern schools and teach 1t to
those farther west. until today the west has
teams which are almost IL not quite. the
equal of any eastern team. 1t is said Of the
Michigan team, that given the training of
the Harvard coaches. the score would not be
to against them, but bigger score, re-
versed.
The west has much better material to
draw from than the east Our boys seem
better developed and larger, but the east has
the advantage in drawing players from the
preparatory schools, where they have all
played the game for few years, while In
western college the coach has three or four
old players and has to go right to work and
develop players from the green. compari-
son of scores shows that our teams in this
section Of the valley are not far behind the
eastern teams. Wisconsin has been consid-
cred the equal OF Michigan. Northwestern
beat Wisconsin. and Missouri beat North
western, Purdue and De Pauw. On another
page you will see what Kansas did to Me-
braska yesterday.
Pennsylvania action in canceng her
game with the Boston Athletic club may
bring about lawsuit The management Of
Manhattan field of course lost money on the
Pennsylvania fuke and some one will have
to make the amount good. The grounds
were all put in shape for the game at no
little cost, and 1000 people waited about the
gates for admission. This action on Penn
sylvania's part was very, very rank, and the
effect Of the fuke will be felt at Phiadel-
phia for long time