The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-10


What will become of US non-coms?
I don't know. We hardly know now
where we are at. / thought our lot
was precarious enough without further
notification that we are not worthy
even a court martial for Incompatible
ity-of course, if the old man heard
that 1 made such "a remark in connec-
ton with the new regulations would
be shelved by the time the next first
sergeants call goes. But you fellers
won't turn around and say anything,
for-I tell you-you are dead out o
luck when the old man gets down on
YOU
But there's another thing / was go
ing to tell you about" and the weighty
sergeant addressed himself to Private
Endtackle, tand that is the football
craze. Now, if there is anything l like
to see in the way of hot game it is
genuine old desperate game of foot
ball where the teams are about evenly
matched. Look at that game we had
the other afternoon. That was the
gameSt game I've seen this year on
the fort grounds. I tell you, our boys
know how to put up fine game when
they take a notion, and that crowd
from Butte who were here not long
ago, didn't do the square thing ex-
.
they tried to run in on US. You see,
the fort team couldn't get excused
from duty often enough to practice
when they wanted to, and the way the
Butte team went about the thing
wasn't just exactly to our view of pre-
liminaries. Why, they wouldn't even
reply to a letter we wrote them once,
and when they arrived here we saw
Brooks Immediately and wanted to ar
range for game on their return trip
| from Denver. Brooks wanted to play
then, couldn't wait at all. and we I'M
ally consented, but after they came Z p
and saw the fort team, they backed
out. We wanted to arrange for a game
on the 26th of last month, after all the
work around the post was done, but
they wouldn't agree to it. We wanted
to play them any time, and would
have done so if they could have stopped
over until we could have got the team
together. The captain of the Butte
team made the remark that he didn't
want his team broken up'-after he
gazed awhile upon the Tigers. The
! Butte team is q, collection [ like to see
once in seventy-five years"
Now we have always had lot of
trouble with those blamed reporters.
They come UP here some times and
| sometimes they don't take that trouble,
and somebody fills them full of one side
! of the story and we get the worst of it.
Sometimes they operate by telephone.
That day after the Butte team reached
the city-they left the post before drill
was over and we had no chance to
arrange anything-Casey telephoned
! Brooks that he was coming down to
| thu city and if agreeable would ar
range for a game to come off the next
| day Brooks replied that it was impoU-
sible to arrange for "a game then. The
reporter for the Tribune, who wrote
about the visiting team, got this tele-
phonic conversation down fine, and
called our team a very beautiful name,
which never came over the phone from
Brooks or any one else"
Football is certainly in the lead in
this country over all the other popular
games" continued the sergeant, land
| [ believe the time is not far distant
when it will become the great national
| game"
but that is the case"
Hold on until I tell you. [ look for
it to happen as early as next summer.
We should play football in the summer
as we'll as in the winter, when there's
no drill to stiffen up a Teller. In fact
it should be played early in the spring.
it would wake US up for the summer
ard in the fall as well as in the cold
weather"
'sSome people i'm the east are trying
to talk up a new game called push
ball. but such a game won't go yet a
while-when you have to push it along
and for many reasons; the principal
one is that the ball is too big for the
size of Though pushbal hasn't been
| 70, OH n f.
tention to yet, and it may never
amount to much. The ball is a balloon,
too large to handle with any degree of
! accuracy, and there is consequently an
absence of that fierce enthusiasm of
the footballist, who, when successful
in his play, becomes a very god of
sports. No sir, football is the coming
game of them all Why, anyone who
has ever played the game will tell you
it is far ahead of baseball and in fact
any of the other great games. For
snort give me football in all seasons
and everywhere and at all times
"Of the two kinds of football my
choice is rugby, the other style is out
of date. you know
How do you play the game, anyw-"
"I was just going to explain it to
you, if you'll keep still. The bail is
! put in play by a kickoff. The opposing
side must line up ten feet on the other
side of the ball and the ball must be
kicked ten feet. Then the man who is
lucky enough to get the ball goes ON
either side of the field, everyone on his
side interfering for him, and thus be-
comes the centre of the scrap"
"The first important thing about
football is a touchdown. A touch
down is when the ball is carried across
the goal line and it counts four points.
A goal kicked from the field by a
drop-kick counts five points. A safety
or touch-back is where a team is
forced to their own goal and
instead of letting their oppo-
nents score they give them two
points instead of six. After a touch
down is made the ball is then brought
back in the field and by place-kick
will if it goes over the goal, add two
more points to the score. A goal can
not be scored by a punt-letting the
ball drop from the hands and kicking
it before it strikes the ground. Punt
ing is the method used for keeping the
goal out of danger when the ball can
not be advanced by other means"
ITO lineup this year is a little diff
ferent from what it was last year Now
only one man can start before the ball
| Momentum plays are done away with
altogether, thus eliminating from the
game many of its worst features. The
supposition is that any kind of a play
is all right if the umpire doesn't kick