The evening times., 1895-10-12
GRIDIR0NIS NOT fOR THEM
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How Georgetown Men Feel Over the
Prohibition of Football.
High school to Meet This After
nOon-NOtes of the Game.

IN years past football has been played
| at Georgetown, not only with the consent
but even the encouragement of the faculty.
| But football at Georgetown received its
death-biow in the game with Columbia
Athletic Club last Thanksgiving day, when
George Bahcn went down in one of the
rushes, sustaining injuries which subse-
quently proved fatal. All prominent col
legc men saw at the time that the faculty
would he compelled To take some step in
the matter and when it was announced that
they had finally decided TO abolish all
football with outside teams until a radical
change appeared in tile rules, but TO per-
nit the annual inter-class games, under
the old regulations, il occasiopcd little
surprise. and all the students acquiesced
III their decision. and acknowledged that it
was the best course open.
BY permitting The class games the faculty
admits thai it is possible to play the game
without serious injury To The contestants,
if the teams treat each other with ordinary
respect, but ii was their desire to avoid
even the risk of a repetition of such an ac-
cident as that at National Park last
hanksgiviBg.
II was hoped that the loiiged-for radical
ciangc might take place this year, hut
as the only practical advance was the ad-
dition of ii linesnan. the game nust remain
on the black list. for IL was not so much
the inability of the umpire To see offcnses
as the Indifference with which they were
regarded that made football 50 dangerous
last year.
That life students realize the justice of
the facuity's decision is evident from
the fact that 10 complaints are heard, al
though football was the only athletic
sport 10 claim ia. .r interest throughout
the fall session.
If the Association game gains ground,
as is probable from present Indications,
the interest in the old game Will no doubt
gradually decline, and when the much
talked OF radical change does appear,
IL is likely that all the old Men viii be
gene.
The more general opinion, however
is that the game will be played i'll Il
season or TWO, because these who really !
love the game for Itself and are Working
in its interests are bound TO realize the
necessity OF eliminating brutality, If they
wish 10 keep football contests before the
public: and when this is Gone, the prohibit
tion viii tc removed By the Georgetown
faculty.
John i. O'Bricn, " no played at center
throughout the past season, said:
while am personally disappointed over
the action OF the faculty jim Prohibiting
football under the present rtlcs, am
inclined to believe thar lit 5 not al
together 10 the detriment or the students.
This Prohibition is, however. in my opin-
ion, only temporary, as the indignation
aroused among college men throughout
the country on account of last years
brutal play W i'll lead to iiie Formulation of
new rules which will eliminate brutal
and necessarily rough play ]
The following football games viii he
played today: r
AT West Pont-Harvard VS.. West Point. I
At Iadelphia-UnivefsHy Of Penn
sylvania vs.. Lehigh.
AT Prircetun-Princeton IS. lafayette
At chariottcsviIie, Va!t--Unfvcrsity Of |
Virginia VS. Maryland Aihletft''Chib.
AT Lexington. va.-Wasliington and Lee
University IS. V. n. /.
At New York-Yale W.. Crescent Ath- |
letlc Club.
At Annapolis-New Jersey Athletic
Club VS.. Naval Cadets.
After many days of waiting the meeting /
OF Harvard and Princeton upon the grid
iron has assumed ii tangible form. Har
ward challenged the Tigers ON yesterday
and, IL is reported. has in her challenge
acted nobly and Conceded almost every
thing the Tigers coould have asked. 1t now
remains for Princeton 10 de- her part and
the game is an assured fact. The game will
probably be pla yed ut Princeton on Novem-
ber 8.
Ex-Cap,ain Arthur knipe is to referee
the Harvard-west Point match at West
Point to-day. A great deal OF interest
alta ciics to this match. which may he the
best OF those played this afternoon Har-
mon Graves is coaching the Cadets, and
thinks his team is strong enough 10 give
the Crimsom quite an argument. Most
all the old-timers of the side lines who
will be able To see the game will be
there.
The Galiaudet eleven will play their first
game this afternoon at 6allaudes College,
corner of Seventh and NJ streets northeast.
Their opponents will be the strong team
Of the Central High School. Both elevens
are stronger than last year. and both are
confident of making n large score. A
small admission of l . cents will be charged.
A new gate has been made at the east
end of the wall on Florida avenue. and
admittance will be refused n the gate on
Seventh and NJ streets. The lineup of the
Gallaudet team will be as follows Roth,
right end; Dudley. right tackle; Brooks,
right guard: Smielan, center: Rosson, left
guard: BrockLagen, left tackle: Nicholson
Or Haig, right end. Capt. Hubbard. quar-
ter back: Grimm or O'Connor, left half
back: Price or Haig, right half back;
Erd, full back.