The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-12

Barr Ames and Student p. w. Whit
temore of the athletic committee. and
Capt. Charles Brewer of the football
team, and, while all were polite and
willing to impart a certain amount of
information, no one was willing to be
quoted. What they said collectively
may be summed up about as follows.
as the statement of the football spirit
of Harvard:
The Future of intercollegiate Football.
First OF ALL" said the spirit. "there
wouldn't have been any trouble over
football IL you newspaper men had let
us alone. or confined what you had to
say to reports of the games, and such
pieces of news as were given TO you by
authority. But you weren't satisfied
with such tame publication. Report
ers exaggerated the facts. and editors
wrote comments, some sneering and
some alleged to be humorous, that were
calculated to bring the game into dis
repute. In this you were successful In
fact a hostile feeling against college
football on the part of the masses of
people who understand nothing about
IL was created. This frightened the
faculty. and so they issued the resolu-
ton That the faculty desire the COM
mittee on athletics to put a stop to all
intercollegiate football contests This
was on Feb. 20. 1t was followed on the
Va IL
March 20 by the faculty's rejoinder,
holding to the original view. But since
that time the corporation has put its
foot down, practically saying that in
tercollegiate football shall not be abol-
ished. Some points win be given up,
but the game will go on, and the news
papers and the faculty are beaten.
Under just what conditions the game
will continue cannot now be stated. for
the reason, among others. that they
have not yet been formulated. But the
games will be played upon college
grounds, and the attendance will be
limited TO say 10000. This latter will
be effected by limiting the accommo-
datfons for spectators. and the old days
OF enormous crowds witnessing Thanks
giving and other football games in New
York have passed forever. OF course,
formerly. but so will the expenses, and
the newspapers will not have so good
an opportunity to jump on the game in
future as In the past. An attempt was
made last year TO get the newspapers
TO agree TO be more reasonable in their
treatment OF football, but IL failed. OF
course, for IL was profitable 10 the pub
fishers TO do as they did. The Boston
newspapers would have been glad to
accede 10 our wishes, but they said il
would be impossible, unless the news
papers of the entire country could be
brought into line. This was out OF the
question, and therefore football had to
suffer.
Undoubtedly. however. athletics
will be the gamer in the end. Nearly
or quite 20 per cent OF the students
are either actively athletic or in full
sympathy with those who are. and the
newspaper criticisms and the action OF
the faculty have served to bind the
students more closely together than
ever before. Unfortunately, at the
same time. some degree OF hostility
toward the faculty has been created"
The notion OF the newspapers band
ing together TO treat college football
with more tenderness than other top
les may strike some persons as a trlfie
humorous. II brings 10 mind the pro-
test uttered some years ago by the