Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-31

should be a regular student. should
spend the year in school, should take
the regular course and maintain GER
tain standard. II the player shoull
fall below that standard he should be
dropped. BE sure no one receives as
sistance, in short insist that the foo.
ball player be treated just as any other
student. Mr.. Marsh told of converse
lions he had with the business men
who had subscribed literally for the
game. One man said he did not be-
lieve in the game but gave money be-
cause he thought 1t polite to do So
| The speaker told Of conversation he
once overheard between foot ball play
ers of a great university. The leader
told how he should try to knock out ..
certain player on the opposing team
and with an cath exclaimed: Il do
not care if kill him. This is the
brute that must be eliminated Mr.
Marsh said he favored foot ball
| There is no athletic game in which 4,
| good player, an enthusiastic person,
| does not exercise violently at times.
! That doesn't hurt but the pugracity
must be shut out. The brute. such as
he had mentioned, must learn that he
doesn't run the school, the town ard
| the game He will if nothing in the
| way CT restraining him is done. The
games of foot ball and base ball are
coed in their place ard serve to let Oft
| steam that otherwise would be ex-
pended in mischief. He knew of schools
being built up by the success of their
athletic teams. at foot ball and base
bali He knew of a man who run Il
private sabpol as purely business
enterprise. who provided everything
possible for athletic success. He also
had provided that no man who got less
than 20 per cent. in rank should play
Mr. Marsh thought that possibly some
such arrangement might be- agreed
upon to preserve the game Of foot bal!
in such condition that it might safely
be played by the students of our high
schools and academies
Mr.. Albro. e. Chase principal of the
Portland high school. was the next
speaker and he entertained the meeting
for about half an hour with some tren-
chant remarks concerning the game
He said the previous speakers
position reminded him of tbs
member in the Massachusetts Leg
slature who while speaking on the
temperance question was interrupted
by the speaker with the question on
which side he was talking. The reply
was that he was endeavoring to repre-
sent his constituents. who were about
equally divided on the matter. Mr.
Chase thought that as the foot bal
craze started in college. the colleges
should provide course that would
graduate foot bah coaches. who could
teach the students in the secondary
schools just what to do in the way of
smuggling so that no one among the
spectators could see the act. also how
best to utterly disable the opponent.
He never had seen foot ball game or
a prize fight but he understood that
the training in both was much tha
same and was designed to cultivate the
same kind of pluck. endurance, ability
to overcome obstacles. etc. While h..
had not seen foot bali played he had
seen torn clothes. broken fingers and
scratched faces as a result, and he re
called that one ofshs scholars had not
been at school since last November.
when he played foot ball and was in
would form on the knee. But then this
young man had won glorious reputa-
ton for pluck and endurance of course |
this was not born in him. was all |
developed by fool ball Probably all
the pluck and endurance for which
Yankees were famed came from foot |
ball. He had known of some of the |
conduct and moral surrounding at !
tending these foot ball tours and of the !
great expense. in the Portland school |
an average of $500 annually. enough !
to hire a good teacher. He did not be |
grammar and the high school We're i'll |
condition for such strain as they were |
subjected to by the game. He knew |
that as a rule those attracted to the |
game were not those who took high |
rank, there were exceptions of course. |
had to lug many of them along In |
their studies. He had known OF i'll |!
stances where the foot ball player had |
been six or seven years in getting |
through high school Does all this |
pay?
Mr. Snow wanted the meeting to pass I
resolutions condemning or approving /
the game. He thought there ought to |
he an expression of opinion.
Mr. Cole thought it was absurd to /
think of abolshinS tie game, it could |
not be done whatever action this as