New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
FOOTBALL A STURDY GAME
ESPECIALLY FITTED FOR THE EMERGE
AND ACTIVITY OF AMERICAN YOUTHS.
IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE WHEN TAG 'F''r
v.s INTRODUCED INTO THIS oOuNThf
OIL, TINE. HEROES or THE GIRO
IuOS- TCRE or THE GAM.

The 'ast fifteen years have witnessed an eN-
trao-liaary development OF the athletic spiri' and
love o. spor, In tho American youth. II II one o'
the characteristics OF me face on TINS '4lc OF '"N
water that Il should throw Itself into any ne" hela
Of energy with superintendent AMI sometimes A.
most incorporate enthusiasm Ana no SiHGie spo''
has been a better illustration ana cNanPf "i al
this than the game of football.
Football IS n spcr' that 6 designed 10 appeal
pnrticuiarly 20 nc sturdy and robust blood tnat
flows through the veins oe the Arslo-SaXoA race
The remark that "EDgisnd's soldiers have been
made on tho football folds o' her public schools
has been accepted as = trlisr. and among the
gallant American you;rS who their way 20
elor, on the trails ana the heights bcore Santiago
90 Cuba some o. 90" hos, Known we're college men
whose names only al three years ago were by
words on AL thc college footballs campuscs. root
bail had cairnod them t"r her as II is natural
tina, 4, should claim mon who have love for sir
ling action 20, cool ana dashinE courage and for
shrewd ami sklful hca3work Football is game
That develops al those qualij &C pre-emuentl|. am
tina, Il why il has made such wonderful hoadwaN In
America
TIE CLASS THAT lT APPEALS TO.
II must 30 admitted thai football as at present
PLAYED I'm tais country docs not h'd r"rt''u'"'
favor outside -, school college. Other sports
ore poDnlar enough smons al classes o. No1ths
and vonrr men brr football derives rs supper
almost who'll, anons educational institutions. a'i
those paragraphs that arc written on tho snn1e''
mus. almost necessarily d"al only With IA" game
a. II is played At fho colleges ana SCHOOLS or ~
teams composed largely Of graduates Of such co..
leges and schools. TO he srre. association fo"'-
hall as n is called. played with fifteen men on
either side bas obtained some slight hold among
professionals" hat II eXccs little popular ell
t5usissm ON the contrary. Rugby football as
amended by the American colleges ana scho'I'' j.
a. game that attracts thousands To applaud. ENcr
no pify pf
has proved Of recent years for the graduates ana
undergraduates 81 Harvard end Yale 10 watch thr
big football battle there. while the Ihankss'N'nf
Day game in New-Y"rk between Yale ana Prince
ton has the clercymen complain. almost supersedeu
divine service and the family Thanksgiving dinner
formerly held about o'clock, has had 70 DC
abandoned altogether Recent changes nave
brought about a partial restoration OF IhankssN-
ing Day TO is original uses. and people nave set
thei, foot down upon the despotc sway tha' loo'-
hall WELDED But the popularity Of the game has
no, diminished whit ana the notifications that
have been made have been only such n. 70 put II
ON more enduring basis Of genuine approval
A LITTLE DIP INTO HISTORY.
peonlA have an idea tina, football is wholly
r,odorp snor, They know that such games as
chess and parobesi are as old a. the my s'erlouN
realms Of the East. but they have an ioea .na'
football is an upstar.. For all sHch II "o"i' "'
well to commend wha; ore Philip stoooeS' "s ."'
bach : -
some Of the Abuses in the Rcalme o. England
and he evidently placed football high upon the hS'
Here is what Stubbes says:
Now who is grossly blinde that seem n9t 'hs ID
these aforesaid eNeTrses b I' a S halle and allure
MS to wickednesse and sin? For as co' !, NE
o,ber he caed friendlie kinde of fyghte than
NAV or recreation-a bloody ana murtheIimS pn ,b
rOt eWerv orc I've in waight for his adVefsdiite.
seeking 10 overthrow him ana piche nIiu -" 1aie
~ ,In, or hin or whatever place soever II DC n.
careth not so ne have him doWne ana nv me
SSo .bo most OF this fashion he Is Counteu Wy
onlv fellow and who but he? 80 t hrnkcG
this means sometimes tneM heir legs. some
tunes t thsm someiimes their eyes start out ana
with nlooo hnpin in one pace sometimes in an.
oiher But whosoever scapeth a"s a2r.u an
soe'n not nr br',sed so az he dyeth OF 1t or else
caneth very harde: and no nerNa.e. ne 20 % daeh
nave M III hart with their elDowes, TO pu,,
MIN under the short ribs WITH lhel. H., and picke
MIR n his neck with hundred such mnTtne', ns
devices And hereof growe,,h emvy ,ther homicide
ana great effusion of blood. as experience '''''
co,Id there be- any description more in accord
DV"'u ,an,,,,r notion that many persons have
s,a,.od concerning the game? How those "e"
80 ~ tho Georgia State Legislature VINO No'e"
90 n-obibii the game entirely couple OF years aso
wound have hobnobbed and grasped ha''S WIN
phi,ip Stubbes Of Eiizabethan days
ppo,GHT HERE FROM ENGLAND
matter Of fact football was brought mere
As maj - 80 water The game
from the other sue VA ~ ,s.,l chou, very
played at Rugcy School was chd"s'u avn -
ronz,derab,v. one or two important features "eIe
CONSUL, "o'! -. ,ere strongly developed. II
dropped. wrhie o'"e's W" 40, ,De loading col
about twenty EtHS IT. IL nor, and for "a long
,s;rrn !, made headway only in the kas'. Len VI
Twelve years footba Was am9 %o.oaV Rsle
al or,
the Pacific that has hot rs .,su s,rmgeles be
working tea,nc iTord and the california Univcrsi
.;s nxrite rs much interest the sunny slopes OF
the Pacific do the battles io!ai ianfc Sea-