The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-12
No FOOTBALL THIS YEAR.
STATE UNIVERSITY WILL NOT PUT
TEAM IN THE FIELD.
Athletic Association Decides Denrth
of College spirit. Money and In
terest in the ssame Justify Action
Track Athletics Also Go.

The big bell Of the state university. SOL
emily tolie1 yesterday afternoon by a doZ-
en- Or so of melancholy students, sound Ell
the death knel Of athletics a. that ins1tu-
t;on for The present season
too,DdA a. the university 5 dead. FOR
some time past the outlook Tor The sport st
the schoo, has been growing lark. Tester-
day matters We're brought 10 ii culinuation
by the executive committee Of Tie L. OF
". Athletic Association, com poSed Of l.. o.
NeSer, ]. Il. COF9ett, IT. and II. /. Reese.
who laid resolutions before The association
recommending thai the l. OF u. have 10
football team in the field this year. The
reasons aScr bed ny the committee were
lack OF patriotism N the school, itself, IN
adequate support Of football among the stu
dents, and lack of funds. The association
adopted the resolutions N !ukewarm way
The executive committee has been hold
ing OFT for the last week or so with a faint
hope Of bringing the university out all
right in the end, and IL was only after
X was seen thai everything was opTNoSing
that the Recommendation WAS made 20 drop
football. The same resolutions which abol-
ish football. also prohibit track athletics
meets. etc, in tie university until the as
ISOLATION has paid up all its debts. And so.
the college boys say, the L. OF w. Is prac-
ticaly dead letter as far as all athletics
ara concerned.
That athletics should be dropped SO sud
denly at the university for lack Of support,
the friends of the school think surprising.
Among the new students are many exper.-
enced players, among them Chestnut, late
OF the Puget Sound university, and fetch
er. late Of the Seattle high school. II IS
said To be a most conservative estifna e
that the number OF men who are acte 10
play football in the L. Of w. borders on
fifty. In fact, II is alleged. so far as mate
rial goes. the college has never been better
off. Unfortunately. most Of the material IS
new and has no college spirit. The passive
attitude Of the new students. Il y believed.
is indirectly the cause of football being
dead and buried at the chief educational III
st tuition of the state.
IT would almost seem. the old-time stu
dents say, that the glory of the university
on the gridjron ended with Jack Lindsay.
The number of men who have lately turn
ed out for practice seems 70 prove them
right. There were only seven in The col
lege. 1t is reported. who seemed 10 have
patriotism enough to come out They
we're Capt Larson. Hill. Chestnut. Reese,
Wright. Fletcher and Corhett. But heir
action had no influence on their fellow stu
dents; the desperate efforts of Manager
Corman to uphold the declining honor Of
the school seemed unavaEing.
The rise OF athletics began at the T. or
W. in the snring Of 1891. The first foot
ball team was organized In the fall Of
lSa9 Otto Ceilings was the first captain.
and was succeeded by ID. \. Ford in l&'i.
r. D. Nichols followed in 1894 He resign
ed and was succeeded by Martin Harrais.
who was reelected n 1879 In 1896, Jack
Lindsay who had entered college and play
ed on the team the prev.0ti year. was eject
ell captain and reelected in 1891, During
its who,e career. the L. OF w, football team
played It is estimated. thirty-four games.
winning fifteen. losing fifteen, and ueing
four It's glory * q thing of the past: a
fact which VII be regretted by every lover
OF the sport.