New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
RECORD or THE COLLEGES

dolleees nave bc,tcn Yale but Tor steady. success
I'M work yoar in AMI year o1i Yale certainty 'e-
serves the palm.
RECORD OF THE COLLEGES.
Since the Intcrcoloeiato Football Association Wa
established ,wenty-ono years ago Yale has been the
chauuion twelve or thirteen times but princeton
has been noble second.
I'p 10 1853 the record Of the co cGes in games
won was about even. Since that time Yale has
taken = decided squirt and has come out ahead in
Alexander Moffat, Princeton. 's3, was one OF NE
mos brilliant players n football seen on the
ded and he has been ever since untiring n his cf.
forts and energy 20 help tnrn oui winning fr'hce'o"
pdo %' showing " oo5a v'F9 pk h9' "'3
OF Yale and Princeton In late years he lnVt'-
siy Of has cons to the aTonb
i>lten Harvard repeatedly. Last FAY II was gen
eay conceded that fleh had T no op
strongest on the GridiIon' tnonen nau "o ,I
ponuniry Of showrs it, pTo"eS+ aga'n no mean
opponent for he others Just named who are fr re-
qnently called the ZIG Four.' But In th1
ST T3%f b Snq sa monc cs" in oobal sss and
the tales Of the fierce battles fought in those years
VII 30 Lhgnd tJ1 GSWr mg 10 come
OF the individual men that won renoWn EYER
4ojp'd +" cnsch almost every Yale team since his
day Ray Tompklns was famous nlc quartz
yale bad Won the championsGD in 1876. Then
Princeton srurod and held il for four Years al%
champion in 1851 yieidine il W to Princeton only
I'm 1855 THAT was the memorable game AT Now
Haven in which up 10 the last i've minutes Of play
Ya" leading by score OF az soaI iGHin ~
,aughi ihe ban and made a marvellous Iun through
The wholo Yale eleven. planting IN" hal i1'I ,A,i
and the viotorolls Tiger cheer rang out That was
bitter blow for the New liav"i boys, IoI ."'s
were already leaving the fled with the victory az
Tie game between yale and Princeton in ~
resulted in a draw. Princeton retaining The utIc
4 Of champion hut in 1887 the famous Nalo tear,
OF which Harry" Beecher was quarterback and
CAPTAIN won from both Princeton and HarNard.
THAT year also Harvard beat Princeton Captain
Poe of Princeton turned The tables ON na'r INC
ncNt year. and sent out maenihcsn' eleven men
c1me Yale Victories for six years. Win IN" 'N-
ccn1n Of 1885 "hcn princeton came OH on r h,
. last year tho New-Haycn players for whom fl
measure of defeat had been predicted got sweet
A. between Yale and Harvard, Harvard never
"Rort' N0dcns team almost walked away WIN
the Yale hopes. Yale won 10y narrow margin ~
Cumnock ana his men from Harvard won 1,,. a
notable victory over Yale Him. Ice ,o ana RTd,gdy
1t was only a few weeks ago that Dean Wa com
f2 os5 G nH in R GST n R9r h D
year 1897. the Yale team. led ny captain Met IWnG
ever had defeated Harvard by q narrow margin.
ana yaic has never been beaten since that time by
her crimson opponents. though the draw at cam
bridge last fall was dangerously near il.
SMALLER COLLEGES To THE FRONT
Football experts predict that time goes on
the prestige that the four or five leading colleges
have enjoyed is bound fade. and this seems more
than likely when is noted the rapid advance that
Cornell West Point. Lafayette. Leigh. Carlisle.
Brown and some OF The other colleges hay" made
recently. \ few years ago the second or practice
ceVcns at any Of the Rig -Four colleges could
have beaten the olevens representing the colleges
just named But now these colleges give the larger
plenty To do. and not infrcquently az IN" be
ginning of the season score a victory. Every one
remembers the magnificent work that the Drawn!
Indians from Carlisle have done and the very bad
have more than once given to Yale and Princeton.
This increase in the Of the lesser colleges
has been undoubtedly due 10 the adoption Of the
latest methods OF football science in vogue AZ the
big colleges. This adoption has been brought abou,
in two ways-hrst, through observation and imita
ton by the players themselves in the lesser col
leges. and second. by the coaching that graduates
from the larger colleges have given.
The elaborate system Of coaching that has sprung
up has brought down upon is head no end Of
has certainly obtained undue importance when
ohcr cocres sficr rnccrng thor nnder
take their imme date livelihood the work Of
coaching some college team at football. They have
work. and. though nobody asserts that the money l.
honestly earned there Is certainly question OF
taste 10 be considered. II nothing else.
CARRIED TO EXCEsS
The whole coaching system however is one Of
those exCrescenCes. as II were, that began a few
years ago to GROW up around the sport and tina
Indicated that In several directions It's growth was
morbid and unhealthy. In the first place. footba /.
by anything. II Is rough, but as II used 10 be
PLAYED ii was not too rough. As time went on.
however certain Objectionable features crept int"
the college game. The chief end began TO be not
10 secure some good. hardy exercise but 10 win
the desire TO win. The wish to oxccl is always 4
laudIble but for mpressionable college youths
most desired The desire beat the other fellow
led fairy soon TO extremely rough play. Smuggling
began TO be INDUCED ia frequently. II heavily
penazed. Of course by the judges. but there were
tnud UUDeTCut has been heard A
football field between colleges supposed TO
be engaged in friendly rivalry As further Dc
velopmen Of this some teams deliberately set to
work TO do up certain players on the opposing
ping ts men physically and then walking up the
field 10 an easy victory.
EVERYBODY WILD WITH EXCITEMENT
Co-ordinately with this interesting phase 81 the
game the necessity for harder and longer
training. 1t took picked men to withstand The on
slaught of a heavy team and a long period OF train
ing. So al several OF the colleges the captains set
their men AT work In the spring for the next fans
work. and also did some vigorous training during
me suinmer Then me hours Of training through
out the autumn itself were harder and longer.
Studies of the players began TO go ny the board,
whole coiege would be agog with excitement. Then
/ nndLN would arrive the day of the supreme test.
or Springfield. AS the case might be and there
await With bated breath the arrival IN the field OF
day. accompanied by trainload Of rubbers nurses.
surgeons, trainers coz ches and ,heeers OF various
kinds. There would. OF course. be "A crowd Of pro
fessional betting men on the field and excitement
would run high. The gate receipts would mount
| into the thousands of dollars Then would come the
! battle itself and after the first few minutes the
weaker players would be borne from the field hOrs
| de combat 'pummcllcd TO make Now-York hoii.
! day After the game the chances great thai
I the exubcrant or respondent youths would betako
! themselves to the theatre and make public nui-
! sanCes of themselves.
When football had reached the situation Just de
! scribed; and when the number OF players that were
seriously injured hogan 10 grow apace almost
| everybody connected Win the game realized that
/ II must be reformed This was about two years
ago. Public sentiment began to busy itself in tho
! matter, and the newspapers were full OF II. From
some quarters quite naturally the cry arose that
I the sport was brutal and degrading one and
| must be abandoned altogether Leycl-head men
! Knew better than this however. and they set "a
work to lop of the Objectionable features one bv
\ In the first place. II determined that ali
! NJ n IN he nIa ved rio