Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-14

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ls FOOTBALL REFLECTIONS. +
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The approaching foot ball season Of
fers great opportunities to Iowa teams.
Meyer before have 50 many games been
scheduled with the leading exponentsg
or the autumnal sport in adjoining
states. Ames. Iowa, Drake and Grin
nell will have, all told, no less than ten
games with the universities OF Chicago,
Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, North
western and Minnesota II Iowa foot
I:ballshas never been tested before 1t cer-s
1tainly will be this fall. The most opti-.
lmistic hope, naturally, that the Hawk
| eye elevens will gobble the lions share
OF the contests and thus place foot ball
lon higher plane than ever In this
state.
1t Is not to be forgotten, however,
that the greatest victory Iowa schools
can win this fall Is ethical rather than
athletic. All devotees OF the sport will
be delighted to know that the differ
ences existing last fall between Drake
ion the one hand and Iowa, Ames and
Grinnell on the other have been AMIGA
bly, adjusted and that the four schools
will meet on the gridiron this fall. The
mere playing of games, however, will.
be of little consequence IL the larger
ends OF true sport are ignored 1t res
mains to be seen whether animositiess
are to be forgotten the athletic hatchet9
buried and that friendly spirit devel-
oped which alone can assure the great
est good from athletics With all its
inherent brutality there is little doubt
that prize fighting would have legal
sanction in many places today where 1t
lis forbidden had the members of the
! profession" toted more fairly with the.
4 1ublic and with each other. Little in
Intercollegiate rows will not give foot ball
q speedy death, but they certainly will
not stimulate public patronage. The
foot ball enthusiast no matter how
\ partisan. likes to gee games that are
full of hard. desperate playing, but he
prefers the reckless abandon that at
taches to college loyalty rather than
that developed thru hatred of a rival.
The greatest opportunity Iowa teams
have this fall is not in defeating the
universities Of adjoining states, but in
Iconducting the sport at home on
sportsman-like, manly basis. The stu
alton Is up to- Iowa, Ames. Drake
and Grinneu.
The term hard luck story. is so.
lclosely linked to athletic nomenclature,
and to that Of foot bail in particular,
that the average reader requires no ex-
Iplanation of its meaning. This partic-
ular department OF foot ball policy is
conceded to have been conceived at
| Yale. For years the foot ball public
was moved to compassion by the pitia-
BILE tales e,nanating from New Haven
just preceding the annual contests OF
the Sons of Eli with Princeton and Har-s
ward. Poor old Yale was said to be
in fearfully dilapidated condition and
the coaches We're well-nigh Respondent
over the prospects The public was
slow in solving the hard-luck story, but
llatterly 1t is safe to say little depend
Ience is placed on 1t. Iowa schools have
not been free from this Indulgence OF
res mt years, and the Iowa public has
not infrequently been grllled by just
such reports. Hard-luck stories proba-
4 bly, do little harm in ithemselves.-in3
fact are hardly worthy Of much
thought. Nowt that they are better I'M
Iderstood and the asininity of them bet
ter appreciated it is proba BILE that they
will die a natural death within few
years. They no longer deceive, either
the public or the athletic opponents.
The frequent injuries and occasional
fatalities resulting from foot ball,
I5doubtless, have done more to incur pub
! lie opposition to the sport than all else
| Newspapers never fail to report a fa-e
tally or the fracture of a bone, while
the long list of substitutes played in
some of the large eastern games has
convinced many a layman that the
sport can not be other than brutal; and
such 1t certainly is when played with
out proper restrictions Happily, wise
llathletic administration within recent
years has placed an entirely different
aspect on this phase of the problem.
| No longer is the weak and sickly but
ambitious youth permitted to enter foot
| ball. AT all colleges he is obliged to
\ pass a physical examination under a
lcompetent physician and is constantly
under the eye of a trainer a bit Of his
tory along this line may be of interest.
Last year Yale played the Harvard and
Princeton games without retiring a
man on account of injuries. Harvard
was almost equally fortunate. Chicago
passed safely thru the Cornell and
pennsylvania games without playing
a substitute, while at home the athletes
from Iowa City played the heaviest
schedule ever undertaken by an Iowa
lteam and came thru the season with
tout a single serious injury. Probably
mo school In the state has been more
unfortunate In the matter Of injuries
than Grinneil. This is natural from the
fact that her men are lighter than those
of most opposing teams. Yet. last fall,
under the care Of a skillful professional
trainer it is well known that the only
three men on the eleven who sustained
4 injuries were those who refused to fol-.
low the trainers advice; their injuries
were simply sprained ankles that
mended in q few days and gave them.
good service for the balance of the sea-
ison. And the fact should not be over
hooked that young Stephenson. who met
an untimely death in a class game at
Iowa City. played in the absence of
DR.. Knipe from the university and in.
1.-THE face OF his specific injunction to
keep out Of the contest. Iowa teams
| have never received better physical
training than at the present and II they