The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
IN TIE FOOTBALL SEASON.
Many q Fierce Struggle Nov Between
Rival Clubs on UPTOWN Lots.

This is the football season and the college
~elevens do not by any means m~Onopolize
that manly. II rough-and-tumble, sport.
On many a vacant lot uptown there may
be seen, on Sundays, games quite unher-
aided, between elevens OF local or neigh
borhood clubs. and they are witnessed 1t
may be. by a thousand spectators or more.
ali deeply Interested For the struggles
etween some of these elevens are as fierce
az those between elevens of far greater
renown.
These local elevens are miscellaneously
uniformed. Some of the players wear
Jackets and some sweaters: head pieces are
rare but not unknown, shin guards worn
by about a quarter Of the young men, foot
ball trousers being the item Of football
equipment most commonly seen here:
But with this rather imperfect equip
ment there il no lack of vigor and daring in
the PLAYING. They run into one another
and tackle and get tangled up in writhing
heaps Of twisting humanity, quite in the
most app oved fashion.
Now and then a man gets a sprained ankle.
or Is, IL may he, quite disabled, all In the
orthodox fashion. These players. stall
wart young men following one calling and
another for a living. mechanics and 80 on.
have a proper pride in their respective
elevens. and besides being able-bodied
voting citizens, they play To win while their
partisens hou encouragement.
Al some Of these game they stretch
ropes around the field 10 keep the crowd
on. and the players have full range They
wrigele and writ he In a heap on the ground,
and now and then somebody gets the ball
and makes n grand run that excites the
crowds enthusiasm. When somebody
heads the runner n az last and the coli
liding elaveus 20 down together, sliding
and rolling and scIr ing on the ground,
they send up from the turmoil a veritable
cloud Of dust.
The o~nlookers include not only friends
Of the e~leyens. but sightseer- from among
the casual pasSers-by, many 81 whom
stop for a moment, 10 remain a. Interested
spectators. For This H. No baby game.
but head earnest football,
And among those looking on there are
men 81 years, ~ well ~ younger men,
ana women az we'll ~, men. Then there
are small bpys. all deeply Interested; and
fur hat matter, there ARE her" infants ln
babv carriages. brirg h"'led on tins day
by father and mother in company
A. "A rlls, the boundary line - the field
az pretty vel, kept. but IN an luicrmi-~i"n
or upon Other uncsiun The Spectators
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out-t r-tcllrt line ADD starting with "a run
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