The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-07

FOOTBALL ARMOR
LATEST WRINKLE
Boulder UniVersity's Scheme
to Disable Players.
DISCOVERED AFTER GAME
STUDENTS CLAD IN SHEET
STEEL USE UP D. A. C. MEN.
= ooTBALL ARMoR is the latest de.

OOTBALL ARMOR is the latest de-
vice invented for the purpose of
knocking out the opposing play
ers- 1t has been tried and found very
ehective in every way. Inserted in a
padded suit so as not to show from
the outside, IL has done all that was
claimed for IL by its inventor-that is,
quickly disabling the players of the OPP
posing teams.
This newest wrinkle in football was
worn by the Boulder university OF Col
orado in game against the D. a. C.'s
OF Denver on Thanksgiving day, ac-
cording 10 all reports. The suits worn
Dy the university boys were secured
after the game, and the cause OF many
disabled players IN the Denver team
was easily explained. Immediately
after the contest the Boulder players
retired to the y. A. c. clubhouse to don
their street clothes leaving their foot
hall paraDhernalia to be shipped to
them at Boulder
1t was then that the ianitor of the
D. A. {. club made the startling dis
coVery IN handling the uniforms he
noticed that they were heavier than
those used by his own team, and upon
opening a jacket discovered a sheet
steel breast plate. Further investiga-
ton found steel shoulder pads and
steel plates running down the trouser
legs.
a photograph of the find was taken
before the suits were sent home, and
tnen Followed an accusation through
the papers, that could not be answered
All the teams of Colorado were very
much incensed over the story and
there is some talk of severing athletic
connections with the Boulder uni
versity- The discovery of the steel
plates calls to mind a trick played on
the Yale team by Harvard in the olden
times.
One of the oldest, and one of the dis
putes that still fingers in the minds
or the older generation of gridiron men,
Is the creased suit deal which the Har-
ward boys gave Yale in the notorious
Springfield game. The sons of Eli were
booked as sure winners. and even the
stanchest Johnny HarVards trembled
IN their boots. Bert Waters was on the
crimson eleven then. and it is gener-
ally attributed to his ingenuity that the
plan was pulled off. Waters had every
man measured for a brand new
leather suit. These came at about $50
throw. but expenses cut no ice if the
Ellis could be licked.
The whole matter was kept a secret.
and when the game was finally called
every crimson player appeared in his
new leather suit, completely creased
from head to toe This was certainly
new one on old Yale. and the way
they missed tackles on those greasy
Johnny Harvards cost the blue the
game by twelve points. The Harvard
crowd were severely reprimanded. and
st the next meeting of the rules com
mlttee the clause referring TO greasy
substances was added.
The most sensational case of iron
cleats or shields of any kind being used
to work personal injury, outside of the
present Boulder affair, was at Kansas
university in 1898. Rily Woodruff the
dirtiest player that ever donned the
coiors of old Penn, was coaching. and
In order to improve the chances of
winning from Nebraska he had iron
straps tackled across the inside of the
knee and thigh pads of the trousers.
so that when the knee was thrown into
PLAYER his chances Of going out were
greatly improved. These cleats were
found after the game, and came near
costing the Jayhawkers their athletic
relations with every school OF standing
In the west Woodruff was dismissed
from the university and his connection
was ruined forever with college ath-
ietics