The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-10
SPORTS
CUT OUT TURKEY DAY
Chicago Student Council Starts Cru
SADIE Against Thanksgiving
Day Football Contests.
Recommend an Annual Holiday on
Date of Last Big Game ".@
of Year. ar u....%

Thanksgiving day is a day set aside for
prayer and Thanksgiving to the Oliver of all
good things, and not a day for punting the
pigskin and indulging in gridiron battles
that stir peoples blood SO that they almost
forget that they are living, not to speak OF
forgetting the things that htey are thank-
full for according to the junior college
council of the University CT Chicago. The
midway student council is urging strongly
the abolition of the annual Thanksgiving
day football game after next year, and
President Harper will soon be called upon
to decide the question of right or wrong In
holding football games on this big annual
holiday.
Formal resolutions wer passed yesterday
at the regular meeting Of the council,
which call for the abolition Of the annual
Thanksgiving Day game after next year,
and request that the university set aside
O special holiday for the big game of the
gear. The resolutions will be sent to the
senior college council, the graduate coun-
ell. the athletic board, and President
Harper. After much debate, the follow
ing resolution was adopted
Resolved, that hereafter, excepting
next year no football game be played on
Thanksgiving day at the university of
Chicago, but that a special holiday be
given the university, to witness the last
game of the year.
Many reasons are urged for this radical
change in the policy of the University Of
Chicago department of athletisc. which
has been accustomed to hold big annual
holiday Thanksgiving day game ever since
the new university was founded. A storm
Of protest is expected to come from many
friends of the Midway school, who favor
the turkey day game, but 1t is expected the
clergy and some of the orthodox friends
Of the university will praise this step Of
the student council and do all they can to
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football game Of the season on this day for
prayer.
John r. Richards. captain of the '95
and 90 Wisconsin football teams. in
communication to the college paper the
Cardinal. calls attention to the needs Of
Wisconsin to keep from becoming sec
ond-rater. After stating that his opinion
Is formed from long distance he says,
1T certainly looks to man up a tree
as if the whole Wisconsin outfit let down
after the Michigan game. I don't mean
to say that the men on the team lack
nerve or quit while under fire. They have
no such reputation. but interest in the
season. and determination to win. seemed
to ooze out of the whole squad, from
coaches to rooters. after Michigan beat
US. The material looked fine to me. and
with the proper spirit all the season the
team should have won from both the
teams that beat after Nov. L."
DR.. G. NJ. HOLSTER is to be relieved not
only from his position Of purple football
coach. but is to be forced out Of all con-
nection with Northwestern athletics This
is the latest development In the plans of
the alumnus body Of the institution, and
was learned last night from the chairman
of the athletic board Of control, in the
r. hands Of which committee the fate, OF
- I1ollister now rests -
the ,,oeatiner of the ho,} ri ~ control
which occurs next Friday, HOLSTERS ser
vices as athletic, director will probably be
terminated along with his retirement as
football and baseball coach.
surgical operation for the relief Of Charles
Shedd left end on the Nebraska university foot
ball eleven. was performed at a Lincoln hospital
shedd was injured in the game against the
Haskell Indians, Nov. 1. sustaining a bruise in
the groin The surgeons decided that an alb
rect but the result of the operation is in doubt
from the fear that the abscess may be tubercu-
lar, in which event Shedds chances slim.
Anthropometrcal measurements taken by the
special doctor at the university show that Shedd
the most perfectly developed individual in
the school. His weight was IT'S pounds, but he
has now wasted away until he weighs less than
100. The injured player was permitted to wit
ness the Thanksgiving game between Nebraska
lines. swathed In heavy blankets and resting in
an nvalid's chair.
After the game he had relapse and his ply
sicianse have had their misgvings concerning his
case for several days.
At meeting of the Milwaukee school board
last night, Director Jeremiah Quin introduced
resolution denounclng in severe terms the game
Of football The preamble reviews the many
casualties Of the past season and sets forth the
fact that the high schools the feeders Of the
university football teams. and continues:
Resolved, BY the board of school directors o.
Milwaukee, that the game of football as now
played is dangerous to life and limb and SHOULD
be suppressed.
Resolved further. That the principals OF al
public schools in this city hereby directe,
to discountenance the organization of football
teams by their pupils"
The resolution was referred to the committee
rules.
A. G. Abbott. Wisconsins speedy end, wa
yesterday afternoon elected captain Of mex
years varsity football team.