Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-12-25
THE GLORIOUS FOOTBALL SEASON
Is HERE.

season. EOOLDa1l is a grand OLD game,
the most popular one in America to-
day. Asasportit claims many features.
Sometimes a single game will claim no
less than bushel of features, and we
have seem football games where you
could go out and gather up market
basletful Of features after the very
first riot.
Football in this country was origin
ally Waged only among our university
and college students. But a few years
ago some one made the discovery
that, strange though it might seem,
the game could really be played with
out the aid of college education, and
since that time it has spread rapidly.
Persons with no knowledge whatever
Of the classics have taken up the game
with surprising success, and there is
now hardly village in America that
does not muster out football team
every autumn.
Tt must be admitted, however, that
the game, as played at the colleges,
is of much higher standard than that
played elsewhere. The college man
plays better game all the way
through than the man who has never
matriculated in any educational in
stitution. Take the man who has never
been to college, and the first time he
gets an ear yanked off in a game of
football he will stop right then and
there and demand it back before 60
ing on with the game, but the college
man, with his superior knowledge of
Greek, will pay no attention to it what
ever. The player who has never had
the advantages of a college education
becomes discourage and disheartened
easily and will sometimes drop out Of
a game entirely upon the loss of an
arm or nose, but the college, man,
with his more cultivated mind and his
more cultured growth of hair, will
keep right on as though nothing what
ever had happened.
But a game of football, whether
played with all the reckless abandon
that comes with higher education or
whether played with the caution of
those whose knowledge of ancient lit
erature and the higher mathematics is
more limited is most thrilling and
interesting sight
The game Of football is played by
II players on each side. The ball is
first placed in the center Of two lines.
One of the center rushes then snaps
it back to the quarterback, who de-
livers it to one of the halfbachs, who
deposits it under one of his arms and
runs down the field until he is met and
assaulted by one or more Of the play
ers of the other team.
Then the two sides come together
and there are II distinct cases of
assault and battery.
This is called a scrimmage. After
the first scrimmage or massacre is
over the injured players are removed
from the feldl new ones are substitute
ed and the two sides line up for an
other violation of the disorderly con-
duct ordinance.
The rules of the game are simple,
and very good idea Of them can be
cleaned from the current newspaper
reports of the contests.
"What was by far the most scholarly
game of football ever played on the
university campus was pulled off yes
terday afternoon before six acres of
frenzied spectators who zip-boom-
baad and swore to themselves in the
dead languages from the time the
first blow was struck till the last one
was received 1t was close game
throughout and not till the last scrim-
mage was over and the fragments OF
the last player had been removed was
the outcome of the contest known. 1t
finally resulted in a victory for the
home players in point of scores, al
though the visitors got little the bet
ter of us in the number OF casualties.
''After the game one set of false
teeth, three warts, one ear, one pair of
eyebrows. and the west half of bay
mustache and two scalp-locks were
found on the field. They have not yet
been identified or called for by the
owners.
1.-The first scuff1e resulted in gain
for the visitors and was as beautiful
a. sight as the most highly cultured
football enthusiast could demand.
The disturbance lasted several mo-
ments, during which time the air was
full of science and misplaced features.
HaIfback Smith, of the local team.
had the honor of losing three teeth,
for which he bowed modestly to the
enthusiastic applause of his admirers.
For an encore he had two shocks of
hair pulled out by the roots in the next
tussle.
''The local II got possession of
the ball during the third round. Half
back Brown, with a player hanging to
each leg and wearing three others
around his neck, made sensational
run and got within short distance of
the goal line before he fell. The rest
of the first half consisted of series Of
brilliant and well rendered accidents
during which neither side was able to
score.
sGPCth teams went into the second