Arizona republican., 1903-09-23
TOUCHDOWN TIGE
lie Is in Grave Doubt About New
 Foot Bali Rules.

T see they've changed the football rules this year, said Touchdown Tige to me the other day. 1 was pretty busy. 1 too. my stenograrher waiting for me to fix up scme briefs. and there was a precious client waiting fer me in the next room. But Tige always overlook ed little things like that. and when he lit e fresh pipe and settled back in my wicker I knew that l had to go back to New Haven or be insulting. But such a trip with Tige 1 always consider pleasant, so, holding the s,enographer out cf the room to make explanations to my client, 1 rolled a cigarette and leaned back.
 "Walter Camp, they tell me, was at the head of the thing continued the old back, and SC it's not surprising. Walters a good fellow, but he always was improving. Now, too much i'm provement is d bad thing sometimes. and anyhow. I cant relish the thought of watching the game hashed up diff ferently from what we used to do it when l were callls.
 Il suppose some people would call me a moss back instead of an old full back because l cant hitch up with the new fangled ideas of the game. but seems to me this checkerboard will throw the old gridiron all out of kelter Now, you remember that day we play ed Harvard in '92. l never will forget it. The coach made me out an ass, and if l hadn't been playing d good game all season I would have been Q dead one with the bunch after that.
 You know it was old chappie' and all that sort of thing with the Harvard people, and when Dick Welles and l came out on the field ahead of the others 1 guess We looked a little rough Much to our surprise, we weren't so rough as welooked when we got against the men from Harvard. Well, you know what sort of interest attends Yale-H2rvard game, Bob. Everybody goes to sleep and the sand man does a mail order business If anybody ever went to sleep at a Yale Harvard game I'll give you my meal ticket.
 Just about the time things were get ting lCudest. coach tips it that we are to try the new revolving play. Thing was novel then. and first try was worth it's weight in gains. But the chappies got next after that, and the second at tempt was SO much more costly than our profits that the red ink was all over the right side of our ledger, l was sore, and whispered to the quarter that we'd ought to kick. He gave the signal, and when the coach heard it. he let out a scream like a drowning man. Too late. Up at the line they held the Chappies back while I buried by No. F into the hogs hide. Away she flew a good six ty, with the crowd yelling like mad.
 Well. Harvard carried it back about hal Ii il-a of Anthony Waynes. Then it was ours a socr fifty from the posts, and net q score nung up for either side. It was well along in the afternoon, too.
 Then imagine our horror when the coach tipped of that nasty, easy, re- velving swing that the Chappies all knew about now. Oh, l was sore. I knew it was all up with us if We tried it, and 1 with the ball. It would ruin me. l felt like tearing off my Y But rather than be a piller. I'd take a- whirl.
 Well. what could We do? You re- member 1 shot up as fast as these two would carry me but they looked like Hermis trailing after McChesney. Why. that Pet Giant from Cambridge butted the thing out of my arm before l knew it was there. and with the squad around no one could see how it was done. The crowd thought I had fumbled it, like the oleo-fnger, and l turned as red as the crimson on the side lines. Fet Giant was too slow for Dick Welles (odd how that name always goes with something in a hurry), and q big drop kick just over the Giants noodle sem the thing between the posts. Oh, what roar. The crowd went daffy. They focked over the gridiron like a horde of i5rasshoppers on Salina, kas., corn field during August, and there Was no more football (eXcept the incidental hind) until everybody who wash m trainng was down and out.
 Well. ten minutes more and you re member Harvard had the ball down our way. Rut the whistle, that welcome, glorious. neVcr-to- be forgotten shrlll which ended our anxiety. sent the Chappies to their shower baths like nerd of ducks.
 "Now, Ecb, I don't know just how good your recolleCtor is this afternoon, and mayhc that herd ot ducks is ward leave that chilly arena. with Dick Weiles a Erinning ike Yellow Kid after en- take my affidavit that you've seen g herd with Web-feet.
 But, you know, I don't believe in lynching man without a trial, even in Kentucky, so I'll wait and see a game on this new waffle pan before l send in my application for membership to the pounders' union"