The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-23

fancy of students nor leave schedules
to be determined without regard to
the classroom and laboratory.
/ I'VE have on hand the serious ques-
| ton of football. There is doubt among
| intellingent people, and many of them
in sympathy with college athletics, as
to whether football is d proper college
game. If it makes a firm and acknow-
lodged place for itself, there will have
to be notifications. A mere show of
| physical force well directed by twenty
/ two exceptional physical giants is IL
Illustrative of nothing valuable to- COL
lege training. And if, in spite of pad
/ ding and safeguarding In every pos
/ sible way, and an attendant physi~
cian that show Of force Is to be at
i tended with startling percentage Of
serious or fatal accidents, 1t imposes a
| responsibility too great for colleges
to assume. 1t is well known that pres
ent day college football is a game by
| which the heavier and stronger side
wins, and the weight of men are. COM
pared in computing chances. Plays are
arranged to break through opposing
! lines by mere mule strength, without
regard to the consequences. The ball
must be advanced The whole team,
so far as 1t can be marshalled, is
/ played upon one or two men who are
discovered to show superiority of
strength or training, or equal weak
ness In notable game at Syracuse
| ii was agreed before the visiting team
| to hammer the captain ouf Of
! the game. This was done in
a brutal and cowardly manner
inrten minutes after the game begun.
| BY such rough and tumble plays at
another time the ball was stolen re-
peatedly. Men stood on the front
| bleachers and side lines and saw this
done. The referee evidently did not
see it, Those who did were told that il
| was not sportsmanlike to speak of II
or protest, though it was so shameless
| and glaring as to cause EXPLANATIONS
| from the spectators.
"Those who did not see 1t could not
| believe anything so dishonorable to
| college men.
Something must be done to save
the bones and the morals of football
men. The fault is charged to DISPOSE
tion to beat. That is folly. OF course
the game is played to beat, and to play
| 1t for any other purpose is ridiculous.
There must be q purpose to win, and
every point of the game must be used
to win. When 1t is played in any other
way 1t will cease to have any interest
for player or spectator. You might as
we'll reason that it is sinister to study
for the purpose of reciting!
Every point of the game, as we
have 1t, will be used to the utmost.
We therefore must have no plays that
| can be used brutally or dishonesty
Plays that MAIN or kill must be ELI
minated If we play the ball with the
| foot only. Plays that cover the ball sc
that 1t can be stolen Should be uncov-
cred, and a man guilty of such Of
| fence should be sent from the field
Ia dishonest man should be made
abhorrent, wherever he is found
| There must be ability enough in the
able football game.
"The battle RACES around football
| The other games do not appear to be
objectionable in themselves. Perhaps
the gross objection is found in the
spirit of rivalry created among stu
dents, alumni and the citizens of COL
lege towns. The country is secured
for athletes. They offer their quail
ties to the college for a consideration.
| T,,I nf
sent in to the university and it's con-
stituency, there are alumni with funds
to invest in specially promising ath-
Iletes. The presidents and the students
do not know it-openly. Pat asked
that he might have some brandy in
the water unbeknownst to himself! In
some colleges there. is a systematic
and carefully worked plan by alumni
or outside agents to secure athletes.
I In others students are sent out t
drum up recruits. And colleges have
been defeated in football and track
Iathletics by students enticed from
their own ranks or their preparatory
schools by offers of positions or
scholarships or money to help then
through college. Exceptional men,
whose poor scholarship has shut them
out of their college, whose record was
irreparable, find their way into col
leges where athletes are at premium
because of some sharp rivalry, and in
some strange way they devote still
more time to athletics and attain to a
passing scholarshipss0c occasionally two
or three men are turned down for fall